Program
DIVERSITY
Dia-Polis: The Other as Self and the Self as Other
(From dialogic understanding to reflective action and assessment awareness)
Purpose and Potential Results
The Cultural Program's aim is to urge the acceptance of diversity, in the light of the Convention on the Rights of the Children. It uses art and culture in a multicultural environment with the participation of artists and animators. The children who will participate will express themselves on how they see other places, through theatre, art crafts and digital technology.
The project of Dronton Katharsis Art Group will be implemented in three locations: the National Museum of Contemporary Art / EMST (Athens), the Historical Museum of Alexandroupolis / ISMO and the House of European History (HEH) (Brussels). The participants will meet three times during the last three months of 2021 (October, November, December).
In the first two meetings the groups of children of each city will work out a thematic approach based on specific exhibits, through exploratory-theatrical and artistic expression. The themes will be about the journey of the ‘self’ in relation to the ‘other’, as well as the routes of memory, through historic and contemporary cultural artefacts. They will highlight the diversity of cultural expression, as a ‘bridge’ of intercultural understanding. During the third meeting in December, the teams from Alexandroupolis, Athens and Brussels will meet in a joint final, digital event, to present their creations, which will reflect their vision for their own and for other cities.
Based on the expected results of the Program, we believe that children should enhance their artistic-aesthetic and intercultural criteria, developing intercultural communication in art and cultural environments. Criteria of evaluating the Program will be the recognition, the interactive understanding, the contemplative action and the awareness of the Other.
Scientific Director
Dr. Simos Papadopoulos
Associate Professor of Theatre Pedagogy
Democritus University of Thrace