PRO ART & Co

Presentation

www.proartandco.co.uk

About Pro Art• Pro Art & Co presents continuation of Pro Art Gallery and Pro

Art Mobile Cultural Centre, which was established in London in 1992. Now, Pro Art is involved in an innovative multidisciplinary approach to education linking heritage, history, culture, science and environment as an unavoidable concept of human existence and an integral part of informal learning.

• Our aim was to introduce less known artists, performers and writers from the Balkans and Central Europe to Great Britain. Later we expanded our mission and started working with the wider world promoting education, heritage, culture and science.

• The activities include: exhibitions, lectures, music events, theatre performances, literary events, courses and informal/non-formal adult education.

Pro Art Aims

Our aim is to facilitate communication, bridge cultural and language barriers and create informal learning opportunities for children, adults, old and young people. The goal is to improve their learning, sustainable life, participation, motivation and social inclusion.

Target groups

Our target groups are people of all ages and background and those interested to expand and improve their knowledge personally. Our trainers and tutors are professionals in the different fields of activities,

curators, artists, musicians and

educators. We work with diverse

ethnic groups, disadvantaged

and isolated, also professionals

and volunteers who support

our projects in various ways.

ActivitiesThe activities include: workshops, lectures, cultural events, learning through direct experiences and contact with the learning material and collections at the museums and libraries and other informal learning places and we participate and organise intercultural visits throughout UK and Europe.

ActivitiesWe work regularly on the weekly/monthly bases with a group of 50-70 participants age 18 - 80+ who developed and improved their social life, communication with people of different social background, practical skills, knowledge and experience. Pro Art includes young children in the specific projects, story telling and art. We also create the opportunities for the intergenerational communication and learning.

EU Projects

Grundtvig

Our participants/learners are included in mobilities to other European countries where they meet staff and learners from the partners countries, discover more about different cultures and traditions, learn some basic words in foreign languages which facilitate their initial communication and forge friendships with people whom we visit.

HEAD 2009-2011

Heritage Education for Adults, Exchange of Methodology How to Use Heritage in Adult Education - HEAD

Lithuania - Vilnius

France

Italy

Other ProjectsThe project Health and Lifestyle Change is a series of talks and workshops, once a month, where we introduce some basic knowledge about health and human biology and inform the general public about wellbeing, some foods which support healthy lifestyle and help to prevent many common illnesses or subdue other harms to the organism.

Climate do change… AND DETERMINES OUR LIFESTYLE AND EATING HABITS

African Masks This public exhibition was about the original and traditional African art, masks, figurines and small objects, made by anonymous artists from various tribes across the continent, made in different periods. They were arranged in groups of objects presenting various aspects of tribal life, important in their daily routine and rituals, without commercial value. The topics included: ancestors, fertility, marriages, warriors, nature (animals and plants).

The Silk RoadWe presented the history of the Silk Road, one of the most exotic travels and written chronicles in the world, which brought exchange of goods, medicines, cultures, arts, faiths and knowledge from the East to the West and vice versa. The exhibition included some interesting details, lively lifestyle of the typical Central Asian’s markets and other important places from the region, information about their tribal traders and their middlemen, including Marco Polo’s travel and Mongol’s influences in the world.

The Serbian Medieval Cultural Heritage

The exhibition aims to present the formation of the Serbian Medieval Kingdom under the rule of Nemanjić’s Dynasty from early 12th c. until mid 15th c. After the 15th c. Serbia came under the Ottoman’s rule and that brought this successful, cultural and rich Medieval Serbian Kingdom to an end.

Mobile Balkan

Pro Art & Co in association with

The Serbian Society

The Bulgarian Embassy in London Bulgarian Cultural Institute London

present the first joint concert to launch

THE MOBILE BALKAN

Project

Devorina Gamalova, violin Bulgaria

Sanja Stefanovi , piano Serbia

Mobile Balkan is an initiative to bring together individuals, organisations, institutions and media from the Balkan countries to contribute towards a joint objective to present and promote the unique traditional ethnic heritage and cultural legacy of the Balkans.

Pro Art 20th Anniversary 2012

• The University Women’s Club London hosted Pro Art Club