Workshop Reference number

Framing Florence: Photography as a bridge between times and cultures

Subject area: Artistic education, also including Arts and Crafts and Music

Other

Cultural heritage
Working language(s): EN
Target Group + Translation:
adults with a strong interest in photography and basic knowledges in this field. Preference given to over 50 years old women. Preference will be given to unemployed, less educated, people coming from rural ares, who have never been abroad.

Main activities Programme + Programme translation:
The workshop aims at visually exploring the city by following paths along which the coexistence of historical and modern elements are clearly visible. Concept: Each city necessarily reflects its history and its relationship with its inhabitants. Photography has a key role in visually exploring such relationship, giving an opportunity to investigate the liaison between man and the territory which he inhabits.

Lectures on digital photography and photo post-production (basic level) along with ICP lectures on the basic elements to realize a photo blog. Practice: street photography; photographic project concept development; excursions in various areas of the city of Florence; photo review, discussion, editing under TerraProject photographers supervision; daily uploading of the photo blog. Practical Arrangements: the participants will reach Florence by air. They will be accommodated in Florence, in close proximity to the workshop venue, where they will spend 6 nights. Lectures will take place in a classroom at Multiverso, in via del Campo d'Arrigo 42/r

Florence (http://www.multiverso.biz/) equipped with everything needed for the workshop activities. In this structure the participants will be also provided with full board service (lunch and dinner).

Workshop Organiser: Associazione Culturale Fotografica TerraProject
Contact details: via Fornace di Troghi, n 38/12

50067 Rignano sull''Arno (Firenze)

IT-ITALY

E-mail: [e-mail]

www.terraproject.net

Workshop Reference number: 2012-1-IT2-GRU13-37369
Venue: Venice Mestre Date of the Workshop: 27/01/2013 - 04/02/2013

The E-Factor: Employability, Empoerment, Entrepreneurship and Europe

Subject area: Active citizenship

Methods to increase students motivation

European citizenship and European dimension
Working language(s): IT
Target Group + Translation:
The Workshop targets 20 participants (2 from the hosting country) who are unemployed or in very unstable working situations.

Main activities Programme + Programme translation:
Unemployment is one of the most relevant challenges in contemporary Europe and we believe that many efforts must be done in order to promote efficient employability strategies. E-Factor wants to be a step towards the inclusive growth by promoting a high-employment economy and active citizenship and investing in skills. Concretly, the project aims to provide unemployed persons a learning experience where they can increase their E-Factor, that mix of attitudes, skills and knowledge that increase the possibilties to become "employable".

The learning outcomes for the participants are: increased self-esteem and confidence through empowerment methods - improvement of Learning to Learn Key Competence, that is the base to be an independent learner and to be able to evaluate what learning path needs to be followed in order to get a certain objective - to get to know about self-employement and entrepreneurship through the development of their sense of intitiative (key competence) - to improve their civic competence (key competence); to improve their ability to be able to participate in society and voice their concerns, ensure their rights and the rights of others - to be informed about the Mobility possibilities offered by the EU funds and about the chance to work in Europe. The Organisers will be in charge for the accommodation and travelling so that there will be no costs for participants. Participants will be accommodated in a single and/or double room hotel accessible to people with disabilities.

Workshop Organiser: Eduforma srl
Contact details: Via Regia 88

35030 Vigonza

IT-ITALY

E-mail: [e-mail]

www.eduforma.it

Workshop Reference number: 2012-1-IT2-GRU13-37358
Venue: Forlimpopoli (FC) Date of the Workshop: 06/08/2013 - 11/08/2013

Playing Nyckelharpa: an orchestral experience between European folk music and contemporary compositions

Subject area: Cultural heritage

Artistic education, also including Arts and Crafts and Music

Pedagogy and didactics
Working language(s): EN
Target Group + Translation:
Musicians of different levels, in particular nyckelharpa players as well as composers writing contemporary music for nyckelharpa on a basis of folk music.
Main activities Programme + Programme translation:
The nyckelharpa is a bowed instrument with keys to change the pitch. One of the earliest depictions (1408) has be found in Siena, Italy. Since the Baroque period, the instrument was played only in the region of Uppland in Sweden as a folk instrument. In the 20th century, the nyckelharpa has been preserved from an impending final demise primarily by two exceptional Swedish musicians: August Bohlin (1877 - 1949), who improved the instrument technically to be played fully chromatically, and Eric Sahlström (1912 - 1986), who set an entirely new musical stimulus with an improved technique and many own compositions. Today, the nyckelharpa is played worldwide by a fast increasing number of musicians and in more and more musical styles. Outside Sweden, there is no traditional nyckelharpa repertoire. In the pan-European folk revival since the 70s, many musicians composed new tunes on traditional roots. Since Bartok and Kodaly, contemporary composers often rely on folk music of their countries. These different trends we will assemble in a verbal, medial and musical exchange about folk music in the respective home countries of the participants and contemporary compositions with their specific challenges of playing technique. We will contribute to a European repertoire for the nyckelharpa that does not neglect the roots but a the same time points a musical way for the future. The results of the musical work will be presented in a concert during which the media will be invited to report.

Participants are expected to contribute obligingly and enthusiastically whilst the workshop, as well as to achieve well-defined and manageable tasks as regards preparing and follow-up. The organizer selects the participants on the basis of criteria so that a productive working relationship appears to be possible.

Workshop Organiser: Associazione Culturale Scuola di Musica Popolare
Contact details: Piazza Fratti, 2

47034 FORLIMPOPOLI

IT-ITALY

E-mail: [e-mail]

http://www.musicapopolare.net

Workshop Reference number: 2012-1-IT2-GRU13-37427
Venue: Comprensorio del Cuoio – Regione Toscana - Italy

Date of the Workshop: 03/03/2013 – 09/03/2013