Animals are always the best company for people. They could also be a good inspiration! In the drawing workshop of this Wednesday in ANTIGONE, we draw with the help of Felix, a stray cat.

Instructions:

1. Write the 10 most important values in your opinion (ex freedom, love, recognition)
2. Put them in hierarchical order first the most important and then the less etc.
3. Next to each value put a color that you think fits or it’s expresses you..
4. Choose a mandala design (from what it was given).

Create a draft of your own mandala putting in the center the colors of the most important values, outside the next values-colors etc.

The work can be reproduced with materials and techniques of your choice and the size you want.

This technique has many ramifications

It’s associated with self-awareness, connects painting with our core values. Moreover, it captures in a single, unique and significant form for each one of us, all of our values, despite our own potential values.

Coming back from our summer holidays, we are met for our regular art workshops, Wednesdays at 15.00.

People with disabilities and mental issues carry the experience and knowledge that can be used as a primary source for bottom-up initiatives to promote social inclusion through art. ARTS feels that the flow of daily experiences of people with disabilities are indispensable to the sustainability of the envisaged art workshops. As such, marginalised people are regarded among responsible contributors for development of workshop curricula along with adult trainers, artists, and for selecting the themes of weekly art classes.

The methodological approach of the project ARTS can increase social participation of people with disabilities and facilitate access to cultural, recreational activities and activities for developing new professional skills and knowledge. The democratic pedagogical approach can foster participants’ self-confidence and make them willing to express themselves and setting up a space where their opinions are being taken into consideration. This can have a positive impact on their families and daily lives. The cooperative organisation of art labs, the  workshops and the the transnational learning activities can  build concrete skills expendable in the job market.

Throughout this experiential workshop the participants firstly dreamed and later on drew the tree, that symbolises their existence in the present.

Music playing and guided by the trainer, they contacted with their personal facts of their life; resources, personal development, connection with the environment.

A short presentation for each one’s tree followed

Participants were really enthousiastic!

Τhe workshop took place during the weekly meetings for the ARTS project, in 20th of April 2016.

ARTS in ANTIGONE creates paintings and friendships

The exhibition of paintings ESCAPES for the volunteer Dimitra Laiou, is fact!

The group of the volunteers worked on the preparation, construction, dissemination and support of the exhibition.

“My art comes mainly from memory and talking over all the memory struggling to touch unfulfilled.
Behind all is the solitude …. beside the lonely struggle to overcome is the struggle to overcome others.
Painting is for me a way of expressing and communicating. By traveling.
Each picture hides a story.

Art is my escape and the flight is now possible …”

The group of ANTIGONE in Greece is creating…..art!

We listen to each other, we feel others’ work, we express ourselves through arts. And all started 2 years ago, when we first met. And now, it continues after our meeting in Skelleftea, where we learnt how to use our senses, feel the things, travel to painters’ mind.

Alternative Routes to Success!