Name of the project:
Platforms for young art talents
Beneficiary:
Krug Youth Center - Krug Art Movement Foundation
Operational programme:
Cultural Entrepreneurship, Heritage and Cooperation
Priority:
Awareness of arts and culture of ethnic and cultural minorities improved (Roma focus)
Name of procedure:
First call for project proposals under Outcome 3 “Awareness of arts and culture of ethnic and cultural minorities improved (Roma focus)”
Deadline:
14 months
Short description of the project:
The project’s proposal is aimed at stimulating social cohesion in two districts in Bulgaria (Kardzhali and Sofia) and improving mutual understanding between majority and minority cultures, with a focus on Roma, as a bilateral process. The project aims to increase access to the culture of culture and ethnic minorities (with a focus on Roma) and strengthen their engagement by an integrated set of innovative cultural and educational events, exhibitions and digital documentation of cultural history with a focus on Roma culture, including organizing a traveling tour with the purpose of attracting of new audiences. The 10 project activities will promote cultural initiatives of ethnic minorities (with a focus on Roma aged between 12 and 18) by: implementation of the Concept for sustainable discovery, development and "promotion" of young art talents from various minority and ethnic groups; conducting 4 Art workshops for a total of 40 representatives of the target groups in the 2 areas, including them in a variety of cultural, informational and educational activities within 6 months, incl. by preparing to work with new audiences. Together with KUTIN KONSERT FORENING cultural association from the Kingdom of Norway, the applicant will include majority and minority groups (with a focus on Roma) in interdisciplinary cultural projects in 2 one-week’s summer art sessions within the Plain-air of Arts at the European Cultural Youth House of the applicant’s foundation in the village of Dazhdovnitsa. The final cultural event of the project, Festival of Arts, is intended to widen the area of cultural activities of the Roma population in Bulgaria and present their potential in arts, employing their talents as a bridge to attract new audiences and audience development. An additional innovative contribution of the project will be the development of a digital multifunctional platform with a mobile application and pages in social networks.