Description
The project will consist of a series of educational and artistic activities conducted simultaneously in Poland and Iceland as an extra curriculum course. Its objective is creating stories about two cities, portraits of people and places (photos, memories, journals). This is basically artistic and educational youth exchange. 30 students, age 14-16 from Reykjavik and Wroclaw schools will participate with the same tasks and responsibilities. The project includes two series of literary (creative and non-fiction) writing and photography course with experts in 2 countries. During the workshop the students will learn how to tell their colleagues about their cities with words and images. There will be visits in the partnership cities when the first tales will be told, experience exchanged, participants will share knowledge from the workshop and swap information about the life/school/history of the other place. The project ends with the exhibition of the works in Wroclaw (prints, open for public, free of charge) as well as publication in two languages (photos and texts, printed and in e-book version, distributed for free).
Summary of project results
The project consisted of a series of educational and artistic activities conducted simultaneously in Poland and Iceland as an extra curriculum course. Its objective was creating stories about two cities, portraits of people and places (photos, memories, journals). This was basically artistic and educational youth exchange. 30 students, age 14-16 from Reykjavik and Wroclaw schools participated with the same tasks and responsibilities. The project included two series of literary (creative and non-fiction) writing and photography course with experts in 2 countries. During the workshop the students learnt how to tell their colleagues about their cities with words and images. There were visits in the partnership cities and experience exchanged, participants shared knowledge from the workshop and information about the life/school/history of the other place. The project ended with the exhibition of the works in Wroclaw (prints, open for public, free of charge) as well as publication in two languages (photos and texts, printed and in e-book version, distributed for free).
Summary of bilateral results
The City of Reykjavik (UNESCO City of Literature office and the Department of Education) provided high-quality experts in the field of literature and photography to host the workshop for students. It was responsible for the substantial content of the course, supervised the activities in Iceland (venue, schedule, travels, accommodation). Cooperation with Polish NGO and schools allowed the partner to widen the scope of activities in the country and abroad. It gave the Icelandic participants new ways of learning and spending time outside school. It participated actively in all the project activities. This was the 2nd and not the last common project of the two partners, next ones to follow soon.