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Tinatin Bregvadze is the Chair of the Board of the Georgian Centre for Strategy and Development, a large, highly-regarded non-governmental organisation based in Tbilisi and operating through projects in Georgia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. She has more than 20 years’ experience working with national and international CSOs, as well as a more recent rewarding experience as Director of the Diplomatic Training and Research Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In taking on the Institute directorship, Tinatin was tasked with reforming and strengthening the institution and applying her academic background, including her current pursuit of a PhD in Education. After 3 years at the Institute Tinatin returned to her role at GCSD and pursuing her passion of creating opportunity for diverse groups in society and particularly the more vulnerable communities.
Tinatin has a long track record in developing and implementing interventions that support a more just and socially equal society, and ‘the community’ is at the heart of her motivations:
“Grassroots is where the ‘real’ life is, so when refugees from Ukraine began to arrive in Tbilisi I knew I had to do something”. That ‘something’ was to formulate a project which would combine an immediate humanitarian response with specific educational methodologies that would support both children and parent refugees. As Tinatin explains, “Ukrainian children who were suddenly ripped away from their normal life of playing with friends, going to school, having fun, and instead subjected to the horrors of being a refugee. Having met some of these refugees I immediately developed some activities to support them. Unfortunately, at that time in Georgia, there was limited access to resources to assist the refugees, so I was delighted to learn about the opportunities of the Solidarity Fellowships, which was exactly what I identified with.”
And so Tinatin’s Civil Society Fellowship began.
Tinatin together with her colleagues developed an approach that would engage the Ukrainian children and youth, and provide support to their parents to integrate into their new surroundings. She formed a team of artists and art educators, and counsellors, and managed to run a summer of art classes involving 50 children, and to organise movie screenings, talks and city site visits. The children’s art classes even culminated in a final exhibition held at Tbilisi’s Centre of Contemporary Art.
“Interestingly, although my fellowship involved a number of carefully structured activities and provision of safe space for Ukrainian children, it was the informal coming together of the mothers of the children which may have had the biggest impact.” By nurturing the involvement of the mothers, Tinatin was able to provide them with opportunities to talk about their experiences and to build up new friendships. This process was the essence of the ‘solidarity’ fellowship.
Of course, as an educationalist, Tinatin is happy that the specific methodologies used in working with the children (and parents) during the art classes were effective and that they will be sustained. The ‘package’ of art classes and methods have been institutionalised within a local parent/artists informal group and during 2023 a revised set of classes will be delivered to other vulnerable children through the organisation ‘Parallel Class’.
“The programme we developed is quite unique as it is more oriented on socialisation and the involvement of children in group activities. This is one of the reasons why ‘Parallel Class’ plans to continue the programme, incorporating into it the lessons learnt throughout this process. They will make it available for Georgian and Ukrainian kids. This is good news and was possible only because of all the hard work of the teachers, artists and other volunteers that helped me make it happen.”
| Country | Georgia |
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| Country | Ukraine |
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| Country | Ukraine |
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The Art Project: Paint Their Life aimed to inspire children and youth from the Ukrainian orphanages, rehabilitation centers, children’s homes through their engagement with the local artists. To transform the interior of the above public facilities and bring joy to its inhabitants, Stefaniia and her friends painted 7 rehabilitation centers in Kyiv. The art project was followed by the development of the PTL official website to showcase project impact and raise visibility/financial resources for their future interventions. At the final stage of the action, Stefaniia organized a Project Exhibition at the Main Hall of the National Academy of Arts and Architecture engaging the project beneficiaries, volunteers, the Union of Artists of Ukraine and other stakeholders.
The action delivered the official website fundptl.com.ua ensuring the project sustainability and active involvement of the respective donors/private contributors to the social initiative. During the fellowship, #PaintTheirLife artists visited 7 buildings, painted more than 10 walls, created the scenery for the Children’s Charity Festival, and inspired hundreds of young people. Also, the excursion to Kyiv and exhibition at the National Academy of Arts and Architecture engaged 20 teenagers from Rehabilitation Centers of Kyiv interested in art and creativity; they had the opportunity to watch how future artists study, work and what they should do to become a professional artist. As a result, young people raised their awareness on the study opportunities at the Academy through the direct networking with the university lecturers and students.
| Country | Ukraine |
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This action was a follow-up initiative of the creative project: Zaharia’s World: Restoration and Digitalization of the Zaharia Cusnir Photography Archive previously implemented by Nadejda Cervinscaia, EaP Fellow 2017. To promote the heritage of Zaharia Cusnir – the Moldovan photographer and film-maker, Victor formally established a non-profit organization – Pod to proceed with the further projects linked to Zaharia’s creative materials. Also, the action aimed to digitalize the full photo archive and launched it from the very early stage. Following this, Victor created a website and professional social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) to present the digitized photographs. Even two years after the project, the Archives are still in the spotlight and attract world-renowned magazines and media.
The action raised the visibility of the Moldovan non-material heritage from the ’50s-’60s and produced 3,751 high-quality digitized negative photos from Zaharia Cusnir’s archive. Additionally, Victor established a Non-governmental organization – Pod; the organization revives Zaharia’s World as it has already delivered a documentary film about the photographer. Other tangible deliverables of the project are the website www.zaharia.md and the social media pages, including Facebook hitting 2,000 likes in 6 months after it was first launched. The website and social media channels enable the local and international public to return to history and enjoy the Moldovan ethnocultural identity. Through the restoration, digitalization and dissemination of the archive, both projects provided access to knowledge and cultural heritage of Soviet Moldova which has never been disclosed before.
| Country | Moldova |
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The action: Zaharia’s World: Restoration and Digitalization of the Zaharia Cusnir Photography Archive was a creative project investigating historical, cultural, ethnographic evidence about Moldovan society and everyday life during the Cold War. The photographic archive was found in devastating conditions in an abandoned house in Moldova. Nadejda joined her colleague, who found the collection, and then mobilized a team to restore 70 negative films of the photographer and film-maker – Zaharia Cusnir. To present the digitized materials, Nadejda organized the “GAZE” Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Chisinau, Moldova. The activities engaged wider audiences and arose discussions about the Moldovan historic and non-material heritage. Even two years after the project, the Archives are still in the spotlight and attract world-renowned magazines and media.
The project produced 70 high-quality digitalized negative films and photos exposed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Chisinau. The exhibition was open for 30 days and involved up to thousands of visitors. Through the restoration, digitalization, research, and dissemination of the archive, the project provided access to knowledge and cultural heritage of Soviet Moldova during the’50s-’60s, which has never been disclosed before. The prints used for the exhibition are now largely used for smaller promotional events in Moldova, which, again, enhance the visibility of the project. In 2020, Nadejda curated Zaharia’s Archive exhibition in Lublin, Poland, at the renowned festival.
| Country | Moldova |
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