HUMANIDAD
Humanidad is a photographic project involving young people and workshop facilitators from different regions of Quebec and from some Latin American countries. This project consists in providing workshops on learning the role of light in photography and allows cultural exchanges that contribute to the promotion of culture through that artistic medium.
The mobile workshops based on the role of light in photography are used again within the framework of Humanidad. The suggested subject «My life environment» leads the young to portray their district. In each one of the areas where the project is carried out, the participants are asked to write a text presenting their pictures. All the collected pictures and texts make up a documentary shown in exhibitions. The latter reveal the cultural differences and similarities between the young people of Quebec and Latin America.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
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Foster communication, expression and creativity among young people through visual art.
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Make the young aware of the role of light in photography.
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Awaken them to the power of the visual image in society.
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Train workshop facilitators for the different stages of the workshop.
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Provide extracurricular and school activities in disadvantaged areas.
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Show the importance of recycling.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
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Learn the basic principles of photography.
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Make cameras (cameras obscura) using recycled objects.
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Develop pictures taken on black and white paper.
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Conceive a documentary on one’s living environment.
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Participate in the mounting of an exhibition in one’s community.
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Make photographic art an integral part of school subjects.
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Take part in a cultural exchange.
WHO IS IT FOR?
This project is carried out in collaboration with the local cultural and community associations, cooperatives and schools of different regions of Quebec and Latin American countries. The participants aimed at by the Humanidad project are young people over 8 years old. Facilitators are invited to participate in the workshops so as to get the knowledge required to take over activities with the young.
PROPOSED ACTIVITIES
The workshops
Mobile workshops based on the discovery of light in photography and experimentation with it are presented within this activity. For a more detailed description of mobile workshops, see Mobile workshop based on the role of light in photography.
The exhibition
The participants write texts describing their pictures, connected with the subject and their own experience. They also take part in the mounting of the exhibition shown in their community. Moreover traveling exhibitions take place on various cultural premises of Quebec and Latin American countries to keep up the cultural exchange.
Training workshop facilitators
The equipment needed to carry on with the workshops is given to the person in charge of the areas where DIASOL runs the Humanidad project. Besides, training workshops on the camera obscura technique are also proposed to facilitators. This initiation allows them to take over the workshops autonomously.
