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Black Canvas was an international youth exchange program for young people aged 16 to 30, coming from Latvia, Hungary, Poland and Greece. The aim of the project was to make young people aware of importance of taking care of mental well-being and to provide tools of expressing emotions in a constructive and creative way, giving them the key to reason with themselves through reflection. Within the boundaries of Black Canvas project, participants worked on series of creative works, starting from drawing paintings and all the way to theatrical performance on stage.
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Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt
The participants of the project have learned to manage their emotions with the help of art. Meanwhile, they have tried out various visual arts techniques to shape their artworks.
An important outcome of the project is that young people had the opportunity to meet and learn about other cultures.