"Fingerprints" - Interactive Disability Awareness Workshops (educational-artistic-athletic)
During the school year 2018 - 2018, part of the Interactive Disability Awareness Workshops "Fingerprints", in which mainstream students and youth with disability participate together, were implemented with a grant from the Bodossaki Foundation.
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.
For the school year 2018 - 2019 the workshops were held on the following dates:
- Tuesday, December 11th
- Wednesday, January 16th
- Thursday, January 17th
- Tuesday, February 12th
- Wednesday, February 13th
- The program was held during the academic year, at the Vorres Museum, from 9.15 until 12.30.
- Elementary and secondary mainstream students interacted with disabled youth from special schools and social institutions
- Participants arrived in school buses, accompanied by their teachers and social workers
- A free tour of the Museum was provided
- SKEP’s team coordinated the activities (occurring simultaneously) by ensuring that participants will mingle smoothly and meet each other through this creative process
- Members of SKEP engaged 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.