Project Act and React is an educational program first implemented in 2015. and in 2016. in partnership with Asociation PaRiter and financed by Ministery of social politics and youths. Student residents of Student home “Podmurvice” in Rijeka engaged in informal education and practical work to learn about civil society subjects such as human rights, peer violence, discrimination based on gender, sex, ethnicity, religious and sexual orientation, and all the questions insufficiently represented in the media and rarely in the center of contemporary Croatians’ society public forum.
During the regular six-month meetings, participants were encouraged to rethink and articulate attitudes towards problems and needs of their surroundings, and the creative expression in video form became a way of articulating the needs of a broader community they live in. In this way, the project significantly contributed to the increase in the active participation of youths in solving community problems.
Project Act and React 2 is realized in 2016. and in 2017. in partnership with Association PaRiter and financed by Ministery of social politics and youths. The project is a series of workshops that educated students from Student home “Podmurvice” in Rijeka on the questions of human rights, civil, and video activism.
The Foundation of this project is problematizing the subjects of citizen responsibility through working with different social groups and active responses to their problems through the medium of a documentary film, engaged, and experimental video. Creative expression in the form of video becomes a way of articulating the needs of a broader community in which young people live, and in this way, the project significantly contributes to the increase of active participation of youths in solving community problems.
Video works were created with collaboration and support of Emil Mandarić (Association of the blind of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County) and Elizabeta Vega (RiOrgone – Healthy Living Initiative):
