AddArt is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creation, embellishment and spreading of art and culture in general. This young NGO was founded in early 2014 but consists of highly experienced members and artists who already have had an opportunity to prove themselves both in and outside of their local community. Synonyms of this organization are Innovation and Knowledge, incorporated inside Art.
Headquartered in Thessaloniki, Greece and having a rich cultural canvas, AddArt is focused on social and cultural interest of the general public. Its primary goal is providing classes and seminars in order to “Add Art" in every aspect of life, whenever and wherever it can be applied in such a manner that it leaves a positive mark, increasing the results and helping to reach an optimum outcome for diverse type of projects.
By already having experience in the field of comics, storytelling, filming, animation, painting and sculpturing, AddArt is focused to add artistic and innovative activities for various sectors such as education and entertainment. Furthermore, board and video games have potential beyond the expected recreational aspect and it is something that this NGO strives to use as a tool for providing knowledge in a new and enjoyable way.
Above mentioned art forms are known to modulate values beyond the given joy of creation. By passing on skills AddArt strives to stimulate: teamwork, patience, ingenuity, and problem solving by broadening perception in general and allowing a huge learning potential for developing even further set of new skills. The main idea here is to jointly shape a unique way to cement the message to those seeking to consolidate.
Special attention is given to dissemination of projects simply due to the fact that the Reach is the most important aspect in contribution to Culture and the Arts. Encouraging young artists and creators to disseminate these tools to everyone who would like use them: teachers, psychologists, social workers, anxious people, creative people, teenagers, children and many more.
AddArt is an organization with the ability to spread any idea, lesson or message through art and various forms thereof, having the ability to edit, produce film or animation, to expose, to organize events and more.
Some of the accomplished AddArt events cover the following partnerships and joint actions:
• Creation of special comic issue for children with diabetes, with the Hellenic Federation of people with diabetes;
• Creation of “Stop Motion” animation seminar with Reintegration Department of the Thessaloniki mental institution;
• Making comics for children about football and sports in the weekly children's newspaper Sport Day Kids;
• Creation of animation clip for the “Volunteer Weekend” for Thessaloniki Y.M.C.A.;
• Production of educational animation for ecological agriculture without pesticides;
• Creating series of humorous comics "'Homeless Life" which was awarded by the Hellenic Homeless Association for its sensitivity and approach to the topic;
• Creation of outdoor games for children on recycling;
• Production of short animation clip for the launch of the European Youth Capital 2014 in Thessaloniki;
• Taking part in strategic partnerships and collaborations abroad in England, Malta and Germany with artistic and educational projects;
• Performing seminars for animation, storytelling, comic and other arts, befitting the last 10 years in the city of Thessaloniki;
• Organization and collaborations in events, exhibitions, presentations, festivals etc.
Some of our partners:
Municipality of Thessaloniki
Municipality of Karditsa
Municipality of Serres
European Youth Capital 2014
EKEBI
YMCA Thessaloniki
UNESCO Serres
Panhellenic Federation of people with diabetes
Kids in Action
Arogi Thessalonikis
Now We Move Pan Movement Against Cancer
Fix in Art
Consilium Education and Training Ltd Malvern UKJugend- & Kulturprojekt e.v. Dresden Germany
