We need your vote to help achieve independent living in the community for people with functional diversity.
Art Explora has just selected as a finalist a project by Concomintentes, together with the non-profit association Ambar, to explore through participatory art how the full inclusion of people with functional diversity could be achieved.
The Art Explora International Foundation, based in France, which seeks to bring art and local communities closer together, has just selected a participatory art project by Ambar and Concomitentes as one of the ten finalists for its prestigious Art Explora - Academy of Fine Arts Award.
In the ART EXPLORA WEBSITE you can vote to support a prize of 10,000 euros to help develop a participatory art project. in Ambar, which works in the Barbanza region (Galicia).
Ambar is a non-profit organisation, declared of Public Utility, which has been working since 1982 in the region promoting that people with diversity can live independently in the community, with the necessary support. Among the actions it carries out are day care services, employment with support or training in actions linked to art, such as the Mar Diverso Festival, to the various stage plays with equality themes produced by the women's group “Elas”. In its 42 years of existence, the organisation has been accredited with quality standards that support its value proposition of connecting people with diversity with the resources of the community, ensuring that the person decides how to live in the community.
On this occasion, the entity takes another step forward in its commitment to articulate independent living in the community of people with functional diversity by aligning itself with Concomitentes, a non-profit organisation that develops artistic projects based on citizens' demands from all over Spain. This entity is part of the European network New Patrons, which has created more than 500 works of art since 1990 in response to citizens' wishes.
The two organisations applied for the Art Explora Award and were selected as finalists with the project «Objective: Independent Lives». Through this project, both want to to initiate a participative artistic project in the region of Barbanza (Galicia). This will seek a greater complicity with the neighbours to generate a social co-responsibility with the mission of achieving an independent and community life for people with functional diversity.
The project, which would last for a year and a half, would, on the one hand, launch a participatory project with public sessions to explore the collective desire of what independent living means, and then an internationally renowned artist would develop a work of art that responds to this desire emanating from the artistic process.
Through the popular vote, which has been open since 29 October at the Art Explora website, This project can be supported. The winning organisations will receive 10,000 euros to help develop a pioneering project in the arts that combines participation and full inclusion.
