ART FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
June 18 - 29 2007: Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella - Italy

Interdisciplinary and participated projection workshop
curated by:
Abdalla Daif, Aliaa El Gready (Gudran) Cristiana Bottigella (Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto) & Filippo Fabbrica (Love Difference) with the participation of Hassan Darsi (La Source du Lion), Wanda Hoesch and Rym Morgan (Asiles), Andrea Segre (Zalab tv).

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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 developed a proposal for a project: "The city is one of us"; the second is that of communication and presentation, executed throughout the days of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, scheduled in Alexandria (Egypt), but then happenng in Bari (Italy). (go to the second stage of the workshop)


STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP

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.

For the workshop, given in English, have been selected select 19 young creatives who will participate in the Alexandria Biennale and are interested in exploring the relationship between creativity and social responsibility.

Selected artists
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
Itmar Rose Israel
Micheal Strasser Austria
Samuel George Taylor Great Britain
Secil Yaylali Turkey
Amina Zoubir Algeria
Experts  
Abdalla Daif, Aliaa El Gready Gudran (Alexandria, Egypt)
www.gudran.com
Hassan Darsi La Source du Lion (Casablanca, Morocco)
sourcedulion.free.fr
Wanda Hoesch, Rym Morgan Asiles, actions et solidarités interculturelles (Paris, France)
www.asiles.com
Andrea Segre Zalab tv
www.zalab.tv

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