Monday, 25 May 2015

UA&ST: Trailer


Within the project “Urban Art & Social Transformation” that our organisation Iniciativa Internacional Joven, carryed out thanks to the subvencion of the Erasmus+ programme and with the collaboration of El Círculo Breaking, we created different audiovisual products that we are starting to publish. All the material is subtitled (English/Spanish).
Today we want to share with all of you the trailer of the documentary that soon will be available. A small summary of all activities made last November during the international training course that was carryed out in Málaga. 


Thursday, 29 January 2015

"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!

Friday, 16 January 2015

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.







Thursday, 8 January 2015

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.


    


Monday, 10 November 2014

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! :)

Sunday, 9 November 2014

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!