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  • Arts4all Meeting 2012: 4th-6th July 2012

COMING CLOSER!
HIGH QUALITY IN ARTS EDUCATION
Participation, strategies, discussion & ART CAMP!

Arts Education has gained recognizable attention during the last 10 years. It no longer is a concept discussed only by a small number of experts (See UNESCO Development Goals on Arts Education, 2010). Festival agendas of the European City of Culture also content arts education programmes. On the one hand that is a great benefit and chance to find broader recognition for our work and concepts within main stream societies. On the other hand in some countries new “experts” and providers of arts education services arise from different backgrounds and with different qualities. Since the first arts4all meeting in 2005, we continually reckon that arts schools work quite different within European countries. That concerns financial, pedagogical and structural matters as well as political strategies. However, all art schools and art school associations claim high quality. How can we ensure quality in arts education and communicate that we are providers of high quality arts education? How can our concepts and projects provide access to quality arts education for all young people in Europe? How can popularity of arts education help to sustainable finance extracurricular arts education? How do we deal with our differences?

Arts4all meeting goal in 2012 is to come closer, to learn more about art school practice and politics within Europe and in a second step to discuss our common strategic interests. The three day meeting is not only linked to “TURNING POINT” – The Programme of the European Capital of Culture at Maribor and to the FESTIVAL LENT, but deeply integrated in the “ART CAMP” - the festival part of arts education programme run by our hosts of Centre of Arts Education (Kulturno izobraževalno središče - KIS) at Narodni dom Maribor.

Arts4all Meeting 2012: 4th-6th July 2012, Maribor, Slovenia; Arrial: 4th Juy,unil 7 pm, Departure: 7th July, mornig

Information and application form: julia.nierstheimer[at]bjke.de

 

  • face to face - announcement for youngsters:

Hero on stage: We wanted to invite young people from different European countries (Arts4all network) to participate via Internet in our photography project “face to face”.

Who is your “everyday hero”?, we asked.
The young peoples send us a picture of their “hero” (in front of a neutral background). Then young photographers in Germany worked with the portrait of the different “heros”. They asked themselves what made the person an everyday hero. What are their talents, what makes them special?

Finally the photos (redesigned by the German workshop participants) were send back to their senders and they were presented in the face to face-exhibition at the U tower of Dortmund (a well-known and brand new museum:www.dortmunder-u.de/en

There is also an online presentation with all redesigned photos.

  • Why do youngsters like art schools?

Two videos made by arts4all members from Belgium (M. Wieczerniak, OVSG) and The Netherlands (M. Hermsen/Scholen in de Kunst) present strong arguments for cultural activities in art schools - coming from the youngsters themselves:

Report Meeting: 26th-28th April 2011, Tallinn, Estonia

Linked to the Cultural Capital of Europe 2011 the recent Arts4all meeting took place in Tallinn. Host of the meeting was the local artschool - Sally Stuudio - with its European Youth Art Triennal Eksperimenta! wich was opened during the meeting. About 30 participants from 11 European countries met and discussed the "value of arts edcuation" by giving examples of how they tackle social, financial and political challenges of the present. One of the concrete results: Plans for a common digital art project based on the idea of the German LKD NRW-association called "face to face - faces of Europe". Art schools in Europe shall exchange by pictures or impressions of their region taken by youngsters of their art schools. All participants agreed upon the important meaning of the network to support their local, regional and national work and to develop quality and access to cultural education in Europe referring the UNESCO development goals on arts education.

The next meeting: 4.-6. July 2012, Maribor, Slovenia