The Arts in Education Forum thematizes art as a medium of youth work and intercultural dialogue using the example of photo projects from the Middle East and Europe. Representatives of youth art initiatives present their projects and discuss artistic methods and funding structures. Participants include the filmmaker Mai Masri, the photographer Peter Fryer (Save the Children Fund, London), Jack Persekian, William Wells and Andrea Schmelz (Netzwerk Migration).
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Full Program
Arts in Education Forum
Photography in Youth Work
Forum
>>>Friday, April 4, 2003, 3-8 p.m. 3-5 p.m.
Project presentation
Memory, Identity and Creative Expression in Middle Eastern Youth Work
Mai Masri, film director, Arab Resource Center for Popular Art, Beirut
Peter Fryer, photographer, project manager, Save the Children Fund, London
Jack Persekian, curator, Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
6-8 p.m.
Podium discussion
Youth and New Media: Between Cultural Exchange and Aesthetic Training
Peter Fryer, photographer and project manager, Save the Children Fund, London
Jack Persekian, curator of the DisORIENTation exhibit, gallery owner, director of the Al-Ma´mal Foundation of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
Maren Niemeyer, journalist, coordinator of the photography project “With Other Eyes“, Kosovo
William Wells, gallery owner, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
Andrea Schmelz, Netzwerk Migration in Europa, Berlin
Philipp Abresch, initiator of the photography project “Imagine“, GTZ
Moderator: Alia Rayyan, political scientist, Berlin
For further information and detailed press materials:
Petra Stegmann, telephone: 030-397 87 291, fax: 030 - 397 87 159, e-mail: stegmann@hkw.de
House of World Cultures, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
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