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9 contracts have been signed for the creation of new professional art and culture products for children and youth audiences

After the first round of the Open Call „Support for the Creation of Professional Art and Cultural Products for Children and Youth” Ministry of Culture has signed 9 contracts with project applicants to realize projects in the EEA grants programme „Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Cultural Cooperation”.

Projects recieved co-financing from the Programme in the amount of 1 905 052,77 euro. Within the framework of the approved projects, new professional contemporary art and culture products will be created in the field of circus, music, dance, cinema, literature and theater, as well as the development of an audience, will also be promoted.

Eduards Veidenbaums memorial museum Kalāči, Cēsis district municipality Administration of Priekuli Association together with National project partner from Latvia – association (NGO) “Sansusī”, and with Donorstate project partner from Norway – „Morten Bruun” till June 30, 2023 will realize the project “MORE LIGHT! Exhibition and art residencies in Eduards Veidenbaums museum Kalāči: youth building a harmonious and just society”.

Project goal is to reveal the high potential of art and culture in improving the mental health and well-being of young people. Project will take place in the Eduards Veidenbaums memorial museum Kalāči. By remembering the poet who is included in the school programs and getting to know him as a young man with a complex inner world, youth of today will have the opportunity to get to know themselves, their peers and learn social-emotional skills.

During the project through the close cooperation of Latvian and Norwegian specialists in the art, culture and health sectors with the youth of the Cēsis region, an interactive museum exhibition, 4 contemporary works of art and a drama workshop will be created. With the support of the “Latvian School Bag” program, the exhibitions and the workshop created in the project will be available to Latvian school youth both during the project and in the following years.

The project will not only improve the availability of professional contemporary art for Latvian youth, especially in the Cēsis region, but will also expand the understanding of the importance of art and culture in our lives. Audience development events will be created not only for the target audience of young people, but also for professionals in the fields of education and culture, who most directly provide and create encounters with art and culture for young people.

SIA “Binoklis” together with the Donorstate partner from Norway – Limited liability company (AS) “Stargate Media” till March 1, 2023 will realize the project “Virtual Reality play “Briefly About the Universe.

The goal of the project is to create and record a virtual reality scientific show “Briefly About the Universe”. The show will be distributed in Latvian schools with mobile sets of VR glasses. The show will consist of four 15-20 minute long episodes, each episode will be dedicated to one scientific topic. Scientists, teachers and teaching methodology experts will be involved in the creation of the content of the show. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in the creation of this show.

Association “Riga International Film festival” together with the Donorstate partner from Norway – Norwegian Federation of Film Societies Norsk filmklubbforbund till July 16, 2023 will realize the project “RIGA IFF Film Club”.

RIGA IFF Film Club will be available throughout the territory of Latvia for a series of video lessons and Norwegian films for children and young people. During the classes of the Film club, the audience will be able to learn how a movie is made and what different employees of the film industry do, such as directors, screenwriters and costume designers. We hope that the acquired knowledge will be useful for the new generation to become attentive viewers – not only of cinema, but also of the entire world of moving images, including television and internet social media.

NGO “I-DEJAS MĀJA” (I-DANCE HOUSE) together with the Donorstate partner from Norway – theater company K:13 (former Kompani13) till December 15, 2022 will realize the project “Art Activism: Take Part, Take Care. PARTICIPATORY ART EXHIBITION & INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE.”

I-DEJAS MĀJA in cooperation with the Norwegian theater company K:13 from Bergen, creates a participatory art project. As part of the project, there is a guest performance of the K:13 theater, a seminar and workshops on the methods of interactive theater and participatory art. The main event of the project is the exhibition, which, with the participation of the visitors, becomes a performance, it is exhibition=performance. The audience, engaging in cooperative games, complements and comments on the objects of the exhibition, discusses and plays out situations. The name of the exhibition=performance <<Līdzinieki>> emphasizes the principles of participation and equality. The use of graphic signs in the title encodes the dynamics of our time – rapid movement, accelerated review, comparisons. “Līdzinieki” are accomplices. Working together for a green, competitive and inclusive Europe!

NGO “New Theatre Institute of Latvia” together with a Donorstate partner from Norway – Rosendal International Theatre till June 1, 2023 will realize the project “THE SHAKE DOWN.”

In February 2022, New Theatre Institute of Latvia and the Norwegian “Rosendal Teater” will launch an international cooperation project and the training program for new curators “Apvērsums/The shake down”. Within fourteen months, ten young people from Latvia and Norway aged between 16 and 18 will learn how to organize festivals, participate in online seminars, get to know the professional environment of contemporary performing arts, follow local and international art events, as well as go on experience exchange trips to project Donorstate partner. The new curators will independently organize two international performing arts festivals – the “Homo Novus” program “Apvērsums/The shake down” in September 2022 in Riga and “Rosendal SHAKE DOWN” in April 2023 in Trondheim. By giving the opportunity to take responsibility and temporarily become the determinants of the cultural life of the city, the organizers of the project want to promote the involvement of young people in solving important issues for the society, reduce the differences in knowledge, experience and financial opportunities and thus make art processes accessible to as diverse groups of society as possible.

SLLC “Rigas cirks” together with the Donorstate partner from Norway – NVO “Acting for Climate” till July 31, 2023 will realize the project “Circus for Climate”.

The international project “Circus for Climate” brings to the fore the topics of nature protection and ecology among young people. Contemporary circus and comic art will meet in it, through which young people in the regions of Latvia will work together to study issues of climate change, sustainability and art activism. During the project, in several creative laboratories, artists, experts, local professionals from the regions, together with young people, will study and examine issues and ideas related to art activism. The content created in these workshops will be used as a source of inspiration for the creation of a comic, which will ultimately result in a circus performance created especially for the environment, in which circus artists from Latvia and Norway will participate.

SIA „Kinoteatris Bize” together with a Donorstate partner from Norway – AS “Apagon” till June 30 2023 will realize the project – “Youth film masterclasses and teachers’ education.”

Cinema “Kino Bize” creates an educational program for young people and teachers, the purpose of which is to increase interest and knowledge about the art of cinema. The program will consist of several parts: firstly, two cycles of six lectures for teachers will be implemented, during which educators will learn the basics of film theory under the guidance of professional film researchers and lecturers. Secondly, a digital platform will be created, where a wide catalog with specially developed methodical materials will be available, inviting teachers to watch Latvian films together with students and then creatively and fully incorporate what they have seen into the general learning process.

Finally, Kino Bize will organize tours all over Latvia and online recordings, offering students practical filmmaking master classes. They will be led by media producer and film pedagogue Daniels Lisigurskis from Norway with the aim of getting young people interested in cinema not only by watching films and theory, but also by making them.

NGO „Skaņu Mežs Association for Adventurous Music and Film Art” together with a Donorstate partner from Norway – NGO “Insomnia Festival” till November 30, 2023 will realize the project “LYRA (amalgam of two words, one Norwegian, one Latvian – Lytte (listen in Norwegian) and Radīt (create in Latvian). Result is then LYRA – referring both to the ancient musical instrument and a small northern hemisphere star constellation”.

The aim of the project is to encourage children and young people to learn the skill of listening to experimental music and the skill of listening to music and environmental sounds in the broadest sense, as well as to create music using the unusual and playful nature of experimental music. The project consists of a listening module, which consists of concerts and new works, as well as a creation module, which consists of master classes, lectures and creative cooperation of children and young people with artists.

Imants Ziedonis’ Foundation “Viegli” together with a Donorstate partner from Norway – The Cultural Schoolbag Nordland, Nordland County Council till June 1, 2023 will realize the project „Me, A Human Being in A World”, a tool for fostering contemporary culture processes.”

The goal of Imants Ziedonis’ Foundation “Viegli” project “Me, A Human Being in A World” is to educate children and young people about contemporary art and culture, as well as to promote involvement in cultural and artistic processes.

In order to educate and make interest in society as a whole, in the first half of 2022, Latvian artists will create interactive objects of contemporary art in five regions of Latvia. On the other hand, children and young people will experience specially designed workshops where they will learn more about contemporary culture, literature and its development today.

In September 2022, the project team will go on an expedition to Norway to get acquainted with the Norwegian approach how to teach about culture to children and young people – the “Cultural School Bag.” In Norway there will be an exchange of experience on the development of cultural products for students and contemporary cultural trends in Latvia, Norway and the world as a whole.

At the end of the project, the course of the foundation “Viegli” in education “Ziedoņa class” will create four cultural education lessons and additional materials about professional contemporary art and culture. Students, educational experts and artists will participate in the creation of qualitative cultural education content, thus promoting students’ understanding of the writer Imants Ziedonis and contemporary art.

We remind you that on 4 January the Ministry of Culture launched the second round of the open call “Support for the Creation of Professional Art and Cultural Products for Children and Youth” of the EEA Grants Regional Development and Culture Programme with total available funding of 1 276 941 euro. The goal of the EEA Grants open call is to provide support for the development of cultural and artistic events that improve the accessibility of professional contemporary art and culture to children and youth in all regions of Latvia and to increase the involvement of children and youth in art and culture.

Project applications for the second open call “Support for the Creation of Professional Art and Cultural Products for Children and Youth” may be submitted until March 7, 2022. The implementation of the projects will be until April 30, 2024.

More info: https://eeagrants.lv/en/2022/01/04/open-call-support-for-the-creation-of-professional-art-and-cultural-products-for-children-and-youth-no-2/

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