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Balatonlelle, Hungary

Description:

In 2009, DNAWORKS, the parent organization for HHTI, traveled to Hungary for the first year of what would become a multi-year collaboration with the Regional English Language Office of the US Embassy in Budapest. For three years, Daniel Banks and DNAWORKS Co-Director Adam McKinney have led workshops based on the HHTI methodology at the Roma and Friends Camp in Balatonlelle, assisted in 2010 and 2011 by HHTI core member Christopher Rivas. For the past two years, they have also led an annual teacher-training workshop with the teachers of the campers, based in critical pedagogy and alternative modes of engaging youth in the classroom.

The workshops have focused on building bridges between cultures and encouraging youth to step into leadership roles. Each workshop included skill-building and theatre games, leading up to a final performance. For the first two years, the final performance consisted of a devised sung hook created by the youth, responding to the question, “What would you like to say to the world?” The first two years’ hooks were: “Wake, wake, wake up the world/Peace, peace, peace for the world/Wake, wake, wake up the world/And save the world” and “Peace, strength, determination and love.” The hooks were interspersed with the participants’ own poetry and raps. The 2011 workshop resulted in a dramatized presentation of Roma folk tales.

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For more information check out the following links:

  • VIDEO CLIP: Roma and Friends Camp 2010
  • “Roma and Friends Camp: A Week of Building Tolerance”
  • “Embassy English Language Summer Camps”

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