In 2011 the Prince Claus Fund supported 113 cultural initiatives in 66 countries, gave emergency aid to cultural heritage in 36 conflict and disaster situations and presented awards to 11 outstanding cultural achievers.
Here we provide a selection of our activities in all programmes.
Laboratorio Público is a non-profit organisation based in Colombia. Its main objective is to design strategies that promote social change through communication, education and arts with a particular focus on children and youth in vulnerable areas of the country. Mi rincón (My place) is a series of workshops aimed at producing self-portrait documentaries made by a group of children in Maríamulata Centre, which recently won the Award for Best Informal Art School in Colombia. Self-portrait documentaries were compiled together with a book that presents the whole process.
Mi rincón aims to be a reflection of the life of Afro-Colombian children told from their own perspectives who, despite their lack of basic resources, take to artistic expression to ponder their present and envisage a future. This activity was supported with an amount of € 10,000.
The process of producing a self-portrait documentary will give the participants the experience of recognizing themselves and contributing to their personal and professional development.Organisers of Mi rincón
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