The Forgotten Keys community art project is the outcome of the latest GAP LAB programme, a collaboration between the city of Porvoo, the municipality of Sipoo and Globe Art Point. Globe Art Point anonymously recruited an interdisciplinary team of five artists to create an art project in Porvoo and Sipoo where the process itself was open to the public.
The selected artists – Beniamino Borghi, Emma Hovi, Riband Kurd, Terese Kühl and Jordy Valderrama – held workshops in several locations in Porvoo and Sipoo between 29.5.-13.6.2022.
General Objective of the Workshops
The Kulkijat Workshops are designed as participatory art workshops in which children between 10-12 years of immigrant origin are accompanied by an adult relative who lives with the child in the same house. Together they learn a form of art as a posible hobby, thus leaving electronic devices and creating a more humanistic social bond, sharing quality time with a family member through meaningful learning.
Specific objectives
To offer an artistic discipline as an alternative and integrating activity.
Tu put down electronic gadgets.
To encourage, through cultural activities, humanistic exchange.
To establish close and lasting bonds between children aged 10-12 with an adult member of the family through an artistic discipline.
To motivate children to recognize cultural values, new skills and group experiences.
To avoid addictions and conduct disorders that lead to poor school and/or academic performance.
Promote a healthy discipline and a participatory practice through arts, opening the possibility of continuing this practice in the near future.
To meet other immigrant families.