ACTIVITIES

Break the Fight® aims to prevent bullying and promote communal activities both in schools and during free time. The activities offer children and adolescents an opportunity to exercise, express themselves and succeed together. The activities also employ professional artists and experts in street culture, as well as create new business models that cut across arts, culture, youth work and schools.

The art activities offer children and adolescents opportunities to express themselves and strengthen their self-esteem through street culture and performing art. Break the Fight! art and culture activities that are implemented at schools and youth centres – breaking (exercise), rap lyrics, dj/beatboxing (music, language), graffiti (visual art) – create new physical and recreational experiences for pupils. Alongside the art and culture activities, bullying can be discussed and youth involvement can be strengthened.

BTF has served as the pioneer of the new Finnish model in the Break the Fight! BTF – An Opportunity to be Heard project funded by the Helsinki Culture and Leisure Committee. The project brought low threshold hip-hop activities for free to schools, youth centres, half public and public spaces in East Helsinki during 11/2018-05/2022.

We have expanded the range of BTF recreational activities, and offer schools multidisciplinary activities in visual arts, movies, animation, photography, dance, sports and music.

Break the Fight® art and culture business model includes professional stage performances, art mentoring, audience outreach work, art workshops and courses which the adolescents get to experience and work on together with art and hip-hop-culture professionals.

The art activities give an artistic form to adolescent thoughts and opinions under professional guidance.

The core operations of BTF - Hybrid Theater consist of dance, professional performing arts, art mentoring, touring and audience outreach work. The company also develops BTF - art business models, such as the new BTF - Hybrid Theatre model. BTF - Hybrid Theater, previously named Arja Tiili Dance Company, has been working professionally since 2007. For more information about previous art activities, please see: www.arjatiili.fi.

The new Art Youth Work model was built for applying the Break the Fight® activities to school youth work. We offer art youth work training for municipal youth workers as well as art and community educators.

Break the Fight Oy (Ltd) is a social enterprise that does not distribute dividends. The main activities of the enterprise are training and recreational services, professional stage performing art, as well as trademark and license management. Activities are politically and religiously unaffiliated.