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Heart4Art
Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Heart4Art is an ambitious youth exchange (YE) that aims to involve young people to create the street art in the multicultural atmosphere. Street art will be used as a tool to change and inspire, to move people and improve the space. The project will host young participants from four countries (including Spain) in Gijon. Youngsters will have the chance to work together with a well recognized, appreciated and rewarded graffiti team called Boa Mistura and with local artists to create a common project. In this artistic intervention participants will transform the walls of a building, offered by the municipality.The main objective of the project is to explore the talents and share ideas by raising awareness about cultural diversity through the graffiti art. The project will gather young people to learn from each other by exchanging skills, knowledge and experiences in a non-formal setting through interactive sessions with the outcome of making a piece of street art.Objectives of the project:- enable volunteers to work with one of the most creative and well known professionals in the field of visual activism as a way to raise values.- broaden young people’s minds through sharing their own culture in an international atmosphere by using methods of non-formal education in graffiti art.Methods used during the training will contribute to the process of informal and non-formal learning, social and personal development of the participants and exchange of experiences and competences among their peers. Each national group will held workshop on one of the topic of training and in this way will be supported active participation of participants and learning from each other.
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