PTM_Pass the Mic!
A workshop for adults
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Participation is free following online registration
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis
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Primary and secondary school teachers and anyone interested in the presentation of an educational practice – created in collaboration with adolescent refugees and migrants – that takes art as its tool.
Introduction
Can art act as a tool for decolonizing education?
Photo: Leonidas Panagopoulos
The overall objective of PTM_Pass the Mic! is to improve access to higher education in communities exposed to structural inequalities and renewed forms of racism connected to migratory phenomena through the creation of a Southern European network that bridges regional schools/organizations for migrants and refugees, contemporary arts professionals, and universities.
Residencies were undertaken by four independent artists, leading to the formation of two artistic pairings.For this workshop, the Pass the Mic! team will be talking about their experiences as part of the program, and tackling the following topics:
- The use of art as a tool for capturing personal truths as part of an interactive process.
- The transition to non-hierarchical, interactive forms of learning that exist outside traditional frameworks through the bolstering of a sense of agency.
- Exclusionary and inhibiting factors in the formation of a group.
- The dual role played by artists within a group, acting as a means of strengthening the dynamics of the educational process, and of deconstructing authority.
- The pandemic as both an impetus and an opportunity that highlights the need for collaborative work and reformulatory approaches for the resolution of problems.
- The mining of experiential narratives through interaction, and through the active creation of relationships based on an equal footing.
- The commonly-held call for freedom that arises from interactive educational practices, as construed within a pandemic setting.
The first phase of these residencies is now complete.
Centrale Fies in Dro, Italy hosted the results of the first phase of these residencies for artists and teenagers – undertaken in Athens, Venice, and Lisbon as part of the European PTM_Pass the Mic! program – at a three-day event filled with exhibitions, performances, and workshops.About the team
Through their ongoing dialogue and interaction with the teenagers taking part, Ermira Goro and Theo Prodromidis were inspired to create and present the performance piece “supernatural”, performed by Jessica Onyiyechi Anosike.
The second arts duo, comprising Fotini Gouseti and Alexandros Magd Asaad, presented a photographic installation with the title “The Address of All Sidewalks…”, a phrase taken from the poem by Nizar Qabbani that features in the work.
PTM_Pass the Mic!
Credits
This educational program is being run as part of the PTM_Pass the Mic! European network co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
