Community-based Arts and Culture Education for Young Artists and Cultural Workers
A group photo of mentors and their mentees.
Arts-ED seeks to be the bridge between young artists/cultural workers and underserved segments of youths so that they can access the arts as a means of self-expression and to help highlight community issues.
Therefore, a mentorship programme was initiated to train young artists and cultural workers on how to use creative arts and developmental approaches to engage the community for one 1-year (April 2021 - May 2022)
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE
To develop a pool of young artists and cultural workers to plan, design, and implement community-engaged arts works
To provide ongoing theoretical and practical platforms for young community-engaged artists and cultural workers to apply their learning to real projects
To facilitate mentorship by experienced artists and cultural workers
This mentorship programme successfully recruited a team of diverse young cultural workers/artists. They are then mentored by experienced artists and cultural workers - Wong Hoy Cheong (Photography), Aida Redza (Creative Movement), Tan Lay Heong (Contemporary Shadow Play) and Chen Yoke Pin (Community & Project Management) - to plan, design and implement community-based creative arts programmes for youths in selected communities using 3 art forms.
Mentees: Wan Atikah Wan Yusoff, Ooi Mee Quin, Muhammad Nazrien Jaimin, Liu Yong Sean, Luvenia Kalia, Kausalyaa Sugumarin, Jason Ong, Low Zhi Kai, Nurul Shahira Jamalluddin
The mentors conducted a series of training workshops to share the principles, concepts and case studies of Community-based Arts and Culture Education, as well as hands-on skills to co-create with the community using artistic approaches and creative/arts community engagement. From the learning, the mentees and mentors co-developed and facilitated a series of creative arts workshops for young people in Flat PPR Jalan Sungai, called Gempak 100.
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To find out more about the Community project (Gempak 100), click here.
This project is supported by Cultural Economy Development Agency (CENDANA) under the Arts Organisation Resilience Funding Programme 2021, Balai Seni Lukis Negara and Penang Education Council.