Spring Kids University

Mon Apr 25, 2016 to
Thu Apr 28, 2016

08:30 to 13:00

Location

ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation
64 Ayion Omoloyiton Avenue
Nicosia, Nicosia 1080

Description

ARTos Foundation is proud to present this year’s Spring Kids University, entitled “METAPOLIS: Intervention in the City | Reclaiming Public Space”, which will take place on the 25 - 28 April 2016, at ARTos Foundation, within the framework of our actions for the Creative Europe Programme – ARTECITYA 2014 – 2018, and with the support of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Nicosia Municipality and the Department of Forests.

Through a series of participatory workshops for children between the ages of 6 - 12 years old, Kids University aims to promote the knowledge and experience that help to create strong personalities and creative and critical thinkers, with free will and confidence.

Kids University is a workshop for curious and charismatic children, which has been taking place at the ARTos Foundation since 2005 with great success. Every winter, spring and summer, educators and professionals from the fields of the arts and sciences, create a specially designed programme where children have the opportunity to develop both of their brain hemispheres: the creative hemisphere and the logical hemisphere, as to be able to envision and materialize their dreams through creative expression, scientific knowledge as well as the strengthening of self-confidence. The citizens of tomorrow with these characteristics can communicate, coexist harmoniously and can create a world that takes the humankind one step further.

For the 2016 trilogy, Kids University partners up with the Creative Europe Programme ARTECITYA 2014 – 2018, for a series of actions focusing on the transformation and improvement of our own districts and neighbourhoods. The Spring Kids University, will draw inspiration from architecture, technology, science and social impact. Together, we will reclaim our own ’urban green areas’ through tree & herb-planting, and create our alternative, self-lit ‘public-furniture’ with the use of discarded and re-usable materials, which will then be installed around the city. Through the use of collaborative processes we will attempt to create effective results in public spaces and raise awareness.

25 – 28 April 2016, 8:30 – 13:00 *
Participation fee: € 100 (€80 for siblings) **

For registrations and further information please contact us at: 99 611 159 and 22445455.

* The children can be at ARTos from 7:30 until 14:30 and engage in creative activities with our instructors.

**Please register by 22/04/2016