The cultural world reaches everyone

Name of the project:

The cultural world reaches everyone

Beneficiary:

Association Our World

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:

12 months

Short description of the project:

The project presents an interdisciplinary approach to informing the general public about the culture and art of ethnic minorities with a focus on Roma from Northeast Bulgaria and it aims at two target groups of 200 young people, direct beneficiaries, from two settlements-Sindel and the town of Ignatievo in Varna District.

The project includes 10 teachers and 5 artists, professionals in various genres of art. It will stablish creative workshops for theatrical mastery, oratory and poetry, music and stage dances, design and scenography, as well as photography and applied arts, where the target group will be trained and the created cultural products will be included in the Traveling Festival "My world is yours". Performative performance "I am - I can", created by professional artists and the target group, will recreate in a new, original way St. George''s Day, which is important for the Bulgarian and Roma community, using the means of expression of various arts for prepared by the target group within the creative workshops. All works of children and artists will be arranged at an audio-visual exhibition in the regional city of Varna. During this exhibition the short film "My world is yours" about the work process, the work of young people in interests, their experiences will be presented. The equipped radio stations in the partner schools  will promote the results. The young people will be trained in media culture, informing themselves about their identity and cultural values. The project includes organizing a conference on “Identity and audiences : the cultural world reaches all" for scientific analysis of the achievement of project goals. The presented reports will be formed in a collection of scientific articles as a cultural product of the project.

The project will revive the cultural life in these small settlements, will put the ethnic group in the focus of the search of the cultural and scientific circles for a new alternative audience.