Exhibition of artwork by participants in the partnership project from the Center for Rehabilitation of Children and Young People, the Day Care Center for Children with Cerebral Palsy, Primary School Rajko Zinzifov and Primary School Avram Pisevski in cooperation with the Macedonian Montessori Association opened Thursday at Skopjebased Faculty of Philosophy.
Aneta Stefanovska, Director of the Center for Rehabilitation of Children and Young People said that project is financed and supported by OSCE Mission to Macedonia, Ministry of Education and Science, the Swiss Embassy within Building Bridges Fund.
Our project is focused on art as tool to overcome the stereotypes, prejudices and merging of diversity students with different ethnic, religious backgrounds, with different intellectual abilities and motor ability. The project was implemented three months. The program included seven creative art workshops moderated by Macedonian Montessori Association, Stefanovska said.
The workshops were focused on familiarizing the students with the work of some of the greatest artists, she said adding that the second part of the workshops referred to expressing own creativity. After introducing each artist, the children create an artwork inspired by the artist.
Also brochure in three languages Macedonian, Albanian and Romani presenting the process of using art to build bridges was presented.