The project „Facing ARTS together“ is specifically an art-oriented project which will involve four European secondary art schools and it will aim at the development of three areas of secondary art education. The first of all is preserving our cultural heritage by capturing the lives of local artists in short documentary films made by students and by presenting these films to the wide public. The second area we will focus on is using art as a communication platform to address sensitive social issues topics. These topics are represented by the capital letters in the project title where A stands for abuse, R for racism, T for threats and S stands for stereotypes. Last but not least, our third area which we would like to deal with is secondary art education and the school curriculums in all involved schools and their countries by comparing our teaching practices, highlighting similarities and differences.
Erasmus days were held at our school as part of the so-called Open Studios Days, when the public is invited to tour the studios of local artists. Visitors saw an exhibition of artworks created during the Facing Arts Together project, as well as documentaries about local artists. At the same time, they were given information about the Erasmus+ program and the project itself.
SUP Svidník organized the public event in the House of Culture in Svidnik promoting the results of two Erasmus+ projects. One of them was "Facing ARTS together", its touring exhibition, screening four educational videos, the awarded document about the artist Tomas Olijar and video feedback from participants.
It took us more than two months to put together all the info, texts about abuse, racism, threats and stereotypes and our artwork in the form of a touring exhibition which will start its touring at the beginning of this October. If you want to see what we have designed, take a look!
The same project was created on the old platform of eTwinning, however, as it happened to many eTwinning users, it did not work here, so we had to recreate it again. We will gradually add new members and the results of our Erasmus+ project activities and do our best to make this eTwinning project as alive as possible. Although our project was also the Erasmus+ project and it finished at the end of August this year, we will continue collaborating through this eTwinning space for at least one more school year and work and elaborate on even other significant social issues. Meanwhile, you can find more info about our work at the project's website.
