- Arts
YAF Mission
Young Artists Forum was established to contribute to community development in The West Bank through employing the large potentialities of arts for improving the cultural and intellectual situation of children and youth in Palestine and develop their individual and community personality.
YAF Goals:
A- General Objectives are :
1- To contribute to enhance community awareness of democracy, human rights, and modern civil society among children and youth in West Bank.
2- To contribute to enhance the role of arts and modern artistic culture in the Palestinian society.
B- Temporary Objectives (emerging from the General Objectives):
1.1 To enhance community awareness about human rights, democracy, tolerance and the respect of low principles among 2000 youth and children in West Bank.
1.2 To enhance the abilities of 400 children in the areas of tension in West Bank in bio-interaction with the surrounding.
2.1 To contribute to raise the level of teaching fine arts among 1000 teachers and students in primary schools in West Bank .
2.2 To empower 200 youth (males and females) of trainers and professional artists in the work market through vocational training in applied arts (Graphic design, illustration, internal decoration, and Arabic handwriting)
2.3 To empower 2000 talented children and youth in figurative arts in West Bank.
YAF implements cultural and educative projects throughout the whole West Bank. It uses fine arts and drama as a method to raise social awareness among its target group, convey educational messages, empower youth and enhance the psychosocial well being of children specially who live near to the Apartheid Wall through the next three following programs as there are indicated in the strategic plan 2012-2014:
• The Community Educational Program (raise awareness) for Youth and Children through Arts.
• The Psycho-social Intervention Program for Children through Arts.
• The Arts Training Program for Teachers and Students of Basic Schools.
• The Arts Training Program/Vocational Rehabilitation on Applied Arts (Graphic Design, Illustration, Internal Decoration, Arabic Handwriting).
• The Arts Training Program-Evening Arts Institute / Ramallah and Tulkarem.
YAF will be careful to attend Anna Lindh workshops and meetings, and productively participate in the discussion. YAF will also participate in any networking among ANF members.
YAF would like to join ALF Network since our organization mainly works in the culture field and considers the cultural exchange between Palestinian youth in Particular and youth from other regions an important component for building bridges between youth on one hand and between the cultural organizations from the other hand, and also to promote future cooperation among them