{"id":224,"date":"2011-09-24T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-09-30T00:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:46:31","slug":"celebrating-europe-through-music-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2011\/09\/24\/celebrating-europe-through-music-and-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Europe through music and art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is\u00a0one <em>\u201clanguage\u201d<\/em> that can be understood by each human being, it is probably music.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-225\" style=\"border-style: initial;border-color: initial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5134535-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5134535-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5134535-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/P5134535.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Music can bring people together. So there was no question for AEGEE-D\u00fcsseldorf to take the fact that Europe\u00b4s largest song contest, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), organized in D\u00fcsseldorf, as an opportunity to organize it\u00b4s very first international event<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u201cYour Own Vision\u201d, \u00a012<sup>th<\/sup> to 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing people from all over Europe together to celebrate was one aim of the event <em>\u2013 the other was to share each others\u2019 visions of Europe, Challenge ourselves by decreasing the importance of stereotypes in addition to increase mutual understanding. Different workshops enabled the 28 participants from 11 different countries to do so \u2013<\/em> by means of Music, history, improvisation theatre and art. The art workshop was especially interesting to show what kind of ideas participants have about other countries, and this could helped foster lively discussions. Participants had to draw, paint and write their ideas of the countries of all participants on large sheets of paper sheets, and on the other side the citizens of those countries noted down their ideas of how they see their own country, an excerise that brought up many interesting results.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/247189_1990255283385_1453451458_2147344_4997128_n1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/247189_1990255283385_1453451458_2147344_4997128_n1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/247189_1990255283385_1453451458_2147344_4997128_n1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recognizing that challenge is the key to motivation, the event encouraged participants to present their own countries in the most creative and reflective way they thought possible. The energy and the passion of motivated youngsters committed to an idea, and the power of their actions is the perfect example of broadminded and creative citizens of Europe.<\/p>\n<p><em>written by Fabian Br\u00fcggemann, AEGEE D\u00fcsseldorf<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">If there is\u00a0one \u201clanguage\u201d that can be understood by each human being, it is probably music. Music can bring people together. So there was no question for AEGEE-D\u00fcsseldorf to take the fact that Europe\u00b4s largest song contest, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), organized in D\u00fcsseldorf, as an opportunity to organize it\u00b4s very first international event \u2013\u201cYour Own Vision\u201d, \u00a012th to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2011\/09\/24\/celebrating-europe-through-music-and-art\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}