Caravan Project participated as a partner and facilitator to the“Through the Lens of the Other” residence conducting a series of workshops in storytelling and documentary filmmaking to various participants working on civil groups related to discrimination, heterogeneity and integration. “Through the Lens of the Other” aims to introduce and explore new ways of understanding and…
We have worked with male and female inmates in Greek prisons, empowering them and giving them tools to articulate their own voice. We initiated intensive workshops in creative writing, storytelling, photography and filmmaking for six months in which the participants had the chance not only to express themselves but also to produce documentary films and a photography book.…
Caravan Project in collaboration with French Excellence laboratory “Empirical Foundations of Linguistics” (EFL) working together in a collaborative project with a group of Roma adolescents. The goal of this project is to empower Roma adolescents and give them the chance to articulate their own voice through participatory digital storytelling. Our motivation is to show that Roma adolescents,…
Caravan project was invited to participate to the artist residence in the balkans, funded by European Cultural Heritage Onstage Caravan Project explored the Balkan landscape of Western Macedonia in Greece, Bitola and its surroundings in North Macedonia, as well as Novi Sad and the Danube River in Serbia; and recorded this exploration by creating a…
Caravan Project has been invited to represent Greece and to participate to the workshops and the community of ESODOC that took place in Bolzano- Italy, Tromso-Norway, Vilnius- Lithuania and through a six months intensive program, tutoring and workshops had the opportunity to develop many of its methodologies and practices around storytelling, co-creation processes, and empowerment…
The main difficulty working with communities is to find ways for the projects to emerge from a process and evolve from within communities and with people rather than for or about them. At the same time managing to gain the support of the residents other active groups in the neighborhood and convince them that the…
Stratis Vogiatzis and caravan project was selected to be one of the seven European artists to participate to one month artist residence in Gibelina Italy. The artists would work together, participate in workshops, research together and finally produce a work regarding the issue of identity in Europe. The project started its journey with an artistic residence (residency)…
Food carries an emotional memory. Certain aromas and flavors make an imprint in our minds and have the powerful ability to return us to a particular place, person or experience much more intensely than a visual or auditory reminde. FFood is a vital form of establishing, preserving and promoting cultural identities. Every gastronomic culture inhabits…
Through a series of screenings in Thessaloniki we sought to revive the art of storytelling, break the exclusions and bring people together. Caravan project has produced more than 50 documentaries-stories travelling around Greece for more than six years. Our intention is these stories-film to function as vehicles of social change. In many occasions thes film the…