Deadline- 21 August 2013
The Artivists for Change Workshop is being organized which aims to focus on Activism and its relation to Creativity, Art, Design and Social Innovation. The objective of this program is to discuss their own practices and analyze their impact, and most important to plan, develop and implement a series of public interventions in Thessaloniki that raise awareness on the social, political, environmental and other issues.
The Activists for Change project aims to highlight a basic question: How can we make public expression of opinion more creative, less violent and more effective?
The Workshop will take place from 15-24 October 2013, in Thessaloniki Greece.
The project proposes a twofold agenda:
- The creation of an Online Database of creative public space interventions that will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between activists, artists and cultural workers.
- A Workshop in October 2013, in Thessaloniki, Greece, with participants from the four participating countries, selected through an open-call by the collaborating organizations. The Workshop is financially supported by the European Cultural Foundation and is organized and hosted by DYNAMO
Eligibility & Criteria-
- This open-call is for international creators, artists, social innovators, technologists, cultural activists who have prior experience and engagement in public performance and demonstration. In order to secure participants from different creative fields they have allocated four different target groups of participants, one for each country.
- The four distinct target groups are:
- Cyprus: Performance/Theater/Dance/Cultural Activism
- Germany: Performance/Social Innovation/Cultural Activism
- Greece: Performance/Visual Arts/Applied Arts/Architecture
- Jordan: Digital Art & Content Activism /Technology for public good (technology activism)
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