"UA&ST" as the Experience of the Month!

Our international training course "Urban Art & Social Transformation" has been chosen as the experience of the month in January bulletin board of the Andalusian Institute of Youth.

Organized by our organization, together with El Circulo Breaking, and thanks to the subvention of Erasmus+ program, this course has been a great success!

Visit of "Espressione Hip Hop" from Italy

Our friends from the Italian association "Espressione Hip Hop" - Freesteps crew, who participated in the course "Urban Art & Social Transformation", came this morning to visit our headquarters and discover our activities in the socio-cultural center "El Consul".

We want to wish good luck to all of you (in bocca al lupo!), and also our fellows from El Circulo Breaking, in a break dance competition this weekend in Almeria.

Interviews With the Organizers of the UA&ST

Our video-making team recorded the last interviews with the organizers of the "Urban Art & Social Tranformation" international training course. Together with a lot of videos of the training course itself, it will be produced into a documentary of this project. Members of the Iniciativa Internacional Joven and El Circulo Breaking explained their objectives, activities and achievements through this opportunity. All this was a big step towards more joint projects in the future, to which we are looking forward with all our hearts.

    

UA&ST: Day 8

Yesterday night participants were enjoying a farewell party with typical Spanish and Malagan food, sharing their last hours together.

After a week full of dance, music and colors, we greeted our participants who went their homes. We are a little bit sad, but in the same time happy and pleased we participated in this project. These young artist have learned a lot, developed new skills, acquired/improved competences and, what is very important,
strengthen their will to continue with the urban art and become more than just artists. Now they are able to become social transformers.

We hope we will continue to collaborate and create much more events and cooperation in the future!

Thank you all! :)

UA&ST: Day 7

The highlight of this day was definetely the big event of the open doors in La Caja Blanca (art and cultural center of Málaga City Hall) which we were preparing for a long time. In this event participated more than 250 persons throughout the whole day.

In the morning we had basic and advanced workshops of the different elements of hip hop. Our participants were teaching classes and implementing foreground and background in the training course.

In the afternoon we started to present the "Urban Art & Social Transformation" project and the Erasmus+ program. Ana Belén Dominguez from "Iniciativa Internacional Joven" and Alejandro Morales from "El Circulo Breaking" explained their objectives, activities and results achieved throughout the week. Our international participants were sharing with the entire local population emotions and impressions and explained how they came to engage in the street art, how their desire to professionalize and act as social transformers came to their hearts.

Later in the afternoon all participants were able to show the local population their artistic skills. The DJs had a possibility to start the musical afternoon together with Dj Wave and DJ Bionic Escasso. The rapper who won the competition the previous day had the opportunity to perform in front of a large audience.

The graffiti artists participated in a competition made by Taco Bell, which requested certain parameters and provided the prize, won by Sidney from France.  The jury was formed with Malagan writer Lalone and Alfonso Navarro, representative of Taco Bell.

Finaly, there was also a break dance competition where a lot of people gathered to see the glorious energy of bboys and bgirls. DJ Wave and DJ Bionic Escasso were in charge for music and judges were XVen from Málaga, Muñeco from Badajoz and Chicano from Madrid.

Basic workshops and masterclasses at “La Caja Blanca"

This morning the participants of the Training Course “Urban Art & Social Transformation” are putting into practice what they have learned during this week. They are teaching hip hop elements to all the children, young people and adults interested on it. Come to “La Caja Blanca”, it’s for free!

UA&ST: Day 6

After very long and fulfilled Friday, participants used Saturday to prepare their workshops for Sunday's event at La Caja Blanca. They were preparing two classes (one for basic and one for the advanced level) by selecting the content and activities, preparing a pedagogic approach, dividing responsibilities between them, etc. Tomorrow they will offer to the population of Málaga workshops of hip hop elements for free.

Moreover, we present the Erasmus+ programme, which has financed this training course. We spoke about its objectives, its key actions, the possibility that young people have to participate, deadlines, etc.  

All participants showed great interest in all these actions, especially for the European Voluntary Service, youth exchanges and training courses.

Afterwards they were also introduced to Youthpass, a certificate that the European Union gives and where all learned skills and adquired competences are recorded.

With the help of the trainers, our participants drafted their youth certificates, reflecting their new skills adquired throughout the course.

And then we went to “La Cloaka”, an alternative place which is very close to “La Noria”, where young people usually gather to enjoy good music and cultural activities. There all the youth could participate in a rap competition open to everyone. The judge was Little Pepe who declared Mc Farina as the winner. But this night wasn't only dedicated to rappers, but as well to all the bboys and bgirls who could show their dancing skills, and graffiti writers who presented to us their artistic works.