Fira Mediterrània takes part in an event on educational arts projects
On Saturday 22 February, Fira Mediterrània of Manresa will be taking part in an event organised by ConArte Internacional in Girona to talk about culturally-themed educational projects. During the event, over 20 educational arts projects are due to be presented, with themes based on using the arts in training programmes for young people, adults and communities, in schools, neighbourhoods, cities and on the international scene.
On Saturday 22 February, Fira Mediterrània of Manresa will be taking part in an event organised by ConArte Internacional in Girona to talk about culturally-themed educational projects. During the event, over 20 educational arts projects are due to be presented, with themes based on using the arts in training programmes for young people, adults and communities, in schools, neighbourhoods, cities and on the international scene. Fira’s contribution will be focused on presenting the lines of work that the Manresa event engages with in terms of these types of projects.
Presentations will be made following the PechaKucha method, in which each project has a limit of 20 slides and approximately 20 seconds per slide. This means that each presentation will last 6 minutes and 40 seconds at the most. The basic idea behind the PechaKucha method is to enable people’s ideas and different projects to be shared in a single working session, keeping interest levels high and grabbing the audience’s attention with a series of extremely concise presentations. The event will be taking place at the Centre Cívic Pont Major in Girona, from 10 a.m. through to 2 p.m.
ConArte is a non-profit organisation set up nearly 8 years ago in Mexico by a group of business owners, educators, artists, communicators and education and culture professionals; Con Arte is headed by renowned Mexican cultural activist Lucina Jiménez. The headquarters of ConArte Internacional has been based in Girona since 2013, and the organisation has already begun working on an art-based education project with several schools in Salt, a town with a large immigrant population.