The Istanbul Toy Museum is an associate partner of the WEAVE project, a European project run by the Explora Children’s Museum in Rome, Italy, the Waag Society in the Netherlands and Association Art Land in Bulgaria.
European Weaving: Products, Values and Exchange – The aim of the Weave project, made up of a series of cultural events and workshops that tell the story of culture and art through textiles, is to bring together children aged 3 to 12 with their families, teachers, museum staff, university staff and textile students, and to present cultural heritage through innovative, non-formal activities, artistic performances and handicrafts.
WEAVE’s primary aim is to provide 3 free events on textile art in the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Italy (in September and October).
“Zigzag – Textiles, textures and the feelings they evoke, a clever children’s game!”
www.zigzagproject.eu
The main parts of the project are training workshops with educational kits for teachers, 12 educational video presentations, 3 press conferences, a good educational guide and a public exhibition with pictures of all the projects.
As an associate partner, the Istanbul Toy Museum will take part in these 3 free Zigzag events in Amsterdam, Sofia and Bulgaria and, together with the Waag Society, the Explora Children’s Museum and Association Art Land, will help and work with art students, and with children, families and schools in the workshops.Before the events, it will attend a training seminar in Sofia on textile art and the workshops.
All our participants will give us the opportunity, in an international context, to meet people with different skills, backgrounds and circumstances, and to work together on exchanging knowledge on the same projects, combining methods and increasing efficiency.Through this experience and the 12 workshops carried out by WEAVE, our museum will increase its skills and experience thanks to cultural exchange, and by gathering ideas and content, it will be able to offer families and schools more creative and educational services in the future.This project will give us the chance to get to know countries, museums, artists and people, the response to museum workshops and textile art events, how people see the museum in real life and, of course, their cultures.This project will be a great chance to get to know other museums and institutions in Europe, to build new partnerships across Europe and to work more effectively on cultural projects.
Project Duration:
1 August 2013 to 31 March 2015
The WEAVE project is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union.