Gender Equality Serbia Project #29346

With Education Against Violence Toward Girls

by Centar for girls

With Education Against Violence Toward Girls

Project Report | Mar 1, 2019
We are emotional creatures

By Marija Virijevic | Project Leader

Street action ,,Quiet cemetery"

In the past 3 months, we have been fighting against violence toward girls and women in various ways.

We had a street action with which we pointed out a large number of femicide in Serbia in 2018.
We were hanging out with 60 young people, future psychologists, from the Faculty of Philosophy in Nis. We talked about the Center for girls, feminist principles of work, SOS telephone and violence against women.
Through the theater, we brought the problem of violence against women closer to the audience, and in Vranje and Nis we performed in front 95 people the play "I am an emotional creature" written by Eve Ensler.
On February 14th we joined the global campaign "One billion raising" and danced against the violence with the song "Break the chain". On the same day, we performed reading performance of Vagina's monologues, for the 11. time wich over 50 people watched with attention.

Here's evaluaton of girl who particpiated in these forum theaters:

Before I participated in a forum theaters I was very scared of talking to unknown people and situations in which you should provide information that can affect someone and which are essentially important. I did not know how to transfer my knowledge in the right way and I was very scared of mistakes. And now I am afraid of mistakes, but I think that I changed, that I am now safer and that I have more confidence in myself that I can do it. I learned to communicate with people and highlight very important things in the way that would be closest to them. I think that the most important changes to me are actually to make me feel more freer and more capable. I feel that I matured in some my own way and I am satisfied with myself because I worked and participated in something that is very important for the people with whom you are doing it.

For more information you can follow us on our facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/CentarZaDevojke/

That's it. See you soon with new things.

Play ,,I am an emotional creature" in Vranje

Play ,,I am an emotional creature" in Nis

Center for girls on he Faculty of Philosophy

Performance - global campaign One billion raising

Reading performance of Vagina's monologues

Forum Theater

Permalink

Dec 3, 2018
With art and education against violence over girls

By Marija Virijevic | Project Leader

Rape is a crime without a cause.

Here's what Center for girls did in the last month.

We talk about ,,What is sexual harassment, where it is happening and how to protect yourself'', on TV.

Then we started online campaign “React to violence” on the social networks.

Campaign 16 days of activism we started in Leskovac with two workshops in one high school with 21 girl.

Here's some evaluatons of girls from these workshops:

I learned that alcohol and mental illness are just an excuse for violence, and that violence is only a choice of abusers.
I learned how to get out of violence and who can help me. And I liked being able to say my opinion, without someone mocks me.
I liked communication and the atmosphere on workshop. I've met the laws and whom I can address.

With activist-feminist theater of Center for girls we performed theatre play ''I emotional creature'' by Eve Ensler in front 120 high school girls and boys in, “School of textile and design”, in Leskovac.

We opened en exibition of work from our IV Feminist art colony in Cultural Center of Leskovac.

It was exibited 28 work by 12 different female artists from 3 countries (Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Croatia).

Also we did street performans at november 29 in Nis. On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, we reminded the citizens that is their duty to react. Over 1000 passers-by, citizens, as well as tourists saw our street action.

We stood on 3 locatons in Nis and held this mesages:

Rape is a crime without a cause.

Stop violence against girls/women.

React to violence.

See you soon with new things.

Theatre play ''I emotional creature'' - Eve Ensler

Workshop ''Prevention violence against girls''

Exibition of work from our IV Feminist art colony

We talk about "What is sexual harassment" on TV

Campaign "React to violence" on the social network

Permalink

Sep 4, 2018
4 report - Education against violence toward girls

By Marija Virijevic | Project Leader

Scene from forum theatre

The fourth report about activity on the project ,,Education against violence toward girls''

In last three months within of the project ,,Education against violence toward girls'' the activists of Center for Girls held 3 workshop and 6 forum theaters.

75 girls participated on wokrshops in Niš, Leskovac and Prokuplje. Some of the girls were shy at the beginning and didn't want to share their opinion with us, but shortly they start to actively participated in the workshop.

From the evaluation of the girls who passed the workshop you can see what they learned and what they liked:

Anyone can be a victim of a violence.
Bullies choose to be violent.
The victim is not guilty for the violence that happens to her.

Workshops were done in two high schools and one elementary. The workshops were led by Irena Zivkovic and Mila Stanojevic.

The acivists of Center for Girls, played 6 forums theaters which saw 310 people in 3 towns in 6 schools. Through the form of forum theater, as a means of social change, we had managed to get close the young people serious topics which are concerned with the problems that affect us all.

Pupils were very active in a discussion after every performance in every school. They asked, suggested and commented roles and their action. We discussed what kind prejudices people have about the girl who survived the violence, that jealousy isn't love and that violence isn't private thing. Most common questions were about:

why one of the characters didn't do more for her friend who were in violence,
why the other friend of the victim thought it doesn't concern her problems that victim had with boyfriend,
why victim didn't leave her boyfriend if he were violent to her.

A few girls in audience cried during the discussion. After every performance a few people from audience stayed after and talked to us about play.

Forum theaters were performed by Silvija Mihajlovic, Marija Virijevic, Marija Stojanovic and Tatjana NIkolic in 6 high schools.

Permalink

‹ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ›

About Project Reports

Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can recieve an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.