Activities in Romania

“Diversity as Freedom of Expression”

On the 3rd May 2007, on the occasion of the World Freedom Day celebrated in the entire world by means of creative tools, Art Perspective youth association organizes the project “Diversity as Freedom of Expression”.

The aim of the project is to promote the concepts „diversity„ and „freedom of expression” among young generations, but also to build a framework for developing their artistic skills and creativity.

This project is carried out in two stages:

1st Stage – Organization of an artistic workshop in cooperation with School no. 1 from Dragomiresti village, near Bucharest, by involving children aged 13 - 15 in creative activities by means of which they will be able to express their view on the world they live and things that occur around them. This will be done by drawings, collages and creative text writing, based on two main activities:

- an open discussion about „freedom of expression”, a concept perceived through children’ eyes in order to realistically assess the impact this concept has on future generations.

- a word game based on Loesje creative text writing method – an exercise of imagination and freedom of expression using words from the domain of newspapers and media.

As a result of these two activities exemplifying the written and oral way of expressing freedom, the project will end with a display of children’ imagination by means of creating a unique collage with different art materials at hand.

2nd Stage: - On the same day, at 19.00 in Club A from Bucharest is organized the second part of the project where youngsters will make use of their photographical and musical abilities by participating to the following activities:

a) Photography Exhibition – to reflect the project idea of freedom of expression;

b) Musical shows performed by bands and individual singers as a way of strengthening the concept of diversity by musical elements (guests: ACUM – folk; IOD – rock; Kata – hip-hop; Bianca – R&B; Roxana – pop music).

In addition to the activities mentioned above, at the entrance in Club A there will be posted big blank posters on which everyone is invited to leave a graphic message (a drawing or a text) in order to exemplify the freedom of speech and share any other interesting ideas with their fellow youngsters.

Join us in Bucharest on 3^rd May 2007!

Sorina Grosu

gsorina@yahoo.com