Culture and Dialogue
Programme Area, Intercultural Dialogue
Where culture meets, understanding begins.
We use art, storytelling, theatre, and shared creative experiences to connect young people across cultures, generations, and borders. Culture is not decoration. It is how we understand each other.
Programme
Intercultural Dialogue
Region
Euro-Mediterranean
Audience
Youth, 18 to 35
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Cultural diversity is not a problem to be managed. It is a shared inheritance waiting to be heard. Our work creates the structured spaces where young people from different backgrounds meet not as strangers, but as collaborators.
Our Approach
How we work towards real dialogue
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Art as Method
Photography, film, writing, music, and theatre are not extras. They are our primary pedagogical tools. We use creative practice as a structured method for exploring identity, building empathy, and communicating across difference.
02
Structured Dialogue
Every programme brings together people from different backgrounds. Facilitated dialogue methods ensure that contact leads to genuine understanding, not just proximity. Conversations go beyond surface exchange into lived experience.
03
Participatory Creation
Participants are creators, not audiences. Every programme produces something tangible: an exhibition, a screening, a performance, a heritage archive. The creative process itself is where transformation happens.
Our Programmes
Six creative methods
Erasmus+ KA1
Cultural Youth Exchanges
Short-term mobility programmes that bring together young participants from across Europe and the southern Mediterranean for intensive creative residencies. Each exchange focuses on a shared theme such as identity, migration, heritage, or belonging.
European Solidarity Corps
Volunteering in Cultural Spaces
Long-term volunteering placements with cultural organisations, theatres, museums, and community arts centres. Volunteers contribute to programming while gaining direct experience in cultural facilitation and intercultural practice.
Storytelling & Encounters
Liqaa, Cross-Cultural Nights
A series of intercultural storytelling evenings, art workshops, and creative exhibitions bringing together young people from different cultural backgrounds. Each edition focuses on a shared theme. Each year culminates in a public exhibition.
Documentary & Visual
Voice and Image
A documentary storytelling programme where participants learn photography, short film production, and audio storytelling to document the cultural diversity of their own communities. No prior media experience required.
Heritage & Identity
Roots, Personal Heritage Projects
A heritage and identity programme for youth exploring their cultural roots through interviews with elders, visits to historical sites, and personal heritage projects. Each cycle produces a publicly archived collection of intergenerational stories.
Community Theatre
Youth Theatre, Performance for Dialogue
A community theatre programme using performance as a tool for social dialogue. Participants create short plays based on real community issues. Each cycle ends with a public performance followed by a facilitated audience discussion.
Who our work is for
Cultural and creative programming reaches its strongest impact when designed for young people who rarely get a place at the cultural table. We prioritise the following groups across our programmes.
Group 01
Young artists and creative practitioners
Group 02
Youth with no artistic background
Group 03
Mixed cross-cultural groups
Group 04
Migrant and diaspora communities
Group 05
Communities exploring heritage
Group 06
Youth workers and cultural facilitators
Build cultural bridges with us.
Whether you are a young creator, a cultural organisation, or a partner who believes in the power of art to bring people together, there is a place for you in this work.