Intimate Bridges: Towards A Participatory Model for Intercultural Dialogue Through Performing Arts - Monitoring the Project

Can theatre and art be tools for well-being and social develop - ment? Can they help us somehow to better see the problems and minorities of European and non-European society from a different perspective? What role can they play in the com - plex relationship that has developed in recent years between local citizens and migrants and refugees 1 ? How can they make it better, more sensitive, more comfortable on both sides, over - coming often harmful western logics? Can they somehow an - ticipate this relationship in a more comfortable space, that of a participatory theatre workshop? More precisely, can partici - patory theatre offer an alternative language to that of bureau - cracy, political slogans and cultural stereotypes? Can it offer a glimpse of an alternative way of life that can subsequently modify that political and cultural language? These are just some of the questions the Creative Europe pro - ject Intimate Bridges aimed to answer.