ESAI EN ROI Cultural Organisation of Macedonia - Thrace

ACTIVITIES Our volunteers are mainly young people, who are seeking opportunities for personal development or they are interested in gaining professional experiences in the sector of performing and visual arts. Some of our members are also interested in supporting activities of social interest or they have a minority social profile (youth with fewer opportunities, learning difficulties, mild mental disorders, disabled, etc). EER is interested in projects supported from the European Solidarity Corps, KA1, KA2, kA3 erasmus+ and Creative Europe Projects. COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS EER collaborates with other institutions and Associations related to Fine Arts, Tradition, Research, Health and Education, Sustainable Environments and Quality of Life aiming on upgrading the quality of its services linear to contemporary needs and ICT standards. Some of the most important and regular affiliated partners are Institute of Nutritional Research & Education (support in QoL activities), Konstantinion Research Center of Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology (EER implication in Research), Children’s Creativity Center KDAP PLATON, Club of Sign Language Distribution, etc. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES EER is participating in research projects related to Fine Arts and a) education, b) health, c) elite performance, d) innovation and e) disabled.EER SOCIAL MINORITY ACTIVITIESEER is supporting Social and Special Population Minorities to participate in Art-Creation & Sport activities with a manner that promotes the positive rather the negative options and perspectives of their social identity. Disabled communities participate in the annual festival of inclusive culture, where we are one of the four main coordinators. Moreover, disabled youth 15-25 years old are able to participate to activities of talent promotion in the field of arts and all of our activities as active citizens offering their services, promoting our activities or participating in them (https://esai.gr/dhias.html). Our upcoming festival, focusing to creative minds with much of innovation and contemporary fast-track skills and competences upgrades in fine arts is the handiedancefestival www.handiedance.com CAREER ORIENTATION AND TALENT PROMOTION in ART-RELATED OCCUPATIONS EER core has only one department concerning professionalism and career practice of youth. That is the EER Department of Dancetheater. Since 1997 is EER regularly producing dance-theater and dance performances, cooperating with several dance-companies, performers, choreographers, directors, musicians, scenography designers and technical assistants. The productions concern and deal with Greek social social topics or Greek culture and tradition. Moreover, since 2004 EER implements young artists' nights and since 2017 screening tests of young talents in Fine Arts (https://esai.gr/talent.html). ECO-PROJECTS EERcomt is located near to a former military camp, now on, a park without clear legal identity; nowadays it is claimed by many public and private bodies, which are arguing about its final formation. WE are trying to promote the idea of developing the area to one of the largest city-parks and to promote this idea across the citizens where the green is less and the pollution elevated. Our planned activities are sports & artistic events and campaigns about the park and its hidden treasures! Since Autumn 2019 we are trying to include those activities to ESC. We also started on claiming our participation to several local Eco-campaign activities of PavlosMelas Municipality of Thessaloniki Region (in which region we belong). https://karatasoupark.org Exhibitions EERcomt has to show very few regular Outdoor activities and more rarely Exhibitions were our Members have the chance to expose their sport or artistic talent through team work or independently. Publications EERcomt is supporting her own sector of Publishing. The publications are open to public and are related to EERcomt actions or aims. Art-Studio Members of EERcomt are meeting each other in outdoor places rather in a classical indoor dance-room, jamming through arts and creativity. All the activities are open to public. The seminars and studio activities are free of charge and concern the activated EERcomt members. EER CLUBS • Artistic club very Monday with EER artists guiding and supporting for making several creations within the park, interacting with the natural environment, recycling, etc. Also appropriate with disabled population • Sport Club every Wednesday and Friday; fitness by utilizing bike or running routes that EER Volunteers created; cleaning the park; taichi, crossfit, yoga, aerobics, fitness, etc depending the will of the group and the trainer/ supervisor that leads the group • EER mind game clubs: every Sundayavailable to all, several mind games for the public, available to all with the presence of volunteers throughout a non formal learning process (learning by others). • EER touring: within park or to nearby parks and out of the city (with bus) depending the participation. This happens every 2 months (February, April, June, August, October, December) • EER handiedance events: appropriate also for schools (several visits to schools after being invited) and every 2 months a special event within a park (every January, March, May, July, September, November).