Short-term (2 to 4 weeks) "arts project" project in Egypt

Gudran Association for Art and Development is a gathering of visual artists, writers, photographers, film makers, dramatists and musicians. We are motivated by what we can call "the sense of the artist's social responsibility", to abandon the traditional spaces of exhibiting and performing, to activate our artistic practice in the streets with all its variables and to have more contact with all categories of the society. We aim to support a positive social transformation through an artistic practice that develops the mechanisms of contemporary arts, to go out of the state of stagnancy surrounding them and to involve
more members of the society in the artistic process.
Gudran sees art as that neutral area which allows the existence of dialogue on different levels. So it tries hard to create a climate of dialogue that allows acceptance of the other, as a first stage to enable us to spread the culture of social peace, through artistic group
work.

The idea of this workcamp is to organise a gathering of young visual artists, hand crafters, artisans coming from different cultural backgrounds and from different countries to work along with Egyptian youth.
Together they will use their experience in artistic practices as an introduction for intercultural dialogue and to overcome cultural, ethnic, religious, and political differences. This will be done through their interaction together and with the streets, they will use the public spaces as a scenary for their artistic practices.

The afternoon program will be full of cultural and artistic activities.

Alexandria.

The participants will be accommodated in a youth hostel in Alexandria.

150 Euros to be paid upon arrival.