Cool Tour - Festival of Culture for Children

Cool Tour - Festival of Culture for Children

The second year of the "Cool Tour Festival" aims towards creating a pool of cultural thematic events for children, families and school communities through: - strengthening the c...

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  • 30/10/2014

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The second year of the "Cool Tour Festival" aims towards creating a pool of cultural thematic events for children, families and school communities through: - strengthening the c...

The second year of the "Cool Tour Festival" aims towards creating a pool of cultural thematic events for children, families and school communities through:

- strengthening the contact between schools and families in order to facilitate access to Culture and develop equal opportunities in education, through artistic activities outside of the normal school timetable;

- creating the opportunity for discussion and process of reflection about pertinent matters in children's lives, covering, their own and others' identity, the power of image and publicity, human diversity, family context and existing prejudices;

- educating through theater, forum theater, films and a guided tour through a maze - activities which provoke children's critical thinking and lead them towards embracing tolerance, consciousness, responsibility and freedom of choice.;

- inspiring and motivating towards creating debate and  further activities within schools and family homes;

- contributing towards the cultural life in the city of Faro, making local cultural projects more visible;

The activities this year include:

- a themed Maze at the Amarelarte Association (a kind of guided tour);
- A children's play (forum theater) in the form of a huge TV: TV frentex porque as crianças merecem;
- Two plays created by children;
- and a film made by children.

This year, through our themed maze children will be encouraged to experiment, act, dance and play while discovering different characters throughout the course of the maze. We will have, for example, the Girl with Candy Floss Hair whose problem reflects bullying. Children will be asked to interact with the many characters they come across, solve problems and generate debate. Our key methodology is based on forum-theater, promoting participation from the spectators, who will contribute for the final result.

The theme of this year's festival: our own and others' identity, the power of image and publicity, family context, friendship and bullying, human diversity and existing prejudice.

The Festival brings together art and educational professionals, volunteers, children from different ethnic groups (mainly the gypsie community with who we have been working with in the past); schools and local comunities; and will take place from the 20th to the 25th of October 2014.

 

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If you would like to know more about our Festival do not hesitate to get in touch with us, we will be more than happy to walk you through it.

About the author

The festival was created and is managed by a group of different entities, all of which, work in Education and/or Arts having many years of experience.

The Festival is organized by Amarelarte - Associação Cultural e Recreativa, that has worked alongside children, teens and adults, giving great importance towards criativity development. Strongly beliving that the creative process brings positive influence to society. The Association develops, promotes and gives great value to a wide range of creative projects, such as, literature, workshops for kids, teens and adults, musical events, theater, dance, parties and themed festivals.

 

Our co-organizer is Mandacaru.

 

Our sponsors include:

Community Centre Horta de Areia:

Theater of the Opressed Kids Group: Força da Horta e os palhacinhos

Bagatela

Faro's Public Library

Cineteatro Louletano.

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Budget and due dates

We want to grow and improve our festival in a sustainable way and for that we need 800 euros that we will distribute in the following way: - material for the maze and children's play - TV Frentez: 100 euros; - food expenses for the team and volunteers: 200 euros - local transportation: 150 euros - communication and publicity: 150 euros - and financial compensation for the team: 200 euros (without this amount, the festival will still take place on a volunteer basis). The Festival is already being promoted and publicized and we have been rehearsing since June. This amount will also allow us to improve on our working conditions and allow us to pay ourselves back for expenses that have been, so far, paid out of out own pockets. The project is already running and since March of this year, the team has had constant meetings in order to make everything go as planned. The financial help that we hope to get will mainly be used in refunding existing expenses. Last year, thanks to the 500-euro grant by DG Culture and the entry fees, we managed to break even, but the amount of work involved outstretched the available resources and we could not produce wages. We do not expect to profit by this event, but the festival will attract an even larger public this year and the team has inevitably expanded. Promotion/Publicity: Faro's Public Library has already included the festival in it's cultural agenda. We have a poster ready that is already being publicized through our social networks. Activities: the maze is under construction - sceneries and character-building. The TV-Frentex play already has a script and rehearsals take place weekly. Depending on the available budget we will possibly be working with/re-using the props and sceneries already constructed for last year's event. Children's Plays (Theater Club of the Amarelarte Association / Os palhacinhos of the Mandacaru cooperative): are in progress with the children. The rehearsals are weekly. Kids Film of the Amarelarte Association: is set and ready to be shown to the public.

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