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Arts Lab 4.0 - Reflection time for 2022

Volunteering in our organization is challenging, with many ups and downs, with a strong connection to the local community, requires a lot of flexibility and commitment, but pays off, providing meaningful memories and lifelong friendships. We are grateful to have an amazing team of eight artists from six countries this year.

And as it is almost the end of 2022, we took a moment of evaluation-reflection, to see where we are with the project. Here you have the answers of our volunteers.

1. What did you bring and how did you contribute to Arts Lab 4.0?

  • criticism, rationality, energy, ideas, curiosity, some skills 
  • music, giving concerts, workshop to revive the love for music in children
  • support, help to work with new art materials
  • passion for the art, kindness, involvement, my feelings, my past experiences
  • my vibes
  • art, culture, wisdom
  • connections, energy, feelings, ideas, time, heart
  • my solidarity, my good vibes, my time, my perspective and advises, my ideas, my love, my kindness, my help, my friendship

2. What did you get from this experience?

  • opportunities to show my work, learned more how to be responsible for myself and my work, great friends, to work without thinking what others think
  • connections and friendship, the opportunity to share art with other artists, true and strong experience and feelings, chances to grow and to learn more about myself and art, unforgettable moments
  • a welcoming atmosphere, knowledge - different languages and culture, skills, so many new experiences, motivation and inspiration for my future, new relationships, some resources, support
  • I gained many new experiences and memories, learned a lot of new things in this project
  • new friends, English level, cat allergy, new passions
  • love, friendships, challenges, newness, knowledge
  • help, love, new cultures, inspiration, good energy, friends, family, ideas, creativity, art space, a time to think, learning, knowledge, new perspective, breath, be a child again, social life, travel
  • love, memories, people, heart, attention, traditions, culture differences

 3. What have been your personal challenges?

  • out of the confort zone - being in a new place, with a lot of new people, share time and spaces with other people all the time, being able to really connect with local community, involving children and teenagers in arts
  • nothing forced me, everything continues as it should, sometimes is hard to get up early in the morning
  • shyness, insecurity & self doubt, weird feelings - not being very open, feeling a bit isolated, language barriers, pressure I put on myself, stress, comparing myself, not being very good with people
  • having ideas, high expectations, disappointments, being creative
  • cat allergy, living with more people, food problems, missing my culture
  • discover more myself, improve artistic and personal skills, don't judge myself, follow what I feel and not what I think, be autentic
  • hippie style, relaxing myself, no think on the future, reduce anxiety, believe on me, be confident, be proud of myself, be myself, trust in people, not be scary about future

 4. What opportunities do you see for the future?

  • being able to make the students more involved in my art and in what I do, establish deeper connection with the people and the project 
  • to be more creative especially with my own ideas, to show my work, to move people
  • opportunity to see more of Romania during my free time and mid-term, opportunity to learn new language, learn more about Cucuteni, Rroma and Jews in Romania, get more experience working with students, exchange with other artists, people, trying new art techniques, skills & hobbies
  • new experiences, friendship and live in the moment
  • to meet new people, to learn more about new teaching methods, more personal development
  • contamination, create authentic relations, people, go out of my confort zone, collaborate, open my mind, broke stereotypes, express myself and my ideas, receive feelings and energy from different people
  • learn different arts, meet different people from different countries, add more artworks to my portfolio, improve my English level 
  • find my passion, be happy, meet people, new job, new studies, work with community, make art, learn from my colleagues, lead, live in other country, make things that I really like, a good life for Tormenta, memories, experiences, participate in museums.

5.  How can you improve?

  • being more open, trust the people and the things that are happening
  • practice more, to work and not care about what people will think about my works, just focus on myself, my idea
  • meet with new people, not repeat my works do another stuff, stay warm, eat well
  • be more proactive, be more open, ask for help, to not be afraid to try things, not being afraid to fail, learn from others, live more the moment, reflect more, share more, fix my sleeping schedule 
  • since the natural flow is open to development, the development will be inevitable as long as I work on my tasks because I am trying new things here
  • continue to not judge myself, stop controlling, try to find the beauty in imperfections, do something very different, continue to collaborate and contaminate with others, enjoy more the process, believe and trust myself and my resources
  • more research, more experiments, trials and errors,  to not stress myself and relax, have fun
  • I need to trust in people, forget the past, I am doing great, work harder, be enthusiastic, believe in me, put my soul, valorate time with others, learn Romanian and more things,  English, ask, communication 

 Arts Lab 4.0 is a project funded by European Solidarity Corps programme with the support of European Union.

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