Il-Premju tal-President results
Ranking: PTP43-FN1755
Create, Liberate, Integrate – St Jeanne Antide Foundation
Applicant: Nora Macelli
Allocation: €6,000
A project consisting of a number of short creative programmes with diverse survivors of domestic violence and their children. The programmes focus on exploration of one’s creativity and sharing of creative skills, thus establishing a safe space where participants are encouraged to connect for healing, integration and stengthening of relationship between mother and child.
Ranking: PTP 49-FN1761
YeeP!Youth and Elderly explore Photography –Kopin
Applicant: Dominik Kalweit
Allocation: €5,998.02
A project promoting personal, emotional, social, and skill development, as well as the inclusion of youth and elderly persons of various backgrounds, through the exploration of photography. Through the participants’ lenses, audiences will gain unique perspectives onto the past, present, and future of Malta. The project builds on the positive esperiences of YEP! Young People Explore Photography, supported by the President’s Award for Creativity 2015, now focusing on opportunities for intergenerational exchange.
Ranking: PTP 46-FN1758
Drum-Line – Opening Doors Association
Applicant: Prof. Jo Butterworth
Allocation: €6,000
A project linked to the core tuition and continued operation of the Association’s Music Group, that was launched in 2015.
Ranking: PTP39-FN1761
Equality in Music – Down Syndrome Association Malta
Applicant: Joeanna Xerri
Allocation: €5,774.20
A project introducing in Malta an inclusive musical notation system – known as figure notation – based on shapes and colours. The system makes reading of music possible for students who may not be able to read. The method will be taught by the Director of the Resonaari Special Music Centre Finland http://www.aec-music.eu/userfiles/File/polifonia-1-profession-wg-musicians-portrait-markku-kaikkonen.pdf, who is co-developer and teacher of the said method. Through the project, the Association aspires to share the method with music teachers and persons with intellectual disability in Malta, enabling wider appreciation and participation in the field of music.
Ranking: PTP 52-FN1764
Shaping Dreams Together – Karl Vella Foundation
Applicant: Claire Chircop
Allocation: €8,000
A series of ceramics sessions, taking place over a year, for children aged 5–17 coping with terminal illness within the family – and particularly the social and psychological distress involved. The project focuses on children’s natural attraction to clay and on their abilities to be inspired and to create.
Ranking: PTP 50-FN1762
Arani! Ismagħni! Ifhimni!GĦINNI – Youth Residence (YR) at Mount Carmel Hospital
Applicant: Marion Saliba
Allocation: €6,000
A project aimed at using theatrical creative expression to help core participants explore their issues, as well as helping them bring out their voices, with the support of a qualified drama therapist.
Ranking: PTP 44-FN1756
Beyond Sight – Spero : A Training Activity Centre for the Blind
Applicant: David Bezzina
Allocation: €6,000
A collaboration between a community of visually impaired persons and a number of creative professionals, seeking to raise awareness about different abilities and promote integration. The project primarily seeks to provide a thearapeutic artistic experience to visually impaired persons who were born blind, or acquired blindness through sickness. The process, spread over a year, will encourage Spero clients to participate in activities and experiment with various art techniques. The project includes sessions with school children, aimed at helping children gain understanding about blind persons and their abilities. The artistic works created will be exhibited at a number of festivals and venues, where the core participants will share their relevant experiences.
Ranking: PTP 53-FN1765
Il-Ħabib Tiegħi Will – Aġenzija Appoġġ
Applicant: Alfred Grixti
Allocation: €5,000
A theatre-based project aimed at encouraging young people inhabiting particular social contexts to use Shakespeare, his story, and his stories to reconstruct the core group’s own narratives – which will be shared among peers. The theatrical and narrative process is aimed to serve as a learning community and cultural experience in itself. In the second phase, the particpants will perform their work-in-progress in front of an audience of students and particular communities.
Ranking: PTP 54-FN1766
BENG: Boldly Exploring Navigating inGenuity – Youtheme Foundation
Allocation : €6,620
A project aimed at bringing together a number of young people who have dropped out from secondary school, offering them an opportunity to be make new contacts and learn new skills related to creative thinking, problem solving, idea generation, digital media, research, and communication. The work created will be disseminated, with a view to inspiring and easing integration of other youth in society, through creativity and the arts.
Ranking : PTP 45-FN1757
Tfal tal-Port – Film Grain Foundation
Applicant : Claire Chircop
Allocation : €6,000
An educational outreach project with the objective of developing a creative habit in a cohort of teenagers from localities around the Grand Harbour. Through interaction with a number of film professionals, the participants will be given theopportunity to understand the dynamics of film, and to learn how they could tell their stories. The teenagers will be trained and mentored to explore, develop, and produce three original short documentaries focusing on pertinent social and cultural issues to be selected by the participants. The documentaries will be screened in various localities surrounding the harbour, shown on local TV, and uploaded online. The project is aimed at empowering participants, by giving them the confidence to express themselves and exposing them to new ideas and possibilities – with the understanding that, through film, it is possible to help eradicate cultural and social divides and to contribure to long-term cultural development.
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