HUMAN ACADEMY (HA!) is our capacity building programme open to the creative and cultural stakeholders of private and public institutions, social workers, teachers, students decision-making bodies and others around the region. HA! aims to fill up current and future needs in the broad Creative and Cultural Sectors by providing toolkits and knowledge in different formats of workshops, assemblies, or seminars – formal and informal – through four campuses:

  • People’s Campus wants to be in-between the community and its cultural services, providing tools to work on participation, volunteering, hospitality, inclusion, accessibility, activism, leadership, democracy, co-decision and co-creation, i.a. This campus is open to every member of the civil society;
  • Matter & Facts Campus wants to raise experts on the technical aspects of cultural production calling for anyone that wants to improve their working skills, including lighting/sound design, exhibition set-up, set-design, digital tools, i.a.;
  • Creative Campus supports the Creative and Cultural Sectors by developing skills in communication, audience involvement, cultural management and administration, partnerships, funds, programme design, cultural exchanges, european dimension, i.a.;
  • More-than-Human Campus focuses on the interspecies relationships and chores we must nurture in our daily and professional life. This campus includes eco-conscious planning and programming, eco-creation and production, Zero Waste, regenerative design, i.a. We are calling decision-making bodies, activists, social and environmental NGOs, creatives, the university, schools, and others.alling decision-making bodies, activists, social and environmental NGOs, creatives, the university, schools, and others.


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After being inaugurated, in November 2022, with 3 training courses about "Artistic Practices and Participation", "Funding for Cultural and Creative Projects" and "Sustainability in the Cultural Sector", HA! is returning, in January 2023, for a second edition, with two People's Campus sessions.


If these streets were ours...

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27, 28, 30 and 31 of January and 3 of February
with Lívia Diniz, Marco Torre and Habitat Açores

This course will be a transdisciplinary and creative experience that stimulates the curiosity of children and young people of São Miguel. The intention is to let the imaginary of Carnival, Natália Correia's poetry and the rural, urban and natural beauties in. We will create desirable futures for the islands. With the youth, we will develop learning laboratories in which the children will compose melodies and narratives to celebrate our culture and nature. Songs, dances, knowledge, new ways of looking at things, dreams and fantasies will arise and be spread.

Time

Youth sessions – 27 Jan (16h-19h) and 28 Jan (14h30-17h30), on Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional de Ponta Delgada
Youth and children sessions – 30 and 31 Jan and 3 Feb (16h-18h30), Centro Natália Correia
Participation in all sessions is mandatory.

Registrations

Registrations will be open until January 25th for 9 youngster (from the ages of 16 to 25 years old) who are interested and experienced (not necessarily professional experience) in one of the following categories:

  • curiosity for the territory and the community, for research, record and reinvention of the heritage (be it photography, writing, drawing, video or sound);
  • passion for creating characters and building/sewing figurines, to materialise the creatures and fantasies imagined by the children;
  • having a musical instruments as an extension of their body, to help compose and animate the Carnival that is being created;
  • loves tik-tok and/or dancing, to get the party moving;
  • is a pit of imagination, to create new Carnival narratives;
  • photography and/or video are a passion, to register the working sessions and the grand finale!

Registration is free and can be send, as well as any inquiry, until the 25th of January to rita@azores2027.eu, or through the phone number +351 916828041. The email, or message, should contain the following information: name, age, and which 'talent' you want to share. Maximum capacity of 12 children and 9 youngsters.

Biographies

Lívia Diniz
Lívia creates playful places where humans and non-humans co-create multilineal narratives, interactive creatures and objects to imagine desirable futures. She weaves individual ideas and activates collaborative actions through transdisciplinary practices focused on children. She attended the School of Cinema and Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, where she co-directed 13 Carnival parades, along with her extended experiences, that took place in different locations and formats, throughout 12 years. In the last 20 years, she has engaged in artistic productions and research in 17 countries, through festivals, networks, indigenous villages, slums, schools, universities, theatres, artistic projects, activism, museums, residencies, creation spaces, culture and research centres, etc.

Habitat Açores
Habitat was born from a collective worrying about the evolution of the quality of life in the Azores. It is a citizen group that is attentive to social, cultural, environmental and economic issues that impact life in the Azores, and has a will to care for the common good of the Region.

How to collaborate with other disciplines

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27 to 30 January
with Artur Carvalho

This workshop proposes moments to talk, share, play and get to know the unknown. Through co-creation exercises, group dynamics and individual reflection, we will explore ways of working with different areas and how to promote transdisciplinary projects. We are trying to gather people from arts and culture, education, health, social services, economy, politics, administration, fisheries or agriculture. The training course's objectives are: learning to create a safe space, free of judgements, where there can be dialogue and the presentation of ideas that oppose or complement each other; bringing stakeholders from different fields closer; understanding/experiencing the advantages, challenges and necessities of co-creation. 

Time

27 and 30 Jan, 18h-20h
28 and 29 Jan, 9h30-12h30 + 14h-17h
Participation in all sessions is mandatory

Registrations

Registration is free and can be send, as well as any inquiry, until the 25th of January to rita@azores2027.eu, or through the phone number +351 916828041. The email, or message, should contain the following information: name, age and profession. Maximum capacity of 30 people.

Biographies

Artur Carvalho
Graduated in Civil Engineering by Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. His passion for music led him to abandon engineering to develop performative and communitary projects, with the objective of promoting human development. He has collaborated with the Educational Services of Casa da Música (Porto) and Braga Media Arts –  Theatro Circo. Ha has been doing workshops in the digital music platform DIGITÓPIA and Católica Porto Business School. He is the director of the Cultural Association Wetumtum, which promotes shows for babies, children and their families in Portugal and Spain, Festival Papagaio (23 Milhas-Ílhavo) and TUM TUM TUM project.