European ART & TALES in progress – Once upon a time in Europe … Erasmus Project

Project Title

European ART & TALES in progress – Once upon a time in Europe …

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

European ART & TALES in progress (ART & TALES)

Once upon a time there were ancient civilisations in EUROPE – paintings in caves, sculptures in the stone age, Greek mythology about the origin of Europe, …

Our project ART & TALES will be created by six European Countries with very old history in art, tales and mythology in Europe (for instance Spain with Altamira, Italy with Etrusce and Roman culture, very old caves in Bulgaria, sculptures from stone age in Austria – venus from Willendorf ) and a lot of European cultural heritage, tales and mythology (Hungary, Romania,). Also in the project are 2 schools with focus in art (Romania and Italy) and schools with focus in history, writing and old languges (Greek and Latin). The project focuses on the beginning of European history and mythology in art, mythology and tales and acquires skills in creating art and writing tales – comparable to a huge picture book.
Traditional and modern techniques in art production (like cave paintings with coal from stone age as well as street art from Banksy or Michael Köhlmaier with modern tales as well as poetry slam and lyrics performances) will be practised to discover the possibilities of creating art and writing tales in progress. To our opinion comes the value and the understanding of the beginnings of European cultural heritage also from a creative engagement and application in art and writing. The end product is a huge panoramic picture in Austria (22 meters long, 2 meters high) with all the pictures and stories artistically processed (also during long term exchanges – artists in residence) and a booklet with all our writings, our tales, our new mythology. To develop together basic skills in art history, mythology, art expression, writing tales, art design will be a challenge and a opportunity, to practise alternativ and new methods in art expression, art development and teamworking.
The outside of the panoramic picture is in cooperation with partner schools in Africa, Asia and Oceania a summery and comperision about Art&Tales in other parts of the world. The art association “Art & Development” will be the coordinator for the external associated partners (Ghana, Bosnia & Herzegowina, France, Oceania, Armenia).

The project aims that students are familiar with the European history and mythology in art and acquire skills in creating art and writing tales.The value of European cultural heritage comes from the creative engagement and application in art and writing.
We will produce art pictures and writings on the subjects of European cultural heritage, history of art, European tales, European mythology.
We will analyse art and tales. We make a writing competition.
We make an initiation to Art history and mythology. We present a typology of tales and mythology.
A workshop about art, a workshop about literature, tales, mythology.
We will study some of the art pictures about mythology.
We will organize workshops for writing tales. We try to create new tales. We try to perform our new mythology.
The pupils prepare the final presentation for all workshops, art pictures (huge panoramic picture) and tales (booklet) in Austria.

Project Website

https://www.artandtalesinprogress.wordpress.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123702,8 Eur

Project Coordinator

Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Ciszterci Rend Nagy Lajos Gimnáziuma és Kollégiuma
• Colegiul de Arte “Sabin Dragoi” Arad
• ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE M.PAGANO
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Villa de Vícar
• SU Vasil Kunchov Vratsa