Join our European exchange and connect across the continent
From NoVember 2020 – MaY 2021
Amateo invites citizens from across Europe to take part and connect, through the creative exchange of ‘Postcards from Home‘.
WHAT HAS MADE YOU FEEL AT HOME RECENTLY?
WE ARE INVITING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES FROM ACROSS EUROPE TO SEND THREE POSTCARDS FROM HOME
The first postcard: ‘Home is…’
November 2020
Sharing what home has meant for you currently through words and images
The second postcard: ‘Home was…’
January 2021
Sharing a memory of home (an image, story, smell that brings back a person or place that meant home to you) in the past
The third postcard: ‘Home will be…’
March 2021
Sharing your vision of home for the future
Take Part
Step 1
Post your first postcard to Galway, Ireland – European Capital of Culture 2020 before 15 November 2020
Download instructions template
(See terms)
Step 2
Receive a package from Galway including your postal partners first postcard with their address + a gift from one of the local creative workshops in Galway.
Step 3
Continue your exchange of postcards.
Join the creative workshops online (see below and register for updates)
Share your postcards with us pioneers@amateo.org via Facebook
Join Postcards from Home creative workshops online
26-30 November 2020
LAUNCH conversation and THREE workshops including Lockdown Portraiture, Textile Landscapes and Postcard Journal Bookbinding broadcast live from Galway (Ireland), European Capital of Culture 2020
DEC
2020
Online Creative Workshop, 15 December: Traditional Lithuanian ‘Sodai’ craft
JAN
2021
Re-re-CONNECT: Join pioneer projects sharing their activity
JAN
2021
Online Creative Workshop, 28 January: Picture Sonnets
APRIL
2021
Cut-out Animation: Animate postcards with a smart-phone or tablet
Mar
2021
Online Creative Workshop, 1 March: Indo-persian Miniature Painting
MAY
2021
CONNECT meeting prior to live event
JUNE 2021
Online creative sessions linked to the live event ‘CONNECT The Unexpected‘ in Maribor (Slovenia).
The words and images created by everyone taking part in the Postcards from Home project, across Europe, will inspire new collaborative participatory creative works that blend the art-forms and themes shared between November and May.
Find out more about the live programme and register for the CONNECT the Unexpected creative residency
Postcards from Home project is supported by funding from Culture of Solidarity programme led by European Cultural Foundation
