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Children in the Summer Garden
Children-s homes of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast are welcome to participate in the project. Children of two age categories - younger schoolchildren and teenagers -are given an opportunity to get acquainted with the exhibitions of the SRM, and to take part in integration workshops, led by modern artists and musicians in the Summer Garden. This workshops are meant to create a special space where orphans, "difficult" teenagers, relatively healthy children, along with professional artists, musicians, and actors will create objects of art. They will be supported by psychologists and art-physicians. As a result of the work carried out in the workshops - artistic, musical, and theatrical - fancy dresses, masks, presents to the Summer Garden will be created, and finally a play for a street performance will be written. The workshops participants will perform it, so that the Garden visitors can watch it. The festival will be concluded with fireworks open to general public.
This will allow children to take active part in jubilee celebration devoted to the Summer Garden, to present themselves and their favourite city with a real feast made with their own hands. Besides, it is planned to publish a colour booklet at the end of the programme, with special thanks to sponsors and participants of the workshops, as well as an information page for citizens with the description of art-therapeutic programmes of the SRM.
All in all, 320 children from children-s homes of the city and oblast will participate in the project.
Aims of the project:
- to increase the number of the Museum visitors through including various deprived groups of population (orphans) into the communicative Museum space
- to facilitate their social adaptation and creative rehabilitation by the means of arts (art-therapy)
- to include the Summer Garden into the socio-cultural activities of the Museum
- to present the State Russian Museum actual socio-cultural programmes and projects to the open public
Objectives of the project:
- to involve children's homes of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast into cooperation with the SRM
- to hold a series of general excursions for orphans from children's and orphan's homes
- to organise and hold integration workshops for orphans, disabled children and relatively healthy children in the Summer Garden, where modern artists, musicians, and actors will take part
- to organise and hold theatre performances and blitz-competitions of drawings with citizens who come to the Summer Garden in summer as participants
- to publish a colour booklet with the description of the SRM socio-cultural programmes
- to ensure that the project will continue - to hold a contest of children oeuvre among the project participants and other educational institutions of the city
The project is to be carried out stage by stage.
The project includes the following activities:
- excursions around the rooms of the SRM and in the Summer garden
- free workshops and festivals with entertainment and fireworks in the Summer Garden
- blitz-competitions and interactive games for visitors and citizens, a competition of children's drawings
Time schedule:
Stage 1:
- April 26, 2004 - May 31, 2005 - excursions around the SRM for orphans and inmates of children-s homes of the city
- June 2-3, 2004 - "Fancy-dress Festival in the Summer Garden". Art-therapy workshops for the project participants, guests, and citizens
- July 11, 17, 18, 24; August 7, 8, 2004 - "St. Petersburg on a palm. Small artists of the large city". Theatre performances and games, blitz-competitions of children drawings for citizens and visitors of the Summer Garden
Stage 2:
- September 1-27, 2004 - excursions around the SRM for orphans and inmates of children-s homes of the city (for those who did not take part in the first set)
- September 2-3, 2004 - regular assembly with music and fireworks (art music-therapy workshops for the project participants)
Stage 3:
- December 2004 - further development of the project. A contest of children-s oeuvre among the project participants, as well as among the city schools which are members of Hello, Museum! Programme.
Children in the Summer Garden socio-cultural project is organised by the State Russian Museum together with the North-western branch of the RF Sberbank and other funds of the city (In search for harmony Fund for support of socio-cultural programmes, the Russian Union of theatre figures, the RF Union of Artists). Those participating are orphans, inmates of children-s homes of St. Petersburg, relatively healthy children, along with modern artists, musicians, actors, directors, psychologists, and pedagogues.
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