[Nettime-nl] art project rotterdam

["rini hartman" <rini@paradigmshift.nl>]

ter info..

ciao

rini hartman



Hello people,

  My name is erik and I join this list too.
Together with a collegue I am preparing a project which has taken place in
Rotterdam, Holland
and will be financed by the Europian Union.
  In this project we use art as a social application. I will explain;

  The project will be in a youth-centre in Rotterdam. There will be
youngsters from England, Marocco, Turkey, France and the local youth of
Rotterdam. There will be about 60,70 young people.
And there will be groupleaders from the different countries. All the
youngsters are from poor
neighbourhouds. The most of the dutch youngsters are immigrant-youth.

  We are going to work with 'the dreamfactory'. This is a method in
which
different disciplines
  of art are used . The youngsters can use a medium ( for example film, or
painting), in which
  they are going to imagine what their dream is in life . We also going to
have a dialogue
  with them about this ( and maybe start with a process, and maybe we are
going to work with this
  afterwards, but it's now to early to talk about this).

   We are looking for people who are working in arts, and want to give
these
workshops.
  We want people who had finished an art-study or working professional in
this field.
  For the other aspects there are social-workers there.
  We can not pay you, unfortunately. Of course the materials will be paid,
and if you come from Holland the travel costs were paid. If you come from
abrought, we cannot pay your flight but you can have a cheap holiday
because
I think food and the accomodation to sleep is free.

  You can also network, make publicity for yourself in art and contribute
to
this project.

  you can give a reaction on my e-mailadresses;
  - e.simons_art@hotmail.com
  - erikvandeka@hotmail.com

                         thanks for reading, bye.
                             i like to hear from you.




ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
a belief in cultural, creative and integral expression as a means to
affecting deep and lasting social change

Art for Social Change is creative expression that emerges from artists
to improve individual and collective circumstances. Art for Social
Change involves an understanding of creation that includes not only
objects, but also geographic locations, groups of people and collective
consciousness.

Social artists are concerned with the many ways art can function, like
community development, the environment, education, intergenerational
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community regeneration and cultural citizenship. They are working in all
media, in all disciplines, in all locations.

Social artists are committed to bringing the arts to bear on the widest
possible range of social conditions and challenges facing our society.
These efforts seek to create social change at every level of society,
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At the heart of this social vision is a belief in cultural and creative
expression as a means to affecting deep and lasting social change. Art
becomes a political act, a conscious effort to facilitate and
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Art for Social Change is an expression of both individual and group
identity. All creative expression is an expression of both individual
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Through art, we can challenge many of our society's deepest assumptions,
such as the boundaries between self and other, 'artist' and
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'normal'
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If we want respect, love and beauty among us and others, we must
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