Installation Art Project   
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The Palestinian society is a young society. Children and youth make up the majority of the Palestinian population, but in today’s context of Palestine, their issues, interests and concerns is not reflected or seriously taken into account. They are voiceless, they feel frustrated and worthless.

As such, we the International Center of Bethlehem and funded by Tamkeen Civil Society and Democracy Strengthening Project found that there is a need to build a new forum that would give voice to the youth. Installation Art is a creative tool for free expression, by which the youth is empowered to articulate their concerns, to place their issues on the public agenda, a key element for democracy.

Installation Art Program is a 13 month program aims to:

• Train and develop the skills of 10 art teachers working in the selected schools to become familiar with the medium of installation art through two intensive workshops vacillated by two international experts in the field of installation art.

• Train 150 young people selected from 10 schools on identifying and expressing their issues. Also to train them on how to communicate their concerns and the issues deemed significant to the public, through organizing 10 art exhibitions and 10 public debates at their respective schools, and an exhibition hosted at the Cave Gallery at the ICB combining all the diverse artistic expressions and pieces and 1 public debate with decision makers.

• Promote the issues on a wider scale by documenting the whole process of the project from its inception to its completion for future use, in a 10-12 minute film and a booklet published containing all the art pieces that were made.

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