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What do you think about me? - Friendship through the arts is a project focused on the main aspects of integration through the arts - theater, music, dance. Through this project we are opening the gates for new audiences for complex stage performances based on diverse ethnic cultural heritage. It gives young people aged 13 to 17 years the opportunity to touch the culture and traditions of diverse ethnicities. In a joint initiative with local community centers and schools, through meetings and conversations in a family environment, young people will explore fairytales, legends, rituals of the communities. Under the guidance of specialists, they will process the collected material. A 20 minutes documentary about the research process will be created. It will offer an innovative portfolio with remarkable examples of the cultural heritage of ethnic groups. The best collected stories will be used for the script of a multi-layered stage product, intertwining theater, music and dance. The performance will reach the audience with diverse ethnic origin in four small settlements, outside municipal centers and one municipality with mixed ethnic population through traveling performances. Representatives of ethnic groups will be involved as active participants - both as young artists and as an audience. Target groups and active participants in the events will be 65 people - 8 artists, 27 children - participants in the show and 30 children from local ethnic communities. At the final stage, a final performance with a culinary and ethnographic exhibition will be organized. The five traveling performances and the final performance will attract about 1000 spectators. The project includes activities for creating a Strategy for attracting new audiences, a mentors'' FRIENDSHIP program for parents and children in overcoming differences through art, Program for training in specific skills of the team of Harlequin experts, cultural calendars of the partners as a tool for sustainability.