Kids University - A guide of survival

Kids University - Summer 2013: "Brave New World: A guide of survival, creative innovation and happiness”

The Kids University at ARTos Foundation returns this summer with an exciting two-week workshop entitled "BRAVE NEW WORLD: A guide of survival, creative innovation and happiness", that arose as a response to recent developments, as now more than ever we need children to develop their creative and critical thinking and to provide them with valuable knowledge and inspiration. The Kids University at ARTos Foundation is a non-formal education workshop that is addressed to children aged 6-11 years old which will take place from the 25th of June to the 5th of July 2013.

This summer workshop consists of a vast variety of creative activities, ranging from science experiments and paleontology, music and theatre to gardening, cooking, kids and laughter yoga, held by professionals in their respective fields.

The goal for this Kids University "Brave New World: A guide of survival, creative innovation and happiness", is to help the young participants to learn how to re-invent and re-design, to become creative with their city and to appropriate and transform public spaces. The workshop aims to encourage children to become citi-zens with a social consciousness, creative and innovative minds and to be free thinkers.

"When the mind is made to work within a given framework, to commit to certain rules, it is very difficult to take a creative leap, to carry out combinations that open new horizons. We probably need to cultivate in children the elements that make us human. And these are not so much memory as originality and inventiveness, not so much speed as fantasy, not so much predetermined as unexpected, not so much square logic as creative absurdity. After all, what characterizes creative geniuses is not knowledge, nor memory, nor specialization. It is, among others, play and the ability to connect elements from different cognitive areas."
Eugene Trivizas

Kids University is a workshop for curious and charismatic children, which has been taking place at the ARTos Foundation since 2005 with great success. Every Christmas, Easter and summer, educators and professionals from the fields of the arts, sciences and even philosophy, create a specially designed programme where children have the opportunity to develop both brain hemispheres: the creative hemisphere and the logical hemisphere, as to be able to envision and materialize their dreams through creative expression, scientific knowledge as well as the strengthening of self-confidence. The citizens of tomorrow with these characteristics can communicate, coexist harmoniously and can create a world that takes the humankind one step further.

25 June - 5 July 2013 08:00 – 13:00* at ARTos Foundation

*The children can be at ARTos from 7:30 until 14:30 and engage in creative activities with the instructors.

Cost:
Week 1: 25 – 28 June €120 (for siblings €90)
Week 2: 1 – 5 July €150 (for siblings €120)

For registrations: 99611159 and 22445455