27 Saad zaghlol st, ramlah station, Alexandria, EGYPT
Alexandria
Egypt
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
Offering services, opportunities and support for those who work in the field of culture, art and education in the Arab World using Origami.
1) Promoting and supporting Origami, as an art, in the Arab World through networking with Origami artists locally, regionally and globally.
2) Using Origami as a communicative language between the different cultures.
3) Emphasizing the role of Origami in the educational, artistic and cultural process, in a trial to integrate it with some other kinds of art.
4) Helping in supporting arts and culture, emphasizing their roles in the educational process, and encouraging innovation, stimulating creativity when it comes to youth and children.
5) Highlighting the role that art plays towards society by using Origami, which is a kind of art. Also, developing the educational process in Egypt by using Origami to be a model that can be applied in the Arab countries. In addition to using Origami as a means of self-expression and thought in the Arab World.
Projects:
1) Developing the educational process
2) Reviving child’s literature
3) Supporting developmental projects
Activities:
1) Workshops (for children, adults, teachers, trainers, mothers, those with special needs and the elderly)
2) Organizing an annual festival for Origami
3) Organizing exhibitions for the Origami Art
4) Organizing competitions for creating new Origami patterns
5) Publishing books with the Arabic language for the Origami Art
6) Program for supporting and reviving child’s literature
7) Residency program for international artists
8) Organizing lectures with topics that are related to the uses of Origami in different domains (psychiatry, education, architects… etc.)