Gudran for Art & Development
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Our Activities
A- Project of developing the fishermen village in El-Max – Alexandria:
1.Reforming the village program:
This part works on reforming the village, involving its population and through their vision of the future of their village, aiming to have sustainable developmental efforts there.
2.Supporting young artists program:
This part work on activating the social responsibility of young artists through creating spaces for them to have direct contacts with the society. That is through Gudran approach of using art as an introduction to development and social change.
In both these parts, Gudran works on organizing different activities, which are:
a) Daily artistic workshops in the fisherman village El-Max for different categories.
b) Organizing a number of international artistic wok camps.
c) Holding some international artistic meetings.
d) Organizing a program for abolishing illiteracy of reading, writing and computer in the village.
This part works on reforming the village, involving its population and through their vision of the future of their village, aiming to have sustainable developmental efforts there.
2.Supporting young artists program:
This part work on activating the social responsibility of young artists through creating spaces for them to have direct contacts with the society. That is through Gudran approach of using art as an introduction to development and social change.
In both these parts, Gudran works on organizing different activities, which are:
a) Daily artistic workshops in the fisherman village El-Max for different categories.
b) Organizing a number of international artistic wok camps.
c) Holding some international artistic meetings.
d) Organizing a program for abolishing illiteracy of reading, writing and computer in the village.
3.Program of empowering youth of the village to manage development in their community:
It aims to sustain the youth's ability to administrate the development process, including training youth in the same local crafts needed by the village, such as maintaining boats for young men and embroidery or artistic sewing for young women.
B- The Café project:
It aims to sustain the youth's ability to administrate the development process, including training youth in the same local crafts needed by the village, such as maintaining boats for young men and embroidery or artistic sewing for young women.
B- The Café project:
This project aims to exploit the café to be an untraditional artistic and cultural space, entirely opened to the street with all its variables. Gudran attempts, through this space, to develop the café attendants, especially youth, as well as creating a new area for young artists to exist in the society.
C- The project if publicizing and using art as an introduction to development in new and different areas:
This project aims to publicize Gudran's methodology of work, motivating artists to work directly in there communities and emphasizing on importing of development areas with special and unique character.These areas which are endangered with marginalization and extinction.
C- The project if publicizing and using art as an introduction to development in new and different areas:
This project aims to publicize Gudran's methodology of work, motivating artists to work directly in there communities and emphasizing on importing of development areas with special and unique character.These areas which are endangered with marginalization and extinction.
Our Vision & Goals
Our Vision
Towards a society enjoying a rich cultural and artistic life and a heightened ability to capitalize on it's resources to develop itself in a sustainable manner and to expand it's horizons and open up to other cultures and societies and whose members live in an aesthetic environment enabling them to realize their artistic potential in order to enhance their lives and create a better future.
Objectives
Towards a society enjoying a rich cultural and artistic life and a heightened ability to capitalize on it's resources to develop itself in a sustainable manner and to expand it's horizons and open up to other cultures and societies and whose members live in an aesthetic environment enabling them to realize their artistic potential in order to enhance their lives and create a better future.
Objectives
- Spreading the culture of dialogue and social peace among youth. Using art as an introduction to support the concepts of group work among them.
- Raising the awareness of the importance of developing areas of special and unique characteristics which suffer from danger of marginalization.
- Activating the concept of the artist’s social responsibility through providing on atmosphere that allows artists to work in the street with different sections of the society, aiming to have a better social reality.
Who We Are?
Gudran Association for arts and development is a group of artists including painters , musicians , artists of theatre and cinema makers , Who were motivated by what we can call “The social responsibility of the artist”, to abandon the galleries and go out to the street to make a contact with the daily-lived reality. Those young artists, with a group of fishermen from El-Max region and surrounding as well as a group of interested in development field, all of them came to an agreement on using art as an introduction to development owing to its active and extending effect on individuals and society as well.
