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MA Programme | Art for
Social Change | Open Source |
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ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE is an international programme which provides training and
opportunities for artists to work with children and young people at risk.
The programme was established in 1997 by the European Cultural Foundation with
two separate components: Play Against Violence for the region of South-Eastern
Europe and Art in Action for the Baltic States and Poland. The Red House Centre
for Culture and Debate is the Bulgarian Resource Centre of the programme.
The ten Resource Centres respectively from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia & Montenegro
and Poland have established good partnesrhip among themselves and are looking
forward to common projects while continuing their activities in the local
communities.
Since 2000, a total of 11 Bulgarian teams realized 33 Art for Social Change
projects, involving over 600 children from 17 institutions at 13 locations all
over the country.
There are several basic principles underlying the ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
programme and providing the general guidelines for its development. They are,
as follows:
ART has social impact by enabling and encouraging creativity while at the same
time reaching different types of audiences including socially disadvantaged
groups.
THE ARTIST, through his/her specific artistic activity aimed at developing of
the individual, the group and the community as a whole, as well as through
developing their creativity, is a unique agent of social and economic change.
This role of the artist should be acknowledged and supported by government and
institutions.
There should be a priority emphasis on COMMUNICATION, exchange of expertise and
collaboration between the non- governmental organisations and the state
institutions in the field of arts and the social sector and an equal access of
different forms of culture to financial and other support
Sustainable systems should be created which stimulate the creativity of all
participants in the process of implementing programmes for social INTEGRATION
by the means of the art.
The dynamics of the process shall be sustained through a free and fair exchange
of experience and through an exploration of the proper LANGUAGE OF THE
"ENCOUNTER".
For more information and contacts:
Art for Social Change
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
15, Ljuben Karavelov Str., 1142 Sofia
tel. / fax (02) 988 81 88 / 980 49 24
nneykov@redhouse-sofia.org
www.aschange.org
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July 11 (Friday), 2008, 7.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Art for Social Change and Transitional Spaces project present:
The Paper-clad Knight
Theory and Practice of the Transitional Space
book launch
Bilingual collection (in Bulgarian and in English) of texts telling the experience and the thoughts of participants in Transitional Spaces project during their work with groups of young people living in three social institutions in Sofia and homeless young people. A special book which finds personal words and feelings to describe the experience in order to be shared. A book worth having in your library. The collection comprises texts of Alexander Evtimov, Dr. David Ieroham, M.D., Dessislava Morozova, Georgi Kambourov, Ivan Nikolov, Irina Karakehayova, Nevena Borissova, Nikolay Bozhkov, Teodor Kotov, Tsvetelina Gospodinova, Tzvetelina Iossifova, Yanina Taneva and Yavor Kostov.
Transitional Spaces project works through artistic means and expressive methods with groups of adolescents from Homes for Children Deprived of Parental Care “Assen Zlatarov”, “P. R. Slaveykov” in Sofia, Home for Children Deprived of Parental Care “Hristo Botev”, Gorna Banya who are about to leave the institutions, and groups of homeless young people. Transitional Spaces introduces a pilot model of a novel practice of psycho-social support though artistic means.
With the support of MATRA KAP programme of Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Sofia.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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Listen to Children’s Dreams – You also help. Find how!
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November 7 (Wednesday)
2007
, 1.30 p.m.
Elhovo town, the Central Square (in good weather)
Elhovo town, Community Centre “Razvitie” (if raining)
Art for Social Change programme and the children of N. J. Vaptzarov Boarding School, Elhovo present:
Autumn Suns
pageant & open air show
The pageant starts from “N. J. Vaptzarov” Boarding School at 1.00 p.m., passes through the main street and finishes with a show at 1.30 p.m. in front of the municipality (in good weather) and in Tchitalishte “Razvitie” if it rains. For Saint Michael’s day and as a result of psycho-social work through arts with children and young people.
If you like to know more about what it means to live in social “Home” or about yourself please attend one of the three forthcoming public events! Coming soon: public events in Blagoevgrad on 11.11. and in Assenovgrad on 12.11.
The event is part of Gobul’s programme “Let’s Listen to the Children’s Dreams” that is developed in co-operation with the Bulgarian Charity Aid Foundation and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate.
Free entrance
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June 13 (Wednesday) 2007, 3.00-8.00 p.m.
Red hall, various spaces within the entire building
Art for Social Change and Transitional Spaces project present:
Transitional Spaces: On the Other Side of the River
experiential jam session
The transitional space as an in-between space. We walk along in order to reach elsewhere, to be able to look behind and see where else we have reached while something new is happening. The space we need in order to grow and to be sure that we are moving ahead. The measurer of our dreams, fantasies and desires. Our safety and the only way to express.
An experiential jam session intending to involve the visitors into an exploration of their own feelings and perceptions as part of the ‘transitional space’ we experience while growing up.
An improvised journey together with artists, musicians, theatre directors, psychologists, psychodrama therapists and the young people.
Free entrance
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May 10 (Thursday) 2007, 11.00 a.m. - opening
May 10-16, 2007, every day between 10.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m.
Reunited Youth Compound, Pernik
Day Youth Centre 16+, Reunited Youth Compound, Pernik and Transitional Spaces project of The Red House present:
Transitional Spaces – open doors for children and young people at risk
A Photodrama-exhibition based on the personal stories of some young people living in the street. Their life in desolate houses and sewerage shahs lays bare in front of the camera of Konstantin Banderov keeping their own stories and stylistics alive. The openning of the exhibition is followed by a discussion.
Transitional Spaces project is realized by the supported of MATRA KAP programme of Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Sofia.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 5 (Saturday)
2007
, 4.30 p.m.
Watch the documentary
Discovered Children, 27 min.
on NTV on Saturday, May 5 at 4.30 p.m.
Director and Cameraman – Ivan Nikolov oppn, Script – Ivan Nikolov, Alexandar Evtimov, Boriana Pandova, Music – Popara, Montage – Boriana Pandova
The film tells the story of the children from two social houses for children in Blagoevgrad and Veliko Tarnovo and a Boarding School in Elhovo during group work through artistic means (drama. drawing, music, dance, etc.) and expressive methods (psychodrama, sociodrama, group dynamics, etc.). It is part of the long-term social programme of GLOBUL Listen to Children’s Dreams and Art for Social Change initiative.
In Bulgarian.
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April 20-22, 2007
Pesha Nikolova hall
Art for Social Change and Transitional Spaces project present:
Forum Theatre Workshop with Iwan Brioc, Wales, UK
This workshop is an introduction to the main method in the armoury of the Theatre of the Oppressed, developed by Brazilian dramaturge Augusto Boal and used all over the world as a weapon against oppression. Forum Theatre is a way of staging the situations in which we feel (or have felt) that our capacity is being restricted or attacked by external forces – as an individual and as a community.
April 22 (Sunday), 6.00 p.m.
Forum Theatre Performance
The workshop is realized with the support of Biveda NGO for art and education.
Transitional Spaces project is realized by the supported of MATRA KAP programme of Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Sofia.
In English.
Invitations only (for the workshop)
Free entrance (for the performance)
workshop outline I Iwan Brioc - c.v.
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April 14 (Saturday) 2007, 3.00 - 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Art for Social Change and Transitional spaces project present:
Creative Therapy and Psychodrama in Work with Abused Children
public presentation and seminar of Ester Avnon, Israel
Ester Avnon is a psychodrama-therapist, psychodrama-supervisor, creative therapist, professor at Tel Aviv University.
The event is realized in collaboration with Act!nPlay
http://actinplay.cult.bg/
Transitional Spaces project is realized with the support of MATRA KAP programme of Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Sofia.
In English.
Invitations only
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March 23 (Friday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Transitional Spaces project presents:
The Art That Connects Us
working discussion
About the social responsibility of the arts. About the practice, advantages and difficulties of group work through arts with adolescents living in three social institutions who are supposed to leave them in the coming years, and young people living on the street. About the possibility to turn that practice into a social service.
With participation of representatives of state institutions, Homes for Children Deprived from Parental Care “Assen Zlatarov”, “Hristo Botev”, “P. R. Slaveykov”, Day Cetre “16+”, practitioners of the artistic psycho-social approaches, etc.
With the support of MATRA KAP programme of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Sofia.
Invitations only
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December 1 - 3, 9.30 a.m.-6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Art in Quest for Community seminar
International meeting of practitioners and researchers in the field of psycho-social support through creative means for youth at risk or in disadvantage. The participants exchange experience, theories and practical models for further development and support of socially engaged artistic practices that involve young people as equal partners in the creative processes thus pro-actively reaching out different community groups.
In collaboration with Goethe-Institute Sofia, with the support of Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Sponsored by Germany.
In English and Bulgarian, with translation.
From 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.: Only with previous registration
From 2.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.: Free entrance
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