Art4DevelopmentNet Workshops

- CreativeChange Workshops

CreativeChange Workshops are to familarize individuals about the Millennium Development Goals. The workshops not only disseminate information on MDGs but also create a cross cultural dialogue by traveling to numerous sites internationally. The workshop presents the CreativeChange Screening (a compilation of the Youth Arts Project artworks in video format) together with the Sound Project which help initiate discussion and dialogue. Following the discussion session workshop participants are invited to depict their own interpretations of the MDGs.

In support with the World Bank Youth-2-Youth Community Art4Development.Net presented CreativeChange Screening at the Warehouse Gallery in February 2006 (Washington DC, USA). Other workshops/edutaining events have taken place in Macedonia, Nigeria,Cameroon, and Dubai.

CreativeChange Project: The Sound, Visual Arts, Movement and Dance Workshop

Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 3:30-6:30 pm

Theater/Dance Stage, Artomatic, Capitol Plaza I, 1200 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Metro: Red Line, New York Ave., M St exit (Workshop Flyer)

CreativeChange Project is an international learning journey on development with arts. Launched in 2004 in collaboration with the United Nations Millennium Campaign and TakingITGlobal, CreativeChange aims to help generate awareness on the Millennium Development Goals and the use of creative techniques in social change and development. The project has traveled from New York, to Cameroon, Dubai to Nigeria, Canada, and more.

The related Sound Project which features short compositions of young sound engineers, aims to help participants exercise their audio perception skills, visualize situations and circumstances, become curious, think, feel, depict, voice, ...The Sound workshop of CreativeChange project is led by Nil S. Navaie, Founding Director of Arts for Global Development. Other workshop activities include self-exploration, individual and community expression, healing and more.

Guest workshop leaders:

Nejla Yatkin, Associate Professor of Dance, University of Maryland and Artistic Director of NY2Dance

Award-winning and internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer, Nejla Y. Yatkin is a dancing soul. A native of Berlin, Germany with Turkish roots, she graduated with her masters in Dance and Choreography from "Die Etage" in Berlin, Germany. Nejla is currently based between New York and Washington, D.C. pursuing her solo career: dancing, choreographing and giving workshops at international and national festivals. Since the fall of 2001, she has also been a Professor of Dance at the University of Maryland - College Park. For more information visit www.ny2dance.com

Helina Metaferia, Community, Healing, and Visual Artist

Born in Washington, D.C. to Ethiopian parents,Helina Mataferia has always demonstrated an interest in the arts. She attended Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, later transferring to Morgan State University and obtaining her BA in Fine Arts in 2005. She has shown her art in galleries, museums and festivals, including the Eubie Blake Cultural Center, the World Space Center, and the James E. Lewis Museum. Mataferia has been an art instructor for community arts programs with the Creative Alliance and the YMCA. She also works as a freelance graphic design artist. For more information visit www.metaartist.com

Binahkaye Joy, Indigenous Open Space Performing Artist

Binahkaye Joy is an artist who embraces the eternal movement of dance to spread love and creative energy to the world. Raised in Washington, DC, Binahkaye began studying dance in 1987. She started conducting original research and choreography in the US and abroad while pursuing a degree in African Diaspora Studies and Dance at the College of William & Mary. Since then, she has worked with many dance innovators and taught dance around the world, including Ghana, India, Bali, Brooklyn, Post-Katrina New Orleans, and Washington, DC. She is currently nurturing students of all ages in the exploration of creative movement and completing several books about her dance work, including a children's book being published this year. Binahkaye is also developing a series of dance curriculum guides for school systems, health and wellness institutes, and organizations that work with people who have experienced trauma. For more information about her work visit www.osadance.blogspot.com

- Peace Tiles Workshops

Art4Development.Net is a partner of the Peace Tiles (PT) project supporting its communication efforts and organizing workshops in the Washington, DC metro area.

* The Art4Development.Net PT workshop with Euronet International members aimed at creating tiles which were collected to produce murals for the World AIDs Day commemoration. The objective of the project and workshops is to create awareness on HIV/AIDS and the vulnerability of children and youth to this disease. Art4Development.Net collaborated with Euronet International at the District of Columbia Arts Center in September of 2005 to focus on this vital issue.

* The Art4Development.Net PT workshops with International Global Health Conference participants aimed at introducing visual arts forms that are utilized in health advocacy and education. The workshops took place in May 2006 and 2008 in Washington DC.

If you are interested in organizing workshops with Art4Development.Net please get in touch with us.

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