Everyone is an Artist Erasmus Project

Project Title

Everyone is an Artist

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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The general objective was always the inclusion of youth with functional diversity though the art and artistic expression. The project worked on stigma, isolation, social exclusion and lack of access to cultural and artistic world through awareness, empowerment, creating participatory spaces, the approach of cultural and artistic activities that will generate a horizontal and based on ability and citizen participation methodology.

Five organizations from Spain, Italy, Portugal and Hungary believed in the need to create a strategic partnership to develop a project where young disabled participants will be trained about an artistic discipline (Land Art, photography, dance, music or theater) and then they will create an artistic project by themselves and later they will participate in the the whole dissemination of project

During the 1st phase, we carried out artistic workshops were held combining the participation of young people with disabilities, volunteers and professionals. In addition to the collection of projects and artistic actions carried out previously in each country to inspire the methodology applied by our participants.

In a second phase, the participants carried out their own artistic projects (play, dance show, music show, exhibition of Land Art works, etc.).

In a third phase, each country presented its artistic projects with exhibitions / shows at the local level, in different multiplier events.

As a final action of the project, a week of activities was carried out in Budapest, combining workshops where participants from each country transmitted the methodologies learned during the previous phases to participants from other countries.
Also, during the workshops, participants from all countries had the opportunity to jointly design and create the final exhibition / performance that brought together all the artistic disciplines of the project.

Impact of Artbilities project:

• Minimum of 120 direct participants in the project activities (among young people with disabilities, professionals and volunteers).
• Approximately 60 entities, out of the partnership, from the social, cultural and artistic sector have participated in some way in the achievement, production or dissemination of any activity. Among them we can find 15-20 public entities.
• Related to general public, more than 300 people per country, so more than 1500 people have interacted in some way with the Artbilities project, through the online platform (product of the project), the Facebook accounts and attending exhibitions, performances or multiplier events.

Intelectual outputs:

• Guide ArtIBILITIES
• Video Documentary ArtIBILITIES about the process.
• Online platform ArtBILITIES to continue with the Exchange of best practices of social inclusion through art and cultural activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91947 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACION RAMON REY ARDID & Country: ES

Project Partners

• EGYUTTHATO KOZOSSEGEPITO EGYESULET
• Sapame
• TRAMES ONLUS
• ASSOCIACAO RECREATIVA, CULTURAL E SOCIAL DE SILVEIRINHOS