DEVA
Sonokids was a partner in the Grundtvig 2 Life Long Learning Partnership 2006-2008 Project funded by the European Commission called
DISCOVERY and EXPERIENCE VIA ART (DEVA).
The project website is www.sonokids.net/deva.html
For two years the partnership worked together on a cultural subject and developed art and theatre courses in Bremen (Germany) and Florence (Italy).
The participants in the project were people who are blind or have low vision or have a mental disability - and they are artists and actors. The project gave them the opportunity to get to know each other and to work together with the focus not on their disabilities but on their artistic resources.
The theatre group from Florence, “Il faro”, performed a play for a film and the group of Bremen worked in an art-workshop. Both groups in their own way expressed stories from their city. IAIE and Sonokids end-produced the on-site creations, created the project website and produced digital interactive city maps about the stories using the material produced by the artists.
Sonokids' Peter op 't Hof (left) and John Norgaard during a DEVA meeting.
Coordinating organisation :
Initiative zur sozialen Rehabilitation e.V., Germany
Participating organisations, partners :
International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE), The Netherlands
Sonokids Foundation, The Netherlands
Unione Italiana dei CIECHI, Italy
This project is realised with the support of the European Community within the framework of Grundtvig, the action within the Socrates Program.