Erasmus+ Youth Exchange “Art over Problems” (acronym AoP) took place in Kaunas, Lithuania on September 19-27, 2016. Project’s mission was to provide youth with new skills/tools for solving social problems by using visual arts.
Project number: 2016-2-LT02-KA105- 004804
Objectives
The project had the following objectives:
- encourage youth to take on more social art initiatives;
- strengthen youth’s knowledge of the significance of visual arts and the way to use them to influence particular social issues;
- generate fresh ideas for future projects and activities that would use visual arts for reaching social aims within the local communities in the participating countries
Project’s Participants
36 young people coming from 6 different countries (Turkey, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland and Lithuania) took part. Most of the participants already had previous knowledge of arts, volunteering and working with minorities; thus, information sharing among them was easily facilitated. The participants were graduates of different art schools, those interested in fine arts, studying creative industries or photography, volunteers in student organisations, art exhibitions, culture labs, working with different art forms (from graffitti to photography), etc.
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