During the implementation of the international Erasmus+ project "Build Up (Y)Our Future Through Arts", the first mobility in Poland became the creation of one huge puzzle.
Representatives from five countries: Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Portugal and Turkey participate in the partnership of this project sharing ideas and learning from each other. Countries with different traditions, work culture and practices, respecting each other's cultural diferences,
have set a common goal: to enable our youth to get to know other cultures, to be tolerant of their differences, to develop cultural dialogue, developing the intercultural awareness of all project participants. This is how the idea of "Puzzle" was born. After all, everyone of us is a piece of one huge puzzle that we have to assemble into a whole.
As soon as the threshold of the Przemysl II Lyceum in Poland was crossed by the project participants, the decorations of Puzzle pieces greeted them and accompanied in all mobility activities: during the dance lesson, a harmonious dance was created from individual steps, like small pieces of a puzzle; amazing works of art are sculpted from different elements in pottery workshops. Puzzle details played a particularly important role in the acting class, when they became the main element in conveying the meaning of human life. During the performance, the project participants used puzzle elements to illustrate the main stages of human life in order to emphasize the integrity of all human existence. The final chord was sounded during the painting session, when the project participants decorated individual pieces of the puzzle only with symbols specific to their cultures and created a seamless mosaic filled with vivid uniqueness from all the painting works. Finally, all the pieces of the puzzle were assembled into one beautiful work of art.
No matter how different we are, together we create a common picture of humanity.
Project coordinator Jūratė Pilsudskienė
