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Episode 4: “The future is us”

In this last episode, it is the young people of the Kourou Entonnoir Théâtre insertion programme who, with the collaboration of the Native Women Voices and Anne Pastor, have produced a radio documentary to bear witness to their dreams, their revolts and to build together a society that is less far from others.

“We are eleven young people from Kourou. We are between 17 and 23 years old.

We don’t come from the same neighbourhoods, from the same social backgrounds and don’t have the same culture. But this difference is our strength. What unites us is finding our professional path.

Thanks to the funnel theatre programme, we have gained confidence, we develop our abilities and we learn to adapt to each other, but also to the world around us.

Today, we work as a team and we are a supportive group.

Together, we have chosen a new mode of expression (far from social networks): radio documentaries… to address all generations, wherever they are.

It carries our dreams and hopes. It also symbolizes the first teaching received at the funnel: when you arrive in a new place, with people who don’t look like you, don’t try to play a role, just yourself to meet the other.

So let’s listen to us …. Let’s share our ideas… our differences too and respect each other because sometimes we feel that we are not recognised.

But the future is us

In this documentary, you will hear our voices with our singularities, our sincerity.

You will listen to our words and those of those who have told us their stories, such as Valentine Bonifacie, from the First Nations of French Guyana.

You will discover heroes and heroines of everyday life.

Like us, you will ask yourself questions about racism, sexuality and consent or gender stereotypes.

Learning from each other means changing your outlook.

Through all these encounters, we wanted to bear witness to our dreams, our revolts and bring our viewpoint to this society which does not listen to us, which does not understand us and which lacks tolerance towards us.

We don’t want to hear any more about this hopeless youth…

We want to change mentalities.

You can trust us…

We have so much to contribute: our will, our strength and our determination.

We want to fight for our future but also for French Guiana… this department that France forgets too often.

We are ready to demonstrate, as we will in 2018, to ensure that our rights are respected and that we are heard.

The future is us and despite the epidemic and an uncertain future.

Let’s not let ourselves go and let’s build together a future that resembles us.

The future is us: a documentary of the Entonnoir Théâtre directed by Malika, Axel, Lovensky, Gaelle, Karine, Esther, Wellicia, Sariena, Achille, Swan and West…with the support of l’Entonnoir theâtre, Anne Pastor, Bertrand Chaumeton, Garance Valet, Jalen de Triolet and Maurice de RKS.

Credit: Anne Pastor

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