AKTES 2021-22 | Serifos island
Onassis AiR Collaboration
In 2021-22, ΑKTES program travels to Serifos island in collaboration with Onassis AiR and with the participation of Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos / Ionian Bisai).
In February 2022, Latent Community traveled to Serifos and worked together with the children of the island on issues of environmental awareness and protection with a focus on recycling. Over the course of one week, Ionian and Sotiris introduced the children to their artistic process and guided them through the techniques of filmmaking and production. Through a series of participatory workshops the children shared their favourite places on the island and provided images and sounds that became the basis of a film script. The outcome of this process is a short video co-created by Latent Community and students of different ages that presents the story and future of the island through the eyes of its children.
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Photo: Comm'on
AKTES 2021-22 Serifos
AKTES (Pocket Academy for Arts) is a socio-cultural project designed for small insular areas in order to support the participation of children in community life and development.
Each year the project travels to a different island and invites different artists for a series of short residencies during winter months. The goal is to use artistic experimentation as a tool in order for the children to collaborate with the artist and co-create an artistic work that is related to a strategic area of development of each island –for example tourism, culture, environment, etc.
The project was designed in 2019 by the non-profit organizations COMM’ON and Cultópiα. In 2020-21, AKTES traveled to Agios Eustratios and for the period 2021-22 the program took place in Serifos.
