«Monologues across the Aegean Sea»

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School Networks, International Action Day, School Festival based on the book “Monologues across the Aegean Sea: the journey and dreams of unaccompanied refugee children.

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The idea:"Monologues across the Aegean Sea" is a collection of 28 testimonies of unaccompanied refugee children from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Morocco and Egypt. These children were forced to leave their homeland and arrived alone in Greece in 2015 and 2016, crossing the Aegean Sea.

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The workshops: The "Monologues across the Aegean Sea"
is the result of a series of workshops that took place in accommodation centres for unaccompanied refugee children in the
cities of Athens and Patras in Greece, from April to July 2016, as part of the project “It could be me - It could be you”, an awareness raising project on refugees and human rights using drama and theatre techniques. The project has been organized and implemented since 2015 in Greece by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) in partnership with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

The aim of the action "Monologues across the Aegean Sea" was to record the difficulties that these children had gone through, the challenges they still experience, and also, what these children love, hope and dream for.

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The publication: The 28 testimonies imprinted in the special-edition book "Monologues across the Aegean Sea: the
journey and dreams of unaccompanied refugee children", were published in Greek and in English in October 2016, by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network and UNHCR Greece. It is free for educational and artistic purposes (not for commercial use).

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"International Action Day 2017 "Monologues across the Aegean Sea"» 

 
The Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network in cooperation with the International Drama/Theatre & Education Association - IDEA and with the support of UNHCR Greece have set March 21st, 2017, as the International Action Day for the "Monologues across the Aegean Sea." Artistic events, performances, public readings, school festivals and youth events will take place around the world on the said date on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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​Inspiration 

​The book “Monologues across the Aegean Sea - The journey and dreams of unaccompanied refugee children”

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Actions 

Let's all of us be part of this commemoration, by pursuing initiatives and actions on March 21st, 2017. Let's try to make the voice of children, who have lost their childhood because of war, violence and poverty, to be heard loudly, through the voices of other young people.

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Let us share 

Let's share the results of our work, by sending translations of the monologues, photographs or video links to the dedicated platform.

 

We stand together #WithRefugees 

Now more than ever, we need to tell the world we stand #WithRefugees. Add you name now at WithRefugees.com

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Read more fore action: www.aegeanmonologues.theatroedu.gr

 

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