Open (H)Art
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JSC “Global ideas” participates in EC Lifelong Learning Programme with Grundtvig Learning Partnership project “Open (H)Art”, project No. LLP-GRU-MP-2009-LT-00071.
Partnership will increase public awareness on the importance of art as a tool for social an educational work. Project aims to consolidate methodology of using arts as a tool for social work, exploring ways of applying innovative and creative artistic processes in social change activities and promoting acceptance, tolerance and social inclusion.
Project is coordinated by AE20 / Associação para a Educação de Segunda Oportunidade (Portugal).
The following organizations are project partners:
- Theatre Tsvete (Bulgaria);
- Associazione Ligure Afasici ALIAS (Italy);
- Stowarzyszenie Akademia plus 50 (Poland);
- JSC “Global ideas” (Lithuania).
During two years (2009-2011) the project will connect practioners and volunteers active in social and educational work from different European countries. In that way partners will promote sharing of experiences and knowledge about using arts in social and educational programmes and improve the quality and attractiveness of their activities. At the same time partners will test the impact of different techniques, coming from arts on various target groups (elderly people, youth at risk, people with disabilities, etc.) and to create and use common observational indicators and research instruments.
The project consists of three parts:
- during the planning phase, partner organisations will identify their potential target groups; will divide the tasks between them; will design content of project’s website;
- during the implementation phase, partner organisations will actively take part in local activities and international meetings; will promote the project in their countries among local communities, authorities, potentially interested participants, etc.
- during the evaluation phase, partner organisations will take part in small evaluation activities during each international meeting and in final evaluation meeting in the end of the project; will work out together the progress and final report, etc.
The expected outcomes of the project are as follows:
- international meetings for exchanging experiences and good practices;
- diaries and reports documenting field work in each country organisation;
- a website acting as a virtual resource for organisations and trainers;
- international seminar as a public report of our collaborative work – invitation to our colleagues to follow us;
- festival and conference in the end of the project, presenting what we have been working on and what we have achieved.
Project website: http://open-h-art.eu/.
Latest news
Today (2010.07.26) one of the biggest Lithuanian newspaper “Lietuvos rytas” has published an article about Open (H)Art project, its partners, process and results.
The title: Open (H)Art: How art changes us?
From the 20th to 24th of June 2011 the 6th partnership meeting of the Open (H) Art project took place in Matosinhos/Porto, Portugal hosted by coordinating institution – E2O / Associação para a Educação de Segunda Oportunidade. During this trip, participants had a great opportunity to explore the city, to have a interesting workshops with the second chance school students and to prepare for the international conference “Open (H) art – The Impacts of Arts in Social Educational Programs” that happened on the 22nd of June and where attended by nearly 50 participants. During the conference, project work and main outcomes (including the project website) were presented to the wider audience.
From the 6th to 10th of November, 2010, the 4th partnership meeting of the Open (H) Art project took place in Bialystok, Poland. On the first day participants had a „Multicultural Podlasie Area” trip, and the next day all work has started. Everyone participated in the conference, which took next two days where they met local authorities, Polish NA representatives and NGOs, have discussed opportunities of adult general education, have exchanged the experience and discussed further plans. During the trip, participants had several dance workshops with the hosting organization Stowarzyszenie Akademia plus 50.
On March 1-4th, 2010 the 2nd meeting of the EC Grundtvig Learning partnership project Open (H)Art took place in Kaunas (Lithuania), where project partners from Portugal, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria and Lithuania discussed the progress of project implementation made so far. Arts and other creative methods to motivate disadvantaged social groups were discussed. Project website http://open-h-art.eu/ developed by JSC Global Ideas was presented. Possibilities of using ICT and multimedia art for social inclusion of disadvantaged persons were discussed. Partners defined similarities between their organizations and shared ways they use art in different projects. Guests had opportunity to explore Kaunas old town and to taste national cuisine. Moments of the meeting:
On October 12-15th director Rasa Jakštaitė took part in the kick-off meeting of the EC Grundtvig Learning partnership project Open (H)Art in Matosinhos (Portugal), where the first steps of the Project implementation were discussed. Moments of the meeting:
