This is a project that develops innovative products in the field of non-formal learning methodologies for social inclusion of youth with disabilities through art.The overall objective of the project is the inclusion of young people with functional diversity through art and creative expression. The project aims to work on stigma, isolation, social exclusion and lack of access to cultural and artistic world through awareness, empowerment, creating participatory spaces, the approach of cultural and artistic activities that will generate a horizontal and based on ability and citizen participation methodology.Five European organizations from Spain, Italy, Portugal and Hungary believed in the need to create a strategic partnership to develop a project where young disabled participants will be trained about an artistic discipline (Land Art, photography, dance, music or theater) and then they will create an artistic project by themselves and later they will participate in the the whole dissemination of project.It is an innovative project because:• Use and promote culture and art as a means of empowerment and awareness• Testing different expressive disciplines where each one has different abilities / skills with the same level of participation (involvement of users/young people)• Go beyond disability, sharing capabilities/skills (between people with disability and without)• Increase visibility (awareness) as it helps to go beyond fear caused by ignorance, knowing that people are just people and that differences are resources, not problems.This project will result a guide to methodology and a documentary which will be reflected two years of the project.This project will impact on:• Participants: people with different skills (disability), professionals of culture sector, artists and others interested in society and involved in the creative process, also indirectly families and citizens.• General public (awareness)• Exchange of tools/ methodologies between organizations. The idea is that each entity share its expertise in 1 or 2 art disciplines (music, theatre, painting, sculpture, dance, etc.) • Promotion of young local artists (with or without disabilities)
The general objective was always the inclusion of youth with functional diversity though the art and artistic expression. The project worked on stigma, isolation, social exclusion and lack of access to cultural and artistic world through awareness, empowerment, creating participatory spaces, the approach of cultural and artistic activities that will generate a horizontal and based on ability and citizen participation methodology. Five organizations from Spain, Italy, Portugal and Hungary believed in the need to create a strategic partnership to develop a project where young disabled participants will be trained about an artistic discipline (Land Art, photography, dance, music or theater) and then they will create an artistic project by themselves and later they will participate in the the whole dissemination of project During the 1st phase, we carried out artistic workshops were held combining the participation of young people with disabilities, volunteers and professionals. In addition to the collection of projects and artistic actions carried out previously in each country to inspire the methodology applied by our participants. In a second phase, the participants carried out their own artistic projects (play, dance show, music show, exhibition of Land Art works, etc.). In a third phase, each country presented its artistic projects with exhibitions / shows at the local level, in different multiplier events. As a final action of the project, a week of activities was carried out in Budapest, combining workshops where participants from each country transmitted the methodologies learned during the previous phases to participants from other countries. Also, during the workshops, participants from all countries had the opportunity to jointly design and create the final exhibition / performance that brought together all the artistic disciplines of the project. Impact of Artbilities project: • Minimum of 120 direct participants in the project activities (among young people with disabilities, professionals and volunteers). • Approximately 60 entities, out of the partnership, from the social, cultural and artistic sector have participated in some way in the achievement, production or dissemination of any activity. Among them we can find 15-20 public entities. • Related to general public, more than 300 people per country, so more than 1500 people have interacted in some way with the Artbilities project, through the online platform (product of the project), the Facebook accounts and attending exhibitions, performances or multiplier events. Intelectual outputs: • Guide ArtIBILITIES • Video Documentary ArtIBILITIES about the process. • Online platform ArtBILITIES to continue with the Exchange of best practices of social inclusion through art and cultural activities.