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Policy recommendations in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Final Conference in Brussels

After the successful implementation of the creative placemaking projects, it was the time for the partnership to hold policy roundtables, engaging all relevant stakeholders in discussions with the scope to further exploit the project results and aiming to their capitalization through institutionalization. More specifically, policy making processes took place on two levels. Firstly, three national …

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Exploring Creative Placemaking Projects in Greece, Italy, and Portugal

After completing various training activities and mini artistic projects, the teams formed through co-creativity hubs and engaged audiences in Greece, Italy, and Portugal came together to deliver creative placemaking projects in their own communities. These projects showcased the unique characteristics of each community, drawing inspiration from their creative strengths and addressing the changes brought by …

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Lisbon residents exploring the management of emotions through art with professional artists

25 Lisbon residents participated in workshops with professional artists in the context of Come2Art, a project that intends to create a collaborative scheme between artists & community members fostering life skills development and resilience through creative placemaking.  The artists involved were: Bruno Alexandre Pereira Teixeira, AKA Sepher AWK (@sepher.awk), was born in April 1997, in Amadora. …

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Local art practices to connect artists and young communities in Italy

The Come2art project aims to bring local communities closer to contemporary art by enhancing a collaborative scheme between artists, cultural workers, and citizens. Thus, art becomes a tool for developing cultural strategies that achieve community-led transformation. During the project, IoDeposito organized a series of specific training courses on emotional skills, involving 5 contemporary artists in …

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Greek youth collaborate with artists and cultural workers

The project’s vision is to introduce a collaborative scheme between artists/cultural workers currently in limbo and community members, with the aim to promote life skills development through arts and participatory creative placemaking projects (i.e. mural arts, public art etc). One of the first steps to achieve this goal is the organization of weekly training courses. …

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Workshop in Brussels for training the artists and cultural workers as Come2Art trainers

During a 5-day training, 29 artists and cultural workers in the Come2Art project were trained by the COME2ART partners in order to undertake the role of the community educator and creativity ambassador. The selected artists/cultural workers were trained as trainers of the COME2ART curriculum, creativity ambassadors of the co-creativity hubs, community mentors during the design …

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Art, artists and the pandemic. Insights from Lisbon-based creative workers

Between December 2021 and January 2022, Clube Intercultural Europeu carried out a series of focus groups with local artists and community members. Inquiries were made to better understand how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the lives and work of the artists and how art can help people to cope with highly stressful situations (such as lock-downs …

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