Open Institutions workshop | presentation brochure

Project promoter: “Sintagma” Centre for Education and Training Bucharest, Romania Phone: +407507010255 E-mail: mihai@centrulsintagma.ro Web: www.centrulsintagma.ro Contact person for the workshop: Raluca Pop, project manager, raluca@centrulsintagma.ro

8-17 April 2013 International workshop organized by “Sintagma” Centre for Education and Training & 4th Age Community Arts Centre

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Community

Arts

10 days of workshops, presentations and discussions In communit y arts it is not clear who’s g iv ing and who’s re ceiving

WHAT IS COMMUNITY ARTS

The community/communities are authors, subjects and the main audience for the community arts

Art processes developed together with one or several

specific

communities.

The

community/communities are involved in the creative process from the starting point to the final product. Community arts can include any kind

of

media

(visual

arts,

photography,

literature, dance, theatre etc.). Artists and community members decide together the artistic

products. The members of the community become artists

themselves,

working

together

with

professionals to express their own problems, demands, dilemmas – their own vision on the world. The artistic product is only a result and not the main objective of the community arts project.

The process of working, sharing and learning together is the goal.

Community arts Learn it! Share it! Love it!

approach based on the necessities and will of the community.

enabling seniors in Retirement Homes gain new life perspectives

PURPOSE

Participants from:

The artistic intervention of community arts can have a great role in the development and increase

Hungary Germany Latvia Spain Bulgaria

of living standards of institutionalized individuals.

4th AGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE

Being involved in social artistic activities gives the institutionalized persons an opportunity to express

Coordinators: Paul Dunca, Alice Monica Marinescu, Mihaela Michailov, Katia Pascariu, David Schwartz.

themselves, to share their views and opinions, to spend quality time together with the artists and the community. It makes them part of the community again. Through self-representation, the institutionalized individuals can regain their dignity

LEARNER PROFILE

An easy-to-fill-in application form was available on-line. The communication language of the workshop was English

We welcomed learners with good communication skills, who embrace the cause of the elderly and institutionalized individuals, and who have the potential to promote and develop community artsbased initiatives in their local context.

All costs (workshops, meals, accommodation, and travel costs) were covered for non-Romanian participants.

and self-respect.

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APPLICATION PROCEDURE

A LIFE-EXPERIENCE FOR THE

Participants come to understand that the elderly

Occupation:

have valuable things to communicate to the young

photographers, scriptwriters, actors, doctors, social workers, students.

that they are not a threat or a burden, but can be a

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

We get this message across by encouraging self-

Most activities of the workshop were held at the “Amalia and Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses Rosen” Retirement Home. We organized study visits, cultural walks and leisure events, in order to give international participants the chance to become familiar with the city, to meet other artists or social workers, and to find out about other similar inclusive initiatives with an artistic input.

representation through community arts.

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resource and an asset for their communities’ identities and roots.

The 4th Age Program aims to: • offer senior residents of the Rosen Home a framework for artistic expression; • propose a setting for the interaction between generations through artistic practices which engage and encourage team-work of young artists and seniors;

• through personal and community stories develop the “symbolical productivity” of a social category often considered “non-productive”;

Romania generation and to non-institutionalized people,

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• lay the base of a model for artistic intervention in Retirement Homes;

LEARNERS Ages between 19 and 50.

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• emphasize the societal function of an age group commonly regarded as “incapable of useful activities”; • Change the attitude towards the elderly in Romanian society.

The 4th Age program is being carried out in partnership with the “Amalia and Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses Rosen” Retirement Home and FCER-DASM – The Social and Medical Assistance Department of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania.