Italy

Art Aia- Creatives/ In/ Residence is a cultural center, a creative residency, located inside a farm in the Friulian countryside of Northern Italy, near the town of Sesto al Reghena in the province of Pordenone. Its aims are the cultural research and the artistic experimentation in the area, the circulation of information, the promotion of art and culture at a local and international level. Art Aia pursues exclusively cultural and artistic activities, guided by the idea that art can help to overcome the limitations and barriers place to communication still today, which in a way reduce imagination and creativity. For this reason, Art Aia is strongly committed to the promotion of exchange and collaboration between individual artists and groups of various nationalities and backgrounds. The Centre organizes and hosts different types of activities : the artists may reside at Art Aia during periods of study and work, develop new projects, create performances or audiovisual work, attend courses, seminars and workshops on different techniques, present their work within Festivals and exhibitions and carry out activities aimed to the development of their artistic skills and creative process . Art Aia is also an ecology center immersed in the nature of the Friulan territory where it is possible to get familiar with sustainable agriculture and well-being brought eco-therapy. Over the past five years, one of the main activity of Art Aia has been the higher education, with courses taught by teachers and international artists. Several groups have also been hosted in the structure to carry out creative residencies, aimed at the preparation of new art projects. The Spirit of Art Aia is to develop creativity, understood as a cultural resource and potential for growth, within a natural setting where it is possible to establish a new relationship between Humanity, Art, and Nature.

Artestudio is a Cultural Association that works professionally in this area of social and culture for more than thirty years cooperating with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministries of Culture, Foreign Affairs, Interior and Justice, the European Union, Regione Lazio, Roma Capitale, the UNHCR, the University of La Sapienza in Rome and the University of Romatre.
Has already carried out a project of social theater with young Syrian refugees in Lebanon in cooperation with UNHCR and INTERSOS that has seen tremendous interest.
Has also achieved for the first time a project of social theater at the C.A.R.A (Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Gradisca d'Isonzo making this inedited program a brand new stable and continuous reality. Now prepares a draft for the C.A.R.A in Castelnuovo di Porto in the province of Rome.
Artestudio has investigated the issue of immigration with the PIED DOG project that has involved many young people in Italy and the Middle East. It carried out projects in Lebanon and Palestine, working with refugees and in several prisons with theater projects aimed at Italian and foreign inmates, projects for the mentally disabled and victims of violence always using THEATRE AS A TOOL FOR PSYCHOSOCIAL RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION.

ArteStudio’s activities aim to promote intercultural dialogue and cultural collaboration among citizens making use of the extraordinary capability of theater in setting up relationships and cooperation’s actions. We strongly believe that Theater, intended as theatrical action, being a creative instrument of understanding can represent a unique mean for reflecting and acting upon the future of Italy and Europe in the perspective of integration and intercultural dialogue. Theatre represents a meeting place where the preparation of the performance becomes a process of regeneration of people fostering a new system of understanding among citizens, promoting a modern sense of collective identity in the context of diversity and wealth of cultures.

As stated in the attached Statute of the Association “Arti&Mestieri”, its purposes are to implement social focused activities.
More specifically, the Arti&Mestieri Association operates in the following sectors: education, training, charity, promotion of artistic and historic matters, preservation of the environment, promotion of cultural and artistic heritage.
The above mentioned activities are performed in order to assist disadvantaged (for physical, psychological, economic and social reasons) target groups.
Furthermore, the Association implements cultural meetings, festivals and events.

Overall aims
Main aims of the association are:
• social and cultural integration
• defence and promotion of individual cultural and religious identities (as resources and cultural richness, not as a problem)
• promotion of intercultural dialogue and of learning through non formal education
• prevention and fight against racism and prejudices
• promotion of active citizenship and of community development
• communication among youngsters
• young people empowerment
• the development of autonomy skills and of individual potential
• improvement of people’s quality of life
Since the beginning, ASAI focused on teenagers and young people as target groups, through their involvement in learning activities, but it also involves children and adults, families and old people (with the aim of creating inter-generational dialogue and understanding)
The educational support has become during the years one of the main and more requested activities in the ASAI centre: the Italian language classes and the afterschool activities allow young people to reach a faster and successful integration in the Italian school system. Moreover, adults and youngsters can contact the ASAI “employment centre” for a guidance in the choice of training courses or schools and a guidance in their job research. Computer courses are held in ASAI and an Internet point with free access is available for youngsters and adults. Sport activities are organized by ASAI: football, volley and basket teams have been set up with parents involvement as trainers or volunteers to take kids to matches and help the team. The teams often participate to provincial and regional championships.
Meetings for parents are promoted, supported by a psychologist, with the aim of sharing problems and thoughts, dialoguing and setting up a sort of self-aid group among them.
In some particular cases, aimed intervention for youngsters with problems are developed with the contribution of the public Social Services.
Teenagers and young people are often involved in excursions, week-end trips, holiday camps, film-festivals, visits to museums, International youth exchanges, etc.
Youngsters over 18, who attended ASAI activities for a long time, and young University students follow training courses in ASAI to become youth leaders and to support younger fellows. They become teachers of dance, theatre, percussions and Italian language and every week meet among themselves to discuss educational themes. The ASAI centre is also used by different ethnical communities to organise meetings, parties, dinners and dances.
The executive staff of the Association consists of twelve members, professional youth workers, employed full time. The Association also involves 300 volunteers, which are teachers, psychologists, trainers, young University students, youngsters from the Italian Voluntary Service, but also citizens (parents, families, young people)

l'association est à but non lucratif
l'association exerce son activité exclusivement sur la solidarité sociale .et entend travailler dans les secteurs de: l' humanitaire, l'assistance sociale et socio sanitaire, la bienfaisance,l'education et la formation
 
l'association ASES à pour but de:
- developper une assistance reciproque ,la solidarite et la cooperation inteernationale
- travailler pour le respect de la dignité humaine
- participer activement à la protection et à l'education des enfants
- participer activement à la formation des jeunes
- participer activement dans la politique sanitaire
- participer activement à la protection des personnes vulnerables
- organiser des activités non lucratives tout en maintenant son autonomie
- travailler pour la suvegarde de l'environnement et la protection de la nature.
 

We have collaborated with several European partners with whom we have developed Creative Europe projects or Erasmus plus projects. Our mission is to continue to work in collaboration with international partners to share culture and experiences maintaining cultural diversity.