The Awareness Raising Materials are part of Work Package 2 of our project produced by the youngsters to reach their peers and relevant stakeholders and aim to promote awareness and understanding among about the project’s themes. These materials include a variety of resources such as pdf’s, videos, and social media content designed to engage and inform. The goal is to foster a deeper comprehension of European memory, media literacy, and the artistic resistance movements across Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Germany. By disseminating these materials, we hope to inspire critical thinking and active participation in the preservation of democratic values and cultural heritage.
In our project proposal, we committed to creating 4 Awareness Raising Materials, but in reality, we produced 19 materials! If we take a closer look, we actually created many more materials, potentially reaching over 40 items, as you can see by exploring this page.
The Blue Pencil Project was a project implemented at the Agrupamento de Escolas de Esgueira. With students from pre-school and the first cycle of basic education, using only the color that was a symbol of censorship for 48 years (blue), they freely painted the aspects that most impressed the students.
Our objective was to promote knowledge of life in Portugal during the dictatorship. Express the acquired knowledge artistically. In total, we involved 432 students involved in the activity and produced 18 screens, so to speak, 18 Awareness Raising Materials.
Since the activity with the preschool and primary school students went very well, we decided to carry it out with the participants of the Transnational Capacity-Building Workshop, based on the same principle. Using only the color that symbolized censorship for 48 years (blue), the participants painted what freedom means to them.
In groups of 15 people, the participants had to divide different tasks among themselves so that each group could achieve the final result of a painting.
On the afternoon of April 25th, marking the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, participants of the Poetry of Resistance project formed groups of ten and took to the streets of Aveiro. They engaged with locals, asking poignant questions about the significance of April 25th, what life was like under dictatorship, the advancements brought by democracy and freedom, and how people resisted both then and now. Additionally, they inquired about the impact of artistic resistance movements. This immersive experience not only honored a pivotal moment in history but also fostered a deeper understanding of resistance and resilience through personal stories and reflections. They can see the result in this series of three videos that the young people produced.
In the follow-up to the Blue Pencil Project, the children from the 1st cycle (upon seeing the work of their older classmates, which you can find further down on this page) also wanted to read a poem. Here is the result!
Now we leave you with several of the recorded poems that make up the conclusion of our Awareness Raising Materials. We hope you visit the other pages of Work Package 2 (Online Written Articles and Podcasts) and, of course, the rest of our Poetry of Resistance website, which we made with a lot of love for you!
