CASE STUDY
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Mayfield  Community  Arts  Centre,  Cork,  Ireland July  7th  -  10th  2009
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background GlobalFest 2009 is a project coorKPUH[LK I` 4H`Ă„LSK Community Arts Centre that brings together young artists from Ireland, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Sweden and Hungary. The young people participated in a variety of workshops during a period of 2 weeks: music, dance, theatre, pyrography, muralism, recycle art and costumes. Some of the work accomplished in these workshops led to public performances during GlobalFest on Saturday 18th July 2009. This was the case for the African music and dance, the Colombian music and dance as well as the theatre performances, which all formed part of the comparsa (parade). The costumes made were worn by the dancers and actors and the recycle art workshop created a 3D interactive boardgame which was played during GlobalFest. There was a launch on WLKULZKH` [O 1\S` H[ 4H`Ă„LSK 3PIYHY` MVY [OL T\YHS WHPU[LK VU [^V ^HSSZ H[ 4H`Ă„LSK 3PIYHY` HUK [OL W`rography work. The latter was exhibited that evening at the library. All of the workshops were facilitated by the following associations: 4H`Ă„LSK *VTT\UP[` (Y[Z *LU[re (Ireland), Mural Moral Group /\UNHY` 2\S[\Y -YP[PK :^LKLU -\UHY[L 5PJHYHN\H 3H Cambalacha (Guatemala), Centro Colombo Americano and CorporaciĂłn RenovaciĂłn Cultural (Colombia).
FACILITATORS Fredy Gutierrez (Colombia) Ronan Forde & Nora Furlong (Ireland) VOLUNTEERS Gerard Nyhan, Brian Walsh & Tara Daly (Ireland) PARTICIPANTS Orsolya Kovacs & Lilla Szilagyi (Hungary) Patricia Peùa Mazo (Colombia), Darren Rolston, Squaby O’Sullivan, Jade Lonergan, Angelina Quilligan, Noreen Butler, Tamara, Aliana, Izabel, Jane (Ireland).
HOW DID WE DO IT?
MCAC TECHNIQUES : CASE STUDIES of PYROGRAPHY STUDY TOOLBOX: CASE ART ACTON MCAC
Day 1 Enabling Creativity The group began with a visual exercise involving the exploration of one’s own image and interests in order to let the other participants know them better. Each creative activity began with an enjoyable exercise designed to help the participants concentrate.
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Day 2 Burning an Image onto Wood The theme of the environment was selected and the group began to explore their ideas and opinions and develop images and slogans to help them express their ideas. THe participants were introduced to the pyrography tool, a tool with a heated meta tip that can be used to burn drawings into wood. The young people copied ther images onto acetate to project them to a larger scale to draw on the wood
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Globalfest 2008 was funded and supported by the European Youth in Action Programme and the Development Education Unit of Irish Aid.
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