19 Dec 2011

Call for Applications: Art Diversity & Intercultural Engagement fully subsidised course in Barcelona

ART DIVERSITY AND INTERCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT fully subsidised 5 day course in Barcelona, July 2012
Building new platforms for engagement through art
La Associación de Creadoras Audio & Visual
Deadline: 16 January, 2012

Art, Diversity & Intercultural Engagement is a 5 day long fully EU subsidised course designed for art and education professionals.
Course Dates: 2-6 July, 2012

The course is designed to assist educators, curators and professionals involved with migrant and community programming to:
• develop new models and approaches for dealing with challenges of bringing contemporary audiences to art and bringing art to general audiences in their own countries and beyond;
• Explore how engagement with art can be a catalyst for social cohesion and peaceful coexistence: how it can help people to open to each other outside of the usual boundaries.
• build resources, skills and opportunities to develop new approaches and paradigms in addressing contemporary audiences and their needs;
• work with art as a forum for inter-cultural dialogue and the socio-political importance of art in development of civil society in a culturally heterogeneous Europe.

Professionals working in institutions involved in art adult and secondary education Adult education institutions, Museum educators and curators; Cultural centres, Community and Migrant centre management, Social workers involved in education activities, in the EU (and other eligible countries* except Spain) will have their full cost of participation subsidised by the Gruntdtvig mobility grant (this includes cost of travel, accommodation, per diems etc).


To be eligible participants must submit an application by 29 April 2011 to the Grundtvig National Agencies in their country please find following the list of contacts: ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc1208_en.htm

The course is intended both as a formal learning programme and an opportunity to share experiences and develop projects with fellow art and education professionals in one of worlds most artistically, culturally and ethnically diverse cities.

*Grundtvig eligible countries:Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands,Turkey, United Kingdom

Please contact course co-ordinator Valerie Kabov <vkabov@gmail.com> or Rabia Williams <rabia_williams@yahoo.com> for details of the programme and for assistance with the grant applications.