Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

for the installation of new exhibitions at crucial times in the school year. The growth in the
pre-school audience should, however, be stressed, especially after the creation of specific visits
for the age group of 2 to 4-year-olds, an initiative that complements the already existing supply
(and great demand) for children in the group of 3 to 6-year-olds.
The programme of lunchtime visits for interested individuals – “Immediate Encounters / A Work
of Art at Lunchtime” was maintained – as was the programme of weekend visits, now concentrated
into the “Sundays with Art” programme, which implied a significant reduction in the advertised
programmes (previously held on Saturdays and Sundays), a response of the Sector of Education
to the progressive reduction in the number of visitors participating in Saturday visits after
the alteration in ticket prices at the end of 2007.
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In 2008, the various workshop formats designed to respond to the different types of audience
and users were continued: single-session creative workshops at weekends, based on the temporary
exhibitions and the permanent collection, holiday workshops in groups of five sessions, storytelling
workshops – “Restless Ideas” – in partnership with the Almedina Bookshop, “Open Museum”
workshops designed for groups with special needs and single-session workshops for schools.
There was a sizeable increase in the number of workshops for groups with special needs –
the “Open Museum” workshops – and a progressive diversification in the institutions seeking
our services, which reflects the great perseverance of the organisers and the consolidation
of a specialised work that was begun two years ago.
During 2008, the “intervene – Heroes and Villains” project (which had begun in October 2007)
was further developed. This is a workshop of artistic and social intervention carried out in partnership
with the Centre of Studies for Social Intervention (CESIS) and specifically aimed at a group
of 12 young people from the Bairro Zambujal (a social housing estate on the outskirts of Lisbon)
who are integrated into a programme designed to combat the tendency for young people to drop
out of school. Lasting for nine months, the workshop took place on a weekly basis (resulting in a total
of 75 workshop hours) and involved a team of three artistic monitors from the Modern Art Centre
engaging in a work of creativity and reflection in the areas of video, photography and dramatic
expression undertaken in partnership with the team of young people and technicians from cesis,
both in the neighbourhood and at the premises of the Sector of Education, in artistic residencies
lasting for several days during the school holiday periods.
This work resulted in 10 self-portraits and one documentary produced entirely by the young people
and shown to the general public at the Modern Art Centre in March 2008.
The development of this project marks the consolidation of a structural line of programming
developed by the Sector of Education in the field of artistic and social intervention.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation José de Azeredo Perdigão Modern Art Centre • CAMJAP