Name of the project: Youth Art Movement – YAM
Duration of the project: 12 months; 01.05.2015. – 30.04.2016.
Goals of the project:
Starting artistic activism among young people by creation of high quality and recognizable art programs that form the contemporary cultural platform in Mostar as well as recognizable cultural values where young people self-organization, develop, advance and affirm.
Motivate and interest young people to participate in informal educational cultural programs which will establish cooperation between local actors and rural and urban cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region and abroad, work on women’s empowerment and women’s creative and artistic potential of young people.
Empower segments of cultural activities, cultural standards and self-organization of young people that enhances the cultural policy of the city where young people are working on the cultural decontamination of culture.
Summary of the project:
Youth Art Movement is a project that activates young people to create a cultural platform in Mostar, through alternative art facilities which create a positive atmosphere in the divided city that reflects in the wider community. Youth Art Movement dealing with young people in the form of empowerment of their artistic and organizational skills, ideas and talents, and opens the possibility for direct artistic activity in the public life of the city through which come to the fore positive examples and emotional power of youth.
Youth Art Movement its activities continuously educates, empowerment and guides young people through cultural activities and motivate them to actively artistic activity in the public areas of the city, cultural institutions, schools and galleries and motivate them through art to active social engagement. The project includes street art, theater, exhibitions, visualization, multimedia performance, modern dance performances and workshops and providing a space program and organizational freedom and creativity of young people. Some of the activities of the project (Street Arts Festival and Creative Winter) realized were in previous years, and detonated a large number of young people from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region and abroad on a common artistic engagement that has contributed to the cultural scene of the city that has become famous popular among young people in the local community and beyond. The festival has hosted artists from Italy, Spain, Sweden, Polish and German. Youth Art Movement develops approaches to cultural development and cultural activism of young people through the annual activities that motivate young people not only in consuming but also actively create cultural activities. The project will combine the work of professionals with the work of volunteers and amateurs to continuous joint action to affirm the artists strengthen the cultural creativity of the city and create a distinct cultural platform that has a stable framework for cultural activities of young people.