Project Expectations

BETTER BEFORE: A teenage-made project about the realities of young generation.

We are a group of Lithuanian students from Vilnius Vasily Kachialov gymnasium, who have come together to show the realities of teenagers' life by artistic means. We are committed to empowering young people to have an open mind to new ideas, find their voice to talk about problems and how to tackle them. We want to change the mainstream view society has on young generation, bring awareness and stimulate a change around the issue of young generation by providing a true picture of the reality we are discovering through this project.

Every day teenagers are struggling to get to grips with how they fit into the increasingly complex modern world — contending with things like intense pressure at school, bullying or problems at home, feeling of being different’ all while being bombarded by social media. The modern world has brought new pressures for children, tension in everyday life caused by great expectations from their parents, teachers and friends, worries about their responsibilities in the future, high cost of living and education all along with physiological aspects of maturing, disorders like anxiety, depression and loneliness became the most common problems teenagers are dealing nowadays. Our goal in this project is to study and investigate (by artistic means) which approaches can work best for young people and help them overcome the problems in a world of rapid change.

This project is not just to make youngsters to feel better in the short-term but to be better equipped for later in life.