Ein Musabah
Ramallah
Palestinian Territories
- Arts
The Visual Arts Forum is a leading Palestinian institution in the field of culture and Visual Arts, which aims to promote community development in the arts sector for youth and children. It was established in 2002 as a non-profit organization and is registered with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior. Through its activities, the forum instils important values of equality, voluntary action, transparency and accountability. Its programs in politically and socially marginalized and culturally deprived Palestinian communities all across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Over the years, the Forum has impacted around 19,000 children, youth, teachers and artists. VAF contain 7 employees (part and full time), VAF cover its cost through the Visual arts schools and the grants project or provide services. we work all over West Bank in partnership with MOE, MOSD, and work with funds from world vision, UNRWA, war child, Drosos, Tawoon and arab fund,
Vision: Towards a Palestinian society that is aware of its culture and identity, and believes that art and creativity are essential tools for expression, change, development, and the promotion of free thought. Mission: We seek to provide opportunities to learn the visual arts, expand their uses in creating change, and promote free thought.
The Forum, through its four programs, offers a range of services and activities related and specializing in visual arts. These programs are: - Visual Arts Education Program: Evening school visual arts classes target two groups; Young children 5-11 years old, and adults over 12 years old. The forum's work in arts education for adults is organized into an academic curriculum consisting of 12 levels, and two levels for the young category, as each level consists of 48 training hours that are carried out within 3 months. Currently, work is underway to develop a curriculum for teaching visual arts to young people through an artistic committee that supervises and works on preparing the curriculum. The number of students enrolled in the Visual Arts School varies; more than 140 students were enrolled during 2020. However, now, due to the impact of the Coronavirus, the number has decreased to about 70 male and female students. The Forum offers arts education in three educational semesters (Winter, Spring and Fall). The period of each semester extends for three months, and is estimated to cost each student approximately 700 shekels. -Psychosocial Support Program: The program seeks to harness the visual arts to serve psychological and social support, through training specialists in psychological and social counseling, and training social counselors in schools on how to benefit from visual arts in providing guidance to students. The forum works to develop its curriculum in the field of psychosocial counseling, in partnership with the Palestine Red Crescent. - Community Awareness Program in the Visual Arts: The program seeks to explore talents and enhance community awareness on the importance of visual arts. - Economic Empowerment Program through Visual Arts: The program aims to provide job opportunities in the field of visual arts, by providing training in some areas of visual arts that is relevant to market needs, such as: storytelling, animation, and the integration between visual arts and psychological and social support. The program also aims to provide opportunities for practical training through on-the-job training, whether in the local market or abroad, and it aims to create links and relationships between trainees and potential employers in the targeted fields.
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