North African Youth Exchange

Graffiti - Paris (Photo courtesy of Roland Castro)

The North African Youth Exchange will bring Toronto and Paris-based youth of North African descent together to explore their experiences of identity and immigration in a post 9-11-World. Directed by artistic director Christopher Morris, this project will be created over two creation workshops. The first creation workshop will take place in Paris, France in the summer of 2010. For three weeks, four Toronto youth will be billeted with the families of four Parisian youth. During this time, the French youth will share their culture, neighbourhood and city with the Canadian youth. Rehearsals will be led by Christopher Morris and two Human Cargo members, that will enable the youth to turn these experiences into theatre. The second creation workshop will take place in Toronto, Canada in the summer of 2011. For three weeks, four Parisian youth will be billeted with the families of the four Toronto youth. The same cultural and theatrical exchange will take place as did in Paris. By the end of the second workshop, the youth will have created a multi-lingual play that will premiere in Toronto in August, 2011. Following a week of performances in Toronto, it will then tour to Paris where it will run for a week. Participants for the North African Youth Exchange will be chosen in February, 2010. If you are a youth or organisation that’s interested in participating in this project, please contact us by email at info@humancargo.ca.