Seminar/workshop • Porto
V4 ACADEMY – The Safe Space Lab
In the continuation of its educational projects, V4 ACADEMY is proposing a unique workshop dedicated to children, involving new technologies and traditional animation. This is to be a learning tool for the young audiences (8 - 14 yrs) designed as an immersive experience where the participants can create their first animation film by using interactive technologies such as virtual reality, digital kinetics and robotic art.
Organized under the title of “The Safe Space Lab”, the workshop is planning on promoting topics of social inclusion to the young audience. Therefore, the group of participants will be formed predominantly of youth from migrant communities from Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia living in Portugal. This way, the participants will be introduced to the value of heritage and the diversity we can encounter in our society. Besides using an interactive way of creating the animation, the workshop becomes a safe space to build more inclusive characters and storylines - finding ways of making their work accessible to a differently abled audience, through the use of visual, sound or sensory tools.
Visegrad Film Hub invites two of its project partners, TRAKT, Slovakia and Primanima, Hungary, in a first time collaboration which will lead to the international presentation of a unique educational activity for young audiences.
The quality of the workshop is counting on the experience of its partners. TRAKT (Slovakia) is an institution working with art of new media and interactivity since 2009, while Primanima Film Festival is the initiator of the first incubator house in Hungary that focuses on animation - a home to the popular children’s programme. By bringing the two partners together, the project facilitates a novel cross-border cooperation to be released in an international context, later on traveling through other local programs in Hungary and Slovakia. Given the dimension of the project, VFH will introduce the results to its list of partners, presenting the possibility of accommodating the workshop in Czechia and Poland as well.
The process of the workshop will be facilitated by professionals from the partner countries together with local facilitators. Given the diverse production team, the workshop has the capacity of live translation of the course in Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, English and Portuguese - adapting to the team of participants. This way, the educational programme becomes accessible by youth from local migrant communities.
V4 ACADEMY - The Safe Space Lab entails a 2-days intensive workshop, taking place at OKNA - Cultural Centre for Central & Eastern European Art, established by PLUSEAST in 2018 in the city of Porto. The center has dedicated workshop rooms and a strong network of contacts including families from Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak communities living in Portugal.
In terms of results, the participants will get the opportunity of presenting their final projects in front of the big audience during the closing ceremony of BEAST - Festival for Central & Eastern European Film, inviting the local audience, its industry and the young audience to witness the achievements made during the workshop.
https://beastfilm.pt/animation-workshop-4-kids-2/
