ArtePollino Cultural Association CV

The association operates actively on the Pollino National Park territory, on the Lucania side, but not only there, being the promoter of a series of initiatives aimed to get local communities, schools, teachers and tourists involved, to popularize this project through the widest collective participation and to awaken people to the arts and the contemporary expressive languages.

In the first edition of the Un Altro Sud project by Arte Pollino, a biennal about art and nature in the South of Italy, the association provided technical and logistic supports to the artists Anish Kapoor, Carsten Holler and Giuseppe Penone, who were involved in the project for the realization of three site specific works, following them in the territory's inspections, organizing meetings, seminars and workshops with the local communities and, moreover, collaborating in their work sites. Referring to ‘the local communities project' (by Arte Pollino Un Altro Sud), the association dealt with the diffusion, documentation and archive-keeping of the material about the "Qui e non altrove. Qui" project by the artist Claudia Losi, it also cooperated with the artists Anni Rapinoja and Nils-Udo in the territory's inspections, it organized their meetings with local communities, it took part in the materials' collection aimed to the realization of their installations.

ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS

April/May 2008
In collaboration with the "Il Cavaliere Azzurro" Association from Veneto, the ArtePollino association was the promoter of an educational route about contemporary arts addressed to students and teachers from Pollino Park. The aim was to push the schools toward the world of contemporary arts, highlighting the relationships with the nature and inciting young people creativity through practical workshops.
The route was divided into three steps:

· Theoretical Seminars for the teachers

· Meetings between schools and artists involved in the ArtePollino project

· Creative workshops for the students

February/March 2009
Ecotourism workshop in collaboration with the ACTA Association from Milan and the ECOTRANS network.

The ECOTOURISM WORKSHOP was a step of the project addressed to the tourist entrepreneurs and to all those who offer cultural, orientational and entertainment services which characterize the tourist offer.

Aim of the workshop was to interpret ART and NATURE in the creation of ecotourist products and services, to make the Pollino's Lucana area attractive.

During the workshop two themes were discussed:

the ecotourist PRODUCT. Which were the market and the experiences that linked ART with NATURE? After the contributions by some experts, it followed a work session with the participants, aimed at representing ecotourist products to be developed or enhanced, whose main fruition is by the ROUTE.

the environmental QUALITY in the accomodation facilities. If the tourist product is based on the landscape's and the natural environment's quality, then also the hospitality must be consistent. The Workshop showed the European Ecolabel, which are the criteria that the European Union considers as qualifying the accomodation facilities which are compatible with the environment. After the explanation, it followed a session "on site" in which the spokesman and the participants visited some accomodation facilities talking about the advantages and the difficulties in the ecolabel use.

The workshop was divided into two working sections, during February and March. The working method was participatory: the experts were called to guide the proposal of the participants, and those had to share and debate them in an open and collaborative way, using the workshop to improve the project planning for the actual operativeness.

March 2009
The association joined Visioni Urbane, a Basilicata Region project, which intends to use creativity's and culture's levers to reach a social, economical and employment development.

The project is part of the Patto con i Giovani and its aim is to reutilize 5 disused or unused buildings, which after the restoration could be used to accomodate creative workshops. ArtePollino is the leader association of the work group who proposed a series of innovative activities and ideas for the Val Sarmento centre (ex-multipurpose craft centre in San Paolo Albanese).

February/June 2009
The association was in partnership with the Training Course for "Cultural Tourism Experts in the internal areas", realized by Apof-Il (Agenzia Provinciale Orientamento Formazione Istruzione Lavoro), in collaboration with AIF (Associazione Italiana Formatori della Basilicata). The course was an important moment for the tourist offer's qualification, in agreement with the aims of contemporary art diffusion as instruments for the local development, which are part of the ArtePollino project. It lasted 400 hours, 120 hours of class-work and 280 of internship. 12 students have been educated.

April/May 2009
The association was involved in educational activities about the contemporary arts, addressed to the schools at all levels, which were promoted to activate different educational routes linked with themes on the relationship between nature and landscape, environment and artificiality, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Castle in Rivoli and its Educational Department. The developed activities allowed to favour the diffusion and the popularization of the ArtePollino project.The route was divided into three steps:

· Theoretical Seminars for the teachers

· Meetings between schools and artists involved in the ArtePollino project (Claudia Losi, Anni Rapinoja, Nils Udo)

· Creative workshops for the students

The teachers involved were:

Anna Pironti - Direttrice del Dipartimento Educazione del Castello di Rivoli

Laura Barreca - Curatrice Junior del MIBAC

Sandra Traverso - Curatrice Associazione Arte Continua

Katharina Trabert - Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico

August/September 2009
The association was the promoter of a series of activities aiming at the popularization and the diffusion of the ArtePollino project:

· Public meetings in the Pollino National Park Municipalities

· Workshop with the artists of the ArtePollino project (Claudia Losi, Anni Rapinoja, Nils Udo)

· Open-air creative workshops

· Opening of the "Qui e non altrove. Qui." project, by the artist Claudia Losi

2009/2010 Academic Year

The association promoted 2 activities in the schools at all levels of the Pollino National Park:

· Art and Recycling. Project about the environmental education on art and wastes

· "I Segreti del Pollino" Photo Contest

August 2010

Promotion of a summer events' and workshops' activities calendar:

· Trips and guided tours. "Routes between Art and Nature: discovering the Pollino, from landscape to contemporary art"

· Theatre-Nature workshops in collaboration with the "O Thiasos" association from Rome

Reading workshops about the "Earth Cinema"work by Anish Kapoor in collaboration with the Latronico Public Library

Collective painting workshops in the square

Painting workshop in collaboration with the artist Luigi Athos De Blasio.

27/28 October 2010

The association was at UrbanPromo 2010, the urban planning exhibition which returned each year in Venice, in which it has been given the "Urbanistica Prize". It is a prestigious award divived into three categories and awarded by referendum, promoted by URBANISTICA, the memorable review of the INU (National Institute of Urban planning), whose publication started in 1933.

For the 2010 edition, Arte Pollino project was awarded for the section Equilibrio degli interessi (Balance of Interests). During the exhibition, the association took part in the press conference for the presentation of the Arte Pollino project's catalogue and documentary, showing the carried out initiatives and the obtained results.

November 2010

The association took part in the educational workshop about Business Plan, organized in the days 10-11-12-13 November 2010 in Potenza, as part of the Visioni Urbane project - "Azioni di accompagnamento allo start-up dei Centri regionali per la creatività" by FORMEZ - Centro Formazione Studi, in collaboration with APOF-IL from Potenza. The workshop was by Francesco Bernabei, the financial advisor of Cittadellarte - Pistoletto Foundation (Biella).

The themes were:

· Definition of the anticipatory business plan

· Risk evaluation

· Statement of affairs reduction

· BP writing by file

· Activities timing, time value and its financialization

· The Set-up concept and its evaluation

· The budgeting

· Advanced cost analysis in time: comparison between different models and presentation of suitable files for excel/openoffice calc.

· Exercises and practice

· Debt and monetary liquidity in the social activities

· Current and future value calculation of an activity, considering the financial mathematics and the practical point of view

· From Business Plan to the balance of the business year

PARTNER AND COLLABORATIONS

Basilicata Region, Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, Ministry of Economic Development, the Venice Biennale, APT Basilicata, Pollino National Park, AATO1 Potenza, "Il Cavaliere Azzurro" Association from Venice, "Arte Sella" Association from Borgo Valsugana (TN), "Arte Continua" Association from San Gimignano (SI), Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum from Rivoli (TO), Pistoletto Foundation from Biella, Pan Museum from Naples, Madre Museum from Naples, MART Museum from Trento e Rovereto (TN), "O Thiasos" Association from Rome, "Studiare Sviluppo" Company from Rome, APOF - IL Educational Agency from Potenza, Associazione Italiana Formatori AIF from Potenza, ACTA Association from Milan, Ambrosia Social Cooperative Society from Latronico, Tellusmater cooperative society.

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