From April 1st to April 18th, the mentors of the Cultural Platform held 66 events boosting the development of creative skills for the youth from the Odesa region. As part of this Camp, musician, artist, sound producer, and improv actor Bogdan Kuper joined the team of mentors for the first time.
During these eighteen days, the Camp events were visited by more than 1,500 participants from Yuzhne, Chornomorsk, Lypetske, and Podilsk.
The youth managed to acquire new skills in the creative industries, which could become their first step to mastering professions in the field of cultural economy in the future.
Spilno Camp. Communities program is built on youth-friendly formats and modern approaches (interactive workshops, content creation, open performances), through which young people explore socially important topics with ease. All activities of the Camp are aimed at the development of specific future-proof skills, such as creativity and creative thinking, positive communication, emotional intelligence, the ability to work in a team, conflict resolution, and self-reflection.
During their stay in Odesa oblast, the Cultural Platform Zakarpattya NGO team visited the Podilsk Local History Museum because every trip to a new community opens up the possibility of exploring local cultures and broadening one’s worldview.
Thanks to this project, the Cultural Platform team can provide youth with up-to-date and progressive knowledge, help express their emotions and experience of war through creative and creative practices, and unite local and internally displaced youth in a safe space of collaborative creation. Such activities contribute to the socialization of young people and result in a more harmonious social adaptation through joint learning.
Splino Camp. Communities project is implemented by the Cultural Platform Zakarpattya NGO with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine.
Photo Artem Bugaj
Anastasiya Mishustina
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