3.1.3 Methodological Material_Chapter 5 "Educational Artmaking In Partners Countries: Good Practices In Community Settings"

16. Examples of selected activities

Riborquestra, founded in 2009, aims to improve the lives of people in the neighborhood by providing resources for artistic learning. The project is based on an innovative and inclusive methodological model which democratises artistic practice and facilitates citizen participation, enabling the generation of new relationships between people. Riborquestra fosters young people's personal growth and facilitates community development by providing them with the opportunity to learn an instrument and be part of the orchestra. The goal is to promote solidarity, inclusion, coexistence and interculturality within the neighborhood, through culture and group musical practice and performance. The learning and development processes and the relationship between the participants, favors positive behavioral change, generated as a result of personal and contextual awareness, enhancing the potential for individual and community transformation.

The ‘Barrios: inclusión social a través del arte’/Neighborhoods: social inclusion through art project is about the sustainable development of society and the search for identity within the sectors that make up the diversity of a specific urban environment. It focuses on a setting where children can feel integrated, using art as a catalyst of communication and development of the individual. The first general objective is to promote the cohesion and social inclusion of groups of children and young people through their recognition as a community and through interrelation with other peer groups. The project facilitates coexistence by recognizing the neighborhood and the various sectors that make up the community, taking the experience of art, creativity, and symbolic expression as a reference. The program consists of a series of activities and workshops with different objectives, such as using the social character of art, especially in relation to its possibilities for building social cohesion and shaping identity, promoting the individual development of young people in relation to elements such as creativity, and the acquisition of knowledge and skills through group work. Art is used as a vehicle for the practice of habits that help improve society through solidarity action. It is also intended to bring the art center closer to society and disassociate it from the classic vision of an elite space.