"Share Your Story!", an 8-day Youth Exchange, brought together youth from the Netherlands, Ukraine, Latvia, France, and Egypt to share their stories, experiences, and cultures. The Youth Exchange contributed to the improvement of the cultural awareness and expression competence of the participants. Throughout the project, they used various storytelling methods to share their personal stories and those of their communities. With this project, we created an environment that respects and celebrates cultural differences.

In 2018, we brought The Trade Tent to six public events, from a maritime festival in Brest and the Vrijland festival to community spaces in Amsterdam like the Vondelbunker and OCCII. The setup was simple and face-to-face: we offered a physical object, and in return, people gave us a story, a memory, or an experience they wanted to share. They left with the object as a prompt, along with an open invitation to pass the practice on by trading an object of their own for someone else’s story. Some of those conversations continued on Facebook.