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La Xixa - Creative Social Innovation is a non-profit organization created in 2010, oriented towards the research, development and multiplication of theatrical tools and popular education as a means of social transformation. La Xixa carries out workshops for diverse groups, training of trainers and artistic actions at local and international level around five main axes:
- Coexistence and active citizenship
- Interculturality, racism, xenophobia and social inclusion
- Education, school dropout, prevention of risky behaviours among young people
- Gender, equality policies and sexual diversity
- Heritage, sustainability and the fight against climate change
The mission of La Xixa Teatre is to facilitate the creation of empowerment spaces through Participatory Methodologies, Artistic Mediation, Process-Oriented Psychology and the Theatre of the Oppressed to generate processes of individual and collective transformation.
La Xixa, Spanish NGO, has been working on a project related to female empowerment “Improved empowerment of women and the fight against gender violence in the Ziguinchor region, Senegal” implemented in 9 localities in the Bignona and Ziguinchor departments (Enampore, Niassia, Boutapa Camaracounda, Adéane, Ziguinchor, Djinaki, Djibidione, Niamone and Coubalane) in the Ziguinchor region of Senegal.
La Xixa Teatre Association is a non-profit organisation created in 2010, oriented towards the research, development and multiplication of theatrical tools and popular education as a means of social transformation. It carries out workshops for diverse groups, training of trainers and artistic actions at local and international level around five main axes: (1) Coexistence and active citizenship, (2) Interculturality, racism, xenophobia and social inclusion, (3) Education, school dropout, prevention of risky behaviours among young people, (4) Gender, equality policies and sexual diversity and (5) Heritage, sustainability
and the fight against climate change. Some of the specific strengths and capacities of La Xixa in the field of gender are: the capacity to mobilise and use theatre, art and creative methods in order to tackle the subjects of gender equality and female career development and active participation in social expertise, the network and expertise in organising and hosting local, regional and international events and strong research and action in developing new innovative methodologies to tackle these subjects. It has in recent years got involved on different projects: CERV project on promotion of female equality (FEM-ABLE) focusing on equal participation of women in politics; KA2 project INCLUDED regarding unbiased sexual and emotional education in school education and the KA2 project BEYOND GENDER exploring the subject of gender through creative intergenerational and intercultural activities.
