ART CAMP IN SOLOTHURN

Name: ART CAMP IN SOLOTHURN
Start: 2017-07-16
End: 2020-08-08
Location: Solothurn, Switzerland

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Switzerland Art Education Children Manual work Art Education +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The intercultural art of “Text images” has been started in 2006 and will be carried out for the 16th time this year. The creative workshop plans to paint the “Text images” of young volunteer artists from different nations on canvas. The project promotes encounters and the mutual understanding between young people from different countries. By living together and especially by working together in the studio, the young people deal with political, social, cultural and artistic issues. www.schrift-bilder.ch.

💼 What the programme involves

International volunteers get together with young Swiss people to create small stretcher canvasses. Using brushes, ink pens, crayons or other tools, they bring their own short texts, poems, wordcollages etc. or those of famous literary figures from their country of origin to the picture designs. Their intercultural „Text images” are then made accessible to a wide audience during an exhibition during the second week of the camp. In addition, painting and design workshops will be offered for children and young people from Solothurn. The young international artists will be introduced to techniques and methods which they can transfer to the children.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The young artists will sleep in the scout house outside of Solothurn in St. Niklaus. They will travel by bus to their working place in a studio in Solothurn. The volunteers will cook together during the Workcamp.

📍 About the location

Solothurn is one of the most picturesque baroque towns in Switzerland where Italian beauty and French charm mixed with Swiss German realism meets. Solothurn is situated close to the Jura by the river Aare. In their leisure time volunteers can go for a hike to the top of the “Weissenstein” or visit the en-chanting canyon called “Verenaschlucht”.

🎒 Leisure activities

⚠️ Requirements

You will spend most of your time with the people in charge at the Intercultural creativity work-shop. Experience in creating arts is an advantage and it would be helpful if you are a student in art and active artist. All volunteers are required to send a personal MOTIVATION LETTER (please attach some photos of your own art works) showing their interest, experience and knowledge in the field of art. The Workcamp is an “Access 4 All” project and is open for one refugee. We expect a certain kind of independence. Age: 18-35!

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