European Day of Artistic Creativity // Activities 2019

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City	Skopje
Country	Macedonia
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• 21.March 2019 Exhibition "PORTALI 2019"-Portals 2019 Museum of the city of Skopje/PaPa Café Galery-Skopje The Project is continuation of already started exhibition , aiming through the presentation of the work of another new young artists from Skopje, to depict the potential of the contemporary artistic scene in Macedonia. So, is an entry into the diverse world of the art through a selecton of recent works of contemporary art made by 8-10 young artists who act locally and globally with their works in varous media. They are linked conceptually in a presentation of their views that are inspired by different segments of everyday life and they are critically oriented towards the problems created by the speed of overall development, changes in the environment and communications. As a kind of open portal- metaphor of the city of Skopje, the city which is a symbol of history that was built on the basis of attempts and mistakes, perseverance and struggle for survival. The gates are open to new upgrades and researches where we can interfere with our ideas and correct the trajectory in a direction that promises new discoveries for all of us. The is going to be the main event/exhibition to be presented at March 21th, 2019, marking the Day of European Creativity in Skopje. 10 March-10 april 2019 Open Study- 2 Educational Workshops-ReBreathSk Botanical Garden Skopje The attempt to solve part of the enormous problem of air pollution in the city of Skopje can be achieved through necessary education of youth for “the language of art and science” as a powerful tool for accentuating the conditions that we face in everyday life and finding creative ways like to change the way of our own behavior that will affect the behavior of others around us. ArhiFACT-Skopje, in cooperation with PMF-Botanical Garden-Skopje, Art Studio-Tetovo, students from secondary schools in Skopje and students from several informal art and design academies in Skopje, through a series of painting / research workshops will try to produce art / design products to promote the following values. • Valuation of herbal resources as natural purifiers of the urban environment - which possesses our environment in the form of "relict dendro" specimens and endemic plants. -Through a research process of painting-drawing (conducted by children aged 7-14 years-students of Art group-Tetovo) resulting in: A set of handmade drawings sketches of selected plant species with which they would produce promotional materials for the campaign - ReBreathSk. The promotional materials would consist of: *"Herbarium-print" printed in the form of a set of 15-20 postcards, (the cards will be manually printed on recycled paper - prepared in the Workshop for children with special needs from Gevgelija); **Digital QR codes - (printed on postcards) - instead of printed texts (indicating the possibilities of modern technologies to reduce the use of unnecessary amount of paper) for detailed descriptions of botanical details of herbs and their environmental values. *** Designing promotional posters for the protection of herbal resources and their promotion as lungs of the city • Values of anti-consumerism expressed through the creative way of redesigning and reusing materials - labeled as pollutants to the environment. -Through a design craft workshop (conducted with students from non-formal arts and design academies in Skopje for 4 weeks, and under the mentorship of architects and designers from ArhiFACT) as a final product would be: * preparation of Art Bark Pavilion-constructed by the re-use of old building elements / old windows and doors, -as the core of the city in which continuous education will be carried out to promote preservation of Macedonia’s biodiversity, but also as an alternative space for presentation for further art installations and art / research projects and exhibitions of many non-governmental organizations. 15 april 2019 Exhibition Caleidoscope 2019 Art Bark Pavilion-Botanical garden Skopje Multimedia exhibition of two young photographers to be held in the Art Bark pavilion - located in the park of the Botanical Garden in Skopje - on the topic "The effects of “greenhouse" and our city ". 16th april 2019 Talk debate Art Bark Pavilion-Botanical garden Skopje Museum of the city of Skopje/ PaPa Café Galery • Talk Debate - with the theme "Creative arts as a tool for the idea of cleaner cities" will participate all the artists from Portali 2019 with their ideas for art creative city