In this presentation and workshop run for IKP students, Beverley Harvey from Laundry shared some of her experiences of working with culturally diverse communities.

Beverley Harvey is based in Smethwick in the West Midlands of England. She is of Jamaican heritage and comes from a community development background. Her role models are Angela Davis and Cleopatra Jones. She is currently working on a film project with young people in Tipton tackling issues of gangs, intercultural violence and gun culture. She is also developing a project with the Borderland Foundation for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

Aided and assisted by artists from Laundry, on Monday thirty participants from the Art Institute and the Institute of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University - along with students from the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University -  set off in search of the Wonders of Kaunas. Come along and see their work in progress on Friday December 7th at 6pm!

Atidarymas gruodžio 7 d., penktadienį, 18 val.
VDU klubas „Sesija“, S. Daukanto g. 27, Kaunas

With 37 nominations on line and more than 100 collected from postcards we look forward to the results, which will form part of a publication the Art Institute will be presenting in 2008.
 

Roll up, roll up, for more wonderful workshops…

Workshop ‘Wonders of Kaunas’ - 3 - 7 December 2007

Place: ‘Sesija’, a club of Vytautas Magnus University, S. Daukanto str. 27, Ground Floor. Participants: Artists’ group ‘Laundry’ (UK, www.laundryline.co.uk), students of the Art Institute and the Institute of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University, and students from the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University. Here is the schedule…

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Image: from presentation and performance from Planet Congress workshop led by Darek Śmiechowski, outside the Basilica on ul. Kawęczyńska.

At a presentation about the Wonders of Warsaw project at Tarabuk Cafe in April, we met with the organisers of The 11th Planet Congress. This is a group of young student architects and urban planners -  concerned with encouraging and nurturing social participation in the redevelopment and regeneration of public spaces. How might we collaborate?

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Sessions have taken place this week in a new gallery space in Praga - Appendix2 - to explore the Wonders of Warsaw.

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Account of photographic project that provided a set of ideas and methods for culture animation with medium of photography.

Photo workshop pdf

Finally the book presenting curriculum of postgraduate studies for high school teachers of study of culture and for practitioners is ready.

The project of an newly-formulated program of postgraduate studies for teachers is associated with the idea of postgraduate studies for practitioners of culture. Of course, the specific goals for these two kinds of participant - teachers and culture animators - will differ somewhat. Teachers will still be taught to teach cultural science in the course of their studies whereas for culture animators, activity is their profession and their priority . The program’s aim is to ‘animate animators’, provide them with anthropologically grounded animation skills, update their knowledge, encourage them to go beyond the institutionally consolidated image of the world, in which culture happens in a local council cultural centre, most likely on a stage. Despite these differences in specific goals, however, we assume the program will remain an integrated whole. After all, teachers play a role as a practitioners of activity in the culture and culture animators are also teachers.

Book includes  curriculum itself, commentary to it and detailed programmes of classes and workshops. Its available in Polish. We attach also introduction to the book (curriculum and commentary) and the programme of media workshop in English.

Curriculum in Polish                  

Introduction in English

Media workshop in English

So, we are preparing ourselves to work together and to work in/with this place called Gozdowo. We are in the middle of a 2 week visit and we are tired. (But rather excited I think.) We are painfully aware that we can do everything wrong, that maybe we are not doing everything right or in the right order or in the right room.

Yesterday evening I ran a workshop introducing Photoshop as a tool for cultural animation. I work with this tool myself. A lot. But not exclusively. I work also with paint, with performance, with chocolate, with statistics, with plastic bags. (Read more…)

"Katedra Kultury" Association and Laundry are organizing Photoshop workshops for Cultural Animation students and graduates:

Cultural Animation + Adobe Photoshop - How, When & Why to use it? (Read more…)