AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Art & Dialogue Engagement in art and engagement through art
Building new art audiences and new platforms for art engagement

Elan Interculturel
88 Avenue Ledru Rollin 75012
PARIS
France
t +33 619 41 47 32
vkabov@gmail.com
http://www.elaninterculturel.com

Art & Dialogue is a 5 day long fully EU subsidised course under Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme

Eligibility: Curators, Art Educators working with and developing art audiences and related projects

Course Dates & Location:
Paris 16-20 April 2012

Deadline for Applications:
15 September 2011

Art & Dialogue is a 5 day long fully EU subsidised course designed for art and education professionals. In 2012 Art & Dialogue will run in Paris from 16 - 20 April, 2012, with applications closing on 15 September, 2011.

The course is designed to assist educators to:
• develop new models and approaches for dealing with challenges of bringing contemporary audiences to art and bringing art to general audiences in their own countries and beyond;
• build resources, skills and opportunities to develop new approaches and paradigms in addressing new audiences;
• work with art as a forum for inter-cultural dialogue and the socio-political importance of art in development of civil society in a culturally heterogeneous Europe.

Please find course outline and details here: ( ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=24680# ) (NB the listing is for our 2011 course, 2012 update available shortly on line and to applicants on request)

Professionals working in institutions involved in art adult and secondary education, in the EU (and other elgible countries* except France) will have their full cost of participation subsidised by the Gruntdtvig mobility grant (this includes cost of travel, accommodation, per diems etc).

To be eligible participants must submit an application by 15 September 2011: ec.europa.eu/education/grundtvig/doc874_en.htm

The course is intended both as a formal learning programme and an opportunity to share experiences and develop projects with fellow art and education professionals in one of worlds most artistically, culturally and ethnically diverse cities.

*Grundtvig eligible countries:Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Please contact course co-ordinator Valerie Kabov ( vkabov@gmail.com ) for details of the programme and for assistance with the grant applications.

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