Inspiration
The Arts in society Award was launched in 2014.
Since then 95 young artists from Brussels and Flanders have been taking part and collaborated with 64 partner organisations. In 2020 there will be 21 artists from different disciplines en 15 partner organisations developing 13 new participatory art projects. Click here for a brief overview of the projects.
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Art takes place in the shared space between sender and receiver. A space like that can only exist when people are open to each others worlds. Sometime you discover intersecting spaces, other times there is conflict. During the artistic process I needed to appreciate that conflict. ‘Some things simply need conflict’, a dear collaborator told me at a difficult moment during our collaboration. As an artist - who is convinced of her/his own free thinking - you are confronted with the limits of your art. In other circumstances you will circumvent those limits, throw the whole thing around, but that’s not possible now. You have to embrace the problem and overcome it. In the social sector people do this the whole time. It’s pretty self explanatory that there’s so much artistic talent in that field. As an artist you can learn so much from people who constantly have to come up with creative solutions for everyday problems. I’m grateful for that.
Charlotte Barry, MASTERS in Music, Arts in Society Award 2014-2015 


TIP
Iwona Pom, master graphic design, Arts in Society Award 2016-2017
As Don Levy said "Never betray the Illusion" - never betray your senses and intuition,
dare to experiment and work hard till it works out!







The feeling of fear of the unkown I had when I started with this project was nothing compared to the feeling of happiness and satisfaction I had at the end of the project.
Yentl Vanderiviere, Masters Music Pedagogy, Arts in Society Award 2016-2017 The project was a kind of a revelation for me, I have never had such reactions to my music. At the same time my earlier perception of people living in old folks homes was totally shattered. I did not expect people to be so talkative, active and have such a positive attitude towards life. The more visits we did, the more I realised that we managed to insert the fundamental basic right for culture into the hermetical surrounding of an old folks home, inhabited by so many music and art lovers.
Artan Buleshkaj, MASTERS in Music, Arts in Society Award 2017-2018