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Description
The project has interdisciplinary character and consists of a new theatre performance, exhibition and series of follow-up workshops and lectures. The project will take place in CZ, NO and represents bilateral program between Art Movement and Culture Break Borders, NGO (CBB).
Program and ideological basis for theater performance and exhibition is created by the elements - water, air, earth, fire, metal, ether rmetaphorically representing different state of soul and has 6 main activities :
1. Creating of a new theatre performance and new exhibition
2. Building and development of an accompanying program – workshops, lectures, seminars
3. Capacity building of artists and cultural organizations
4. Presentation of a new performance and exhibition in the Czech Republic and Norway
5. Publicity of the project
6. Project management
It focuses on following apects:
- Activities aimed at creation of new art works (exhibition and performance) , including creative workshops focused on former creation (follow – up workshops)
- Activities focused on the development and involvement of audience, using the creation of a communication strategy towards young audience (here we emphasize the importance of working with the CBB and young people), also the project works with disabled people (painting, acting…)
- Activities addressing current social challenges through arts (the project wants to point out the importance of culture in the fact that it is a link between people and their value systems.We would like to help to recognise that all people have a right to live in dignity and take part in society, that we all share responsibility; we do belive that to present these goals via culture is very appropriate and also popular way of achieving a good result.
Summary of project results
During the intl project a theatre performance, an exhibition & workshops were created. Elements was the dramaturgical starting point for the theatre and exhibition. . . water, air, earth, fire, metal, ether, which metaphorically represent a different state of the soul.It was a continuation of previous projects & continued to support the artistic activities of people with mental health problems. It supported the active lives of people with mental illness.
The project fulfilled the main goal - to help to recognise that all people have a right to live in dignity and take part in society, that we all had to take and share responsibility; Inclusion of people with mental illness into mainstream society through culture should not end with the end of these current calls. On the contrary, they should continue, because people with mental health problems often have a different vision of the world in their „DNA“, which is a enrichment for the rest of us.
Summary of bilateral results
The Elements project team has gained valuable new experience in developing both the programme itself and working with audiences and cultural actors. The project was carried out in bilateral cooperation with the Norwegian entity and other Norwegian subjects (artists, cultural actors) and enriched all involved persons through this cooperation. The theme of the project - working with people suffering from mental illness and their integration into mainstream society - represents a long-term activity of Art Movement and appears to be socially useful and sustainable.The cooperation with the partner CBB lead into the Bordagene program a festival to support mental health and to which the Elementy project rang nicely with its focus. At the end of the monitoring period, the project was evaluated as very beneficial for our target audience and for the cultural actors themselves. Strengthening the capacity of both entities was beneficial. Currently we are not planning further cooperation with CBB.