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The Lockout Stereotypes project developed by the Art Media Events Studio Association, together with its partners FIKSDAL DANS Foundation (Oslo) and the 4 Culture Association (Bucharest), in collaboration with the Prahova County Art Museum "Ion Ionescu-Quintus", "Radu Stanian" Gymnasium School No. 19, St. Andrew the Apostle High School in Ploiesti, addresses issues of a discriminatory nature for the target group - 35 girls/women who are double discriminated (on ethnic and gender grounds). Aged 12-25 years, they will be involved in specially designed cultural activities that lead to the enhancement and knowledge of Roma culture. The project will focus on the interdisciplinary approach (visual arts exhibition, guided tours, debates, productions and performing arts workshops) from a sociological, historical point of view, in order to better understand the phenomenon of social discrimination of Roma girls/women. The project will present examples of Roma women who modernize, give up traditional dress, emancipate themselves, practicing noble trades, continuing to cultivate their roots. These attitudes of Roma girls/women will be discussed and debated in the exhibition, workshops, productions and in the good practice toolkit. The project includes innovative curatorial and production practices and bilateral cooperation, proposes activities of cultural education, research and artistic production with the role of empowerment/increase of public awareness, self-confidence and self-esteem, as well as new cultural products, picture book publishing, Romani literature, objects of creative design, with a positive impact precisely through their non-conformist manner of expression and debate. Thus, the project will promote, through dedicated campaigns, the diversity and traditions of Roma culture, both among the community and to a wide audience of Roma and non-Roma, from Romania and Norway.