From 2009 up to the present day we conduct the Interactive Workshops "Fingerprints" with the participation of mainstream students and youth with disabilitiy. In Attica the workshops take place at the Vorres Museum, Mondays through Fridays, 9:15 -12:30.
- The program is held during the academic year from September until June
- Pan Hellenic participation from elementary and secondary schools with disabled youth from special schools and social institutions
- Participants arrive in school buses, accompanied by their teachers and social workers
- A free tour of the Museum is provided
- For participants outside the Attica district, the joint artistic activities occur in their area of residence
- SKEP’s team coordinates the activities (occurring simultaneously) by ensuring that participants will mingle smoothly and meet each other through this creative process
- Members of SKEP engage in open discussions in order to provide more information to the participating students
Sample description of Workshops
- Interactive Artistic Workshops: Collage techniques, painting workshops, painting on t-shirts, tape art, visual constructions etc
- Athletic Program: Playing Bocce all together
- “STEPS by SKEP”: Be the catalyst for social change: Open discussions by SKEPs motivational speakers (youth with disability)
- “See Differently!”: Experiential / Interactive Disability Awareness Workshops: the students find out the daily obstacles young people with disability face, as well as the solutions
- "Labyrinth of Senses" : To cross the Labyrinth participants will use their senses, namely touch, hearing, smell and sight. This workshop held by AMKE KINITRO helps you perceive a world where diversity, equality, acceptance and respect prevail.
The workshops offer students from special schools along with those from mainstream schools an alternative unique experience. Our main objective remains the interactive cooperation between students and youth with disability aiming at building relations rather than creating the perfect pieces of art. During our experiential workshops they interact without «communication codes» or rigid rules but most importantly without bias and discrimination.
Being socially excluded can be prevented, if from a very young age, children live together and share their uniqueness.
Approval for the "Finger Prints" program from the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs