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Introduction
Isabelle Gatt currently works at the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education, University of Malta. Isabelle does research in creative processes, collective creations, community theatre. Her most recent publication is 'Exploring a Collection; inhabiting the Extraordinary Story of Oscar Wilde..'
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October 2015 - August 2017
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This article evaluates an EU-funded research project called Visual art education in new times: Connecting Art with REal life issues (CARE), which studies the infusion of principles of Education for Sustainable Development in art education. It describes the central goals of this project and presents some findings related to a group of teachers’ part...
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is one of the most severe health challenges that affect the lives of an increasingly large number of people in the World. Lack of information, stigma, and marginalization of people with HIV are serious challenges that prevent early diagnostic of HIV infecti...
Papers in this volume discuss successful pilot and experimental, art-based projects that reached out to sections of society with no or rare previous exposure to drama, music, or visual arts. The papers summarise previous research in their arts-based intervention area, identify success factors and risks and describe forms of assessment utilised and...
Theatre, process drama, creative drama, forum theatre all create a space and
modes in which to discover and explore ideas, opinions, emotions, relationships,
similarities, conflicts; in other words, a space and a mode to share and connect.
The processes involved, the strategies and conventions used, aid the participants
to become more socially com...
This toolkit is intended to help artists and arts researchers to plan, organise, document and evaluate participatory arts projects in different contexts. Its publication evolved in the
context of a Europe-wide research project funded by the EU Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020. This research project – Acting on the Margins: Arts as Soc...
This article reviews a recent rare Oscar Wilde Collection belonging to Francis Spiteri Paris entitled "Vanities".This was housed at the Storm Petrel Foundation exhibition house in Attard, Malta. The author goes through various exhibits and wanders into Oscar Wilde's story.
The Francis Spiteri Paris Collection Review by Isabelle Gatt Exploring a Collection; inhabiting the Extraordinary Story of Oscar Wilde. I walked down the avenue lined with a beautiful row of traditional Maltese town houses looking for the one belonging to the Storm Petrel Foundation, a foundation set up in 2013 to promote art, literature and popula...
Arts and crafts are connected with a variety of emotions, and the prospect of teaching these subjects could be a source of other emotions, not necessarily positive. This study explores the feelings and attitudes of student teachers towards arts and crafts prior to any training within their degree course and examines any changes that occur following...
This article documents the process of devising a mixed-media dance theatre production in Malta that was later presented at the Marinando Festival, in Italy. This is a unique Mediterranean youth theatre and film festival based on the theme of the sea. The festival is unique both for its educational objectives on the theme of the sea, fishing and nut...
Implementing innovation in schools requires careful orchestration of a host of dimensions and stakeholders. Stakeholders fundamental to change are teachers. This article explores the potential of an in-school professional development program at empowering teachers and consequently transforming their perceptions, attitudes, and classroom practice. T...
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· Developing multidisciplinary methods for capturing, assessing and harnessing the societal impact of the arts
· Reducing isolation amongst women, children and minority groups from peripheral EU regions through various forms of participation in the arts
· Educating women and children through various educational models and philosophies of participation that are informed by arts-based approaches
· Evaluate and develop new policy frameworks for using arts to overcome societal challenges
· Valuing and learning through alternative knowledge systems with the purpose of decolonising institutions, enable communication and implement policies
Expected Results
· Culturally marginalised and / or socially underprivileged groups will express their problems and collaborate on finding solutions through innovative arts education practices. Artists and art educators will be sensitised for and gain experience in catalysing social and educational empowerment. New methodologies developed will be used in their future educational and artistic work.
· Tackle exclusion and various forms of poverty by formulating, experimenting with and testing innovative art-based practices aimed at mutual understanding, dialogue and civic participation.
· Prioritise, recognise and promote the value of creativity within the peripheries of Europe. Acknowledge creative potentials and act on creative opportunities. Render audible and visible the voices from positions of marginality.
· The integration of the arts in the strategic overall and regional goals and policy making processes of the EU that relates to the fight against exclusion, tackling a variety of poverty issues (cultural, educational, skills and so on), and youth unemployment
ARTS AS SOCIAL SCULPTURE: POTENTIALS OF THE ARTS
The overall objective of the project is to address this European-wide lack of synthesis of the potential of the arts that can lead to generating alternative or unconventional solutions to societal challenges and policy development.
This project will identify, explore, collate, evaluate and analyse existing and new innovative productions, experiments and case studies from the perspective and the physical positioning of the European countries “on the margins”. AMASS, which is located in Europe’s culturally often underserved Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern regions, will set up 35 experiments in these peripheries to investigate the educational effects of the STEAM model in integrating the arts with science through participatory and multidisciplinary approaches.
