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The Pas Cultural workshops
Three months of art workshops in three social centres in Cluj-Napoca, for people with intellectual disabilities.
Pas Cultural is an art programme that ran for three months in three social centres in Cluj-Napoca, created so that people with intellectual disabilities could explore and assert their own artistic inclinations. The project was carried out with the support of Start ONG by Kaufland.
What we did in the project
- workshops in the social centres: series of workshops on well-being and expression through art, in a safe setting where participants create and gain confidence in their own abilities;
- an online gallery: the works made were documented, selected and published in a digital gallery dedicated to artists from vulnerable backgrounds.
In the workshops we worked with whatever was to hand: brushes and watercolours, leaves used as stamps, the participants’ own hands and magazines cut up for collage.
What remains
The social workers told us that the atmosphere in the centres had changed visibly, and the participants are waiting for us to come back and create together.
Almost 50 people took part, in three partner social centres.
The project is funded through the Start ONG programme, launched by Kaufland Romania and implemented by the Act for Tomorrow Association.
