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“Art Bridge“ project engages organizations working in the field of culture, including libraries, from four countries: Poland, Italy, Spain and Turkey. It is a direct answer to a consequences of a covid-19 pandemic, which caused a significant rise of mental and emotional problems among seniors and adults 50+ from a group of high risk health issues. Spreading of the virus brought fear and anxiety in many people from this group across the world. Our project aims to create a set of creative international meetings during which we will exchange ideas and knowledge about art therapy working with different media such as painting, ceramics and sculpture. We will create the common platform to exchange good practices, synthetize new methods of working to implement them in our local community. Various activities and workshops are directed at exchange of a good practices and developing creativity and cultural expressiveness among participants, using art therapy as a way to deal with difficult and unexpected situations like COVID-19 pandemic. Project is focused towards implementation of joint initiatives promoting cooperation, peer learning and exchanges of experience at European level, creating an awareness about the problem of social exclusion, especially among seniors as a high risk group, during difficult times of a social isolation during pandemic. We planned activities such as painting workshops, the talk about art therapy methods and problem of anxiety and how to deal with it in a creative way, creative workshops concentrated on a themes of local heritage painting styles, sculpture workshops developing sensory skills, multimedia workshops aiming at the multicultural exchange between adults and seniors, developing showing how to use different platforms to connect online and discuss issues, play interesting games, learn new skills and develop passions through internet, workshops about healthy and colorful eating and how it affects mental and emotional state of being. We planned also talk about social exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine of the people that are sick and how they cannot feel left out. In result of those activities and exchange of a good practices we expecting to develop a new competences and skills to work with people in difficult emotional situations, socially excluded and left out during the pandemic of COVID-19 and therefore mostly affected through alienation. We will be creating a safe and comfortable culturally open environment for this target group, and bring them back to a social life, creating a bridge that they can walk on and connect with other people, engaging in a creative activities and sharing their knowledge, feeling and developing new talents and skills, enjoying the senior years of their life. We will create a publication with a know how about art therapy and its influence on health post-pandemic human, as well as short essays on creative thinking, social inclusion and cultural awareness all based on the ideas and information that we will develop throughout the project duration. The publication will be provided under the terms of CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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