Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
18 - 29 June 2007

Cittadellarte and Love Difference, invited by the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (Associacion Internationale pour la Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Mediterranée - BJCEM) are creating a professional course in residence on art practice for social transformation.

The course develops in two phases, the first is that of formation and project planning, within Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto's structure, where the participants will live; the second is that of communication and presentation, executed throughout the days of the 13th Biennale.

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
The workshop aims to furnish the participants with the experience of working in a group through the valorisation of individual creativity directed towards collective planning.

The workshop will develop through a first phase of 80 hours of lectures and exercises given by tutors and professors who are experts in good practices of shared planning for social change at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto. Through a learning by doing formative module, the workshop aims to plan a responsive action to be realised in Alexandria during the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. The group will elaborate a project, aiming to engage the participants of the Alexandria Biennale and the citizens of Alexandria in the themes of art for social change, through meetings, actions and presentations.

During the workshop the following issues will be addressed:
The social role of the artist,
Art for Social Transformation,
Intercultural dialogue,
Migration and Immigration,
Methodologies for realising projects of social impact,
Free Knowledge, web 2.0 and new technologies for the sharing of knowledge,
Sustainable systems of management and development of cultural projects.

The objective of the workshop is to prepare the participants, once re-immersed into their own countries, to attain skills and tools in order to realise artistic projects of social use. At the end of this experience, the participants will be invited to become active agents of a euro-mediterranean network for the responsible transformation of society.

CALENDAR
1st part : 18 - 29 June 2007: workshop at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella - Italy
2nd part : during the 13th Biennale

Selected artist:
- Florence Aigner Belgium
- Saïd Aït El Moumen Morocco
- Daikos Alkis Cyprus
- Marwa Al-Najjar Palestine
- Isabel Andreu Roglà Spain
- Yossi Atia Israel
- Hasan Salih Ay Turkey
- Mirjana Batinic Croatia
- Anca Benera Romania
- Sonia Leimer Austria
- Rica Lina Croatia
- Antonio Martino Italy
- Anna Mawby Great Britain
- Fanny Mesnard France
- Valentina Moschini Italy
- Anja Puntari Finland
- Tamara Romeo Italy
- Micheal Strasser Austria
- Samuel George Taylor Great Britain
- Secil Yaylali Turkey
- Amina Zoubir Algeria

info:
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
www.cittadellarte.it
unidee@cittadellarte.it

Love Difference
www.lovedifference.org
info@lovedifference.org

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