The Artemisszió Foundation has been operating since 1998 as a non-profit organization of public interest, recently with 17 employees. The founders were young anthropologists who wanted to apply their theoretical knowledge and the results of their scientific research to foster social and personal development and open-minded thinking. We are aiming to achieve our objectives through the research, promotion and use of the theory and practice of intercultural communication.
Our goals are:
- to encourage continuous dialogue and interaction between culturally, ethnically and socially diverse groups and to foster their mutual understanding,
- to support the social integration of socially and culturally disadvantaged groups,
- to strengthen scientific and cultural relations internationally
- to develop and disseminate intercultural training courses, educational materials and methods
The mission of the Foundation is to provide an opportunity for the widest possible section of society to take part in activities that develop competencies that strengthen relations among people, improve communication and conflict-resolution skills, and contribute to the development of tolerance, mutual understanding and cooperation. For us it is a priority to include socially disadvantaged groups – the unemployed, people living in rural areas, the Roma and immigrants – to increase their equal opportunities and to fight social exclusion. Our activities include intercultural trainings, global education workshops, school cooperation, compilation and publications of educational materials, youth mobility programs, using arts as tools for social inclusion.
Our latest international project about forum theatre and other art forms for adaptation was Ariadne. In this project we organized forum theatre and creative media workshops for migrants and local people to help migrants’ adaptation. We assessed the impact of the activities on their adaptation process. Before the workshops we collected and wrote theories on art and adaptation. The final result of the project is a handbook about theory, practice and a toolkit with a lot of exercises and games.
More info: http://www.ariadne4art.eu/
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Another previous international project was “Play to change” training for youth workers about theatre. It served as a tool for social inclusion which included also forum theatre.
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We had some local projects using forum theatre in poor small villages in the North of Hungary. In the Let’s act against poverty project our aim was to build and develop diverse local communities, empower them and create a space where they can react and act on their everyday individual and collective problems.
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