Culture Plant
Jelgava Local Municipality ·Latvia
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The goal of the project is to <strong>improve access</strong><strong> to professional contemporary art and culture for children and youngsters in Jelgava Local Municipality (JNP), to</strong> <strong>promote and increase their involvement in creation of new art and cultural products</strong>. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The objective will be achieved through development and provision of art workshops, master classes, led by professional artists of different genres, and provision of capacity building measures<strong> </strong>for culture related teachers at general and professional orientation schools, culture and youth workers of JNP, led by Latvia’s and Norwegian experts of different fields: arts, psychology, pedagogy.<strong> 8 new professional cultural products, created within the workshops and master classes, will be integrated into the main cultural product - Final Creative Performance, and it will be done with strong involvement of artists and target groups, including children and youngsters. </strong>The methodology on how to work with and to integrate contemporary culture into the culture lessons and activities will create preconditions for improvement of the whole culture system in the JNP and Zemgale region. </span></span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
A training cycle for educators, cultural, and youth workers was organized by the project partner from Norway, Fargefabrikken, and its leader Nina Molven. The training took place on November 21-23, 2022 (onsite), March 2-3, 2023 (online), and March 27-29, 2023 (onsite). As a result, the "Art Laboratory in a Suitcase" and a methodology for working with children and youth audiences were developed. At the end of the project, an exchange trip to Norway took place from June 5-8, providing an opportunity for participants to share their experiences.It was quite a change of mindset as teachers and culture workers in Latvia are not very much engaged in work with contemporary art. Therefore really valuable experience was gained for the to be used not only during project implementation, but also after its completion.It is planned that certain cooperation could be continued between Art schools of Jelgava Local Municipality and Fargefabrikken.
Project partners
- Fargefabrikken Donor project partner· Norway
- Interdisciplinary Art Group “Serde” Project partner· Latvia