CIVIL SOCIETY: 282 PRACTICES
EDRA supporting the quality of life and the rehabilitation/integration process of disadvantaged individuals being at risk of social exclusion, as well as programs for the prevention & the sensitization of the community around mental health problems and the promotion of mental health in general.
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International ART4MORE Festival aims at connecting Contemporary Art with Mental Health and raising awareness on mental health issues.
The initiative is addressed:
2-day festival, from 2007 until today.
ART4MORE is an innovative International Arts Festival, linking contemporary Art with Mental Health and raises awareness on social and mental health issues. The annual festival is conducted by K.S.D.E.O. “EDRA” since 2007, in celebration of World Mental Health Day (10th October). Each year the festival explores a different central social awareness issue through contemporary international artworks, including visual arts, music, film, drama, dance, architecture, new media and design. (URL: www.art4more.org)
ART4MORE during time:
1st ART4MORE
6 October, 2007 – Dutch Institute
The 1st Festival was organized by K.S.D.E.O. "EDRA", motivated by the disastrous fires in the Peloponnese and the difficult consequences on the psyche of the people.
• Photographic exhibition from the area
• Presentations from realized interventions
• Discussion for ways of intervention and psychological support of vulnerable groups
D.I.Y. - ART4MORE 2015, 10 & 11 October, Impact Hub Athens
TAILS OF THERAPY - ART4MORE 2014, 18-19 October, VRYSAKI
VISUAL STORYTELLING - ART4MORE 2013, 12-13 October, ΒΡΥΣΑΚΙ
Visual storytelling, art, communication and learning, especially for children with learning difficulties.
TACTILE FESTIVAL- ART4MORE 2012, 12-14 October, Pop-Up123
Contemporary art forms are being explored with all senses; operating therapeutic in psychosocial rehabilitation and improving accessibility to culture for new target groups.
"TACTILE" Exhibition, with tangible projects and projects accessed via different senses:
Volunteer escorts sighted, trained by National Blind Association.
NON-PLACE ART - ART4MORE 2011, 7 - 9 October, The HUB Events
Non-Place Art Exhibition: 100 works of Greek artists and mental health units in post-its, white pages, moleskines, calendars and any other surface. Return to primary forms and experimental art, as the art of "mentally ill" and development of a spontaneous "picture language" as a way of expression and alternative therapeutic mental health recovery means.
Therapeutic Architecture - ART4MORE 2011, 7 - 9 October, The HUB Events
Workshop and Exhibition on Therapeutics Architecture projects in Mental Health Structures
SOCIAL DESIGN - ART4MORE 2010, 9-10 October, Yoga Bala / Art Gate
REPRESENTATIONS OF DIVERSITY - ART4MORE 2009, 9 - 11 October, Art House
Film, theater and visual representations of diversity, involving the aspect of Greek and foreign artists.
Collaboration: International Film Festival RENDEZ VOUS WITH MADNESS (Canada) International Alternative Mediterranean CORTO DEL MED Festival (France).
ART4MORE 2008, 3-4 October, Art House
Two-day event: public awareness campaign, theatrical performances, film screenings and music events.
Until today:
Athens.
2007 - 2015:
Under the Auspices:
Cooperating associations:
2014: SAPT Hellas, THERAPYDOGS, Therapeutic Riding Association of Greece, School Dog Schools for the Blind Lara, English Research Institute Anthrozoology, ΙSAZ International Society.
2013: Playback Nuevo, Playroom Group, Group Children On Stage, Experiential School.
2011: Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, School Game, Synthesis, THEOTOKOS, PEPSAEE, Make DIODOS, EKOIPSY, Make METAVASI.
2012: Art and Mental Health Center, Puppet Mairivi, EKOIPSY, Panhellenic Association of the Blind, Blind Lighthouse.
2010: Graphic Designers Association of Greece, EPAPSY, PEPSAEE, THEOTOKOS ART GATE.
2009: Playback Ψ.
2008: Athenian Puppets, "Kaleidoscope", "ANEMOS" (PEPSAEE).
Media Sponsorship
Athens News Agency, Mega Channel, Athina 984, Mad ΤV & Mad Radio, Athens Voice, Eurocharity, Global Sustain, ελculture.gr, DIESI 101.3, EN LEFKO, eirinika.gr, deBop, culturenow.gr, forfree.gr, in2life.gr, Naftemporiki, Eleftheros Typos, Sportday, StarPress, NATURA, Apopsi, MAKEDONIA, thetoc.gr, avecnews.gr, Rizopoulospost, newpost.gr, livemedia.gr, monopoly.gr, iefimerida.gr, newsitamea.gr, athensvoice, sport8.gr, lay-out.gr, ygeia360.gr, Alteractive.gr, Psychografimata, culturenow.gr, flowermagazine.gr, zoosos, infokids.gr, press-gr, gynaika.gr, idradio.
Approximately 40 employees and 10 volunteers per year.
K.S.D.E.O. "EDRA"’s ART4MORE Festival has being evolved during time and has been established in the field as the first Festival in Greece that links Art and Mental Health.
Utilizing this 9 years experience, "EDRA" is the Coordinator of a five European organizations’ partnership for the approved project Networking European Festivals for mEntal Life Enhancement (NEFELE Project), implemented under the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Actions:
• 1st European Festival, Athens, 1-16 October 2016
Bouziani Museum, Fine Arts
• Founding Conference of the European Art Festivals Network for Mental Health, Athens, January 2017
Further results:
• establishing a unique European network based in Greece
• first European Festival established in Greece
• Greek leadership body at European level.
No Connection with Global Goals found