Mirope Newsletter N_1

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MIRRORING EUROPE: MIROPE

MAY 2011 1

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ear friends, Welcome to the first issue of “MIROPE Newsletter�, the electronic Newsletter about the updates of MIROPE project.

This newsletter aims to disseminate activities and stimulate new ideas in the professional community, on the role of the art within education, focus on EUROPEAN IDENTITY, tolerance, mutual understanding and solidarity throughout creativity and European history. In this issue you will find new ideas and activities, news related to art-therapy and vocational education, project updates and even more!

This time we also would like to invite you to visit our exhibitions, which will take place in Zamora (Spain), Bielsko Biala (Poland) and Frechen (Germany) around 9th of May coinciding with the Europe Day, if you can not join us, go to http://mirope.intras.es our website full of information about the project, main goals, partners, artworks, ideas and all what you need if you want to build a similar experience in your own place.

We hope all of you get inspired by MIROPE, and see you next time!

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IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES

EXHIBITIONS AROUND EUROPE Coinciding with the day of Europe on 9th of May, there will be some exhibition around Europe, to show the artworks produced by the artists.

Visitors will be able to contribute their works to those exhibited. We hope see you there!

SPAIN: On 9th of May at Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre, ZAMORA. For more information please contact with us by sending a mail to intras@intras.es.

Address: Avda. Galicia with Río Aliste.

49032 ZAMORA (SPAIN).

Phone and Fax number: 0034 980 557104 POLAND: On 12th of May at Theatr Grozdki, BIELSKO-BIALA for more information about this event, please contact with us by sending a mail to: maria@teatrgrodzki.pl

Address: Ul. Sempołowskiej 13, 43-300 Bielsko-Biala, Poland

Phone: +48 33 497 56 55, +48 33 496 52 19

Fax: +48 33 497 56 55 GERMANY: On 9th of May at CJD Frechen, FRECHEN for more information about this event, please contact with us by sending a mail to cjd.bbw.frechen@cjd.de

Clarenbergweg 81

50226 Frechen

Phone number: (0 22 34) 516-0

MIROPE project arises as an attempt to empower people at risk of social exclusion in their everyday realities by reflecting upon significant concepts in the history of Europe and raising their awareness about current European values such as democracy, active participation, European identity and European citizenship. The main goal of MIROPE is to foster dialogue, reflection and critical aptitude through art, introducing the 20th Century European History as a starting point and inspiration for creating artistic products.

Take a look at some of our artworks and go to our website http://mirope.intras.es for more information and photos!

SPAIN: ART DURING THE CIVIL WAR

POLAND:

War poster: “War against everybody, everybody against war”

It poster represents an army composed by one photo from each participant of the workshop dressed up as a solder, they chose the motto “War against everybody, everybody against war” and used Photoshop to design it.

Collage: “News from the front” Using an old stretcher, participants glued news about the Spanish Civil War regarding both sides (republican and TOWARDS AN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND SUBJECTIVITY OF SOCIETY nationalism). The main picture represents a mother with her died son from “The son er p Guernica” (Picasso, 1937). nd , ou an b m a of d Sculpture esentation of an enslave . He is pr ” re rs tte is fe It “ freed from co , seeing A TORN COUNTRY waiting to beth ld of mmun ism or w e feels a in

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