PRESS RELEASE

CARP: Press Release

For the first time, an international school takes the initiative to infuse the arts into school life and the curriculum. Recognising various lacunae in the educational system that lend to stress and anxiety among youth, Canadian International School, Bangalore & Infinite Souls Artists Retreat launch a new and radical arts education program called CARP: Collaborative Artists Residency Program.

The idea behind CARP is to invite national and international artists to stay in residence at schools and interact, through workshop, performance, exhibition and screening, with students and faculty. While students benefit from direct interaction, the artists too are offered the time and space to reflect and explore their own work. In an age of market-driven ideas, CARP believes that art in all its diversity, if generous and questioning, is inevitably beneficial to the individual, the community and larger society. Also, that art can play a catalytic role in creating a common ground between people of different cultures and belief systems. CARP challenges the idea of what constitutes a “good life” by expanding it beyond the materialistic into the twin domains of the heart and imagination.

CARP intends to play an active role in providing skills, incubating ideas and fostering experience in the arts for young people.

CARP at Canadian International School has 3 phases.

Year 1 - Performing Arts

Year 2 – Visual Arts

Year 3 – New Media Art

Canadian International School and CARP are happy to announce a few of the artists who will be with us this year:

- Josefina Baez (Ay Ombe Theatre, New York)

http://ayombe.webs.com/ayombe.htm

- Claus Boesser-Ferrari (Avant garde guitarist, Germany)

http://www.boesser-ferrari.de/

- Emily Grey (Trestle Theatre, UK)

http://www.trestle.org.uk/p82.html

- Tom Cowan (IMAX and Orange Pictures, Australia)
http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/cowan_orange.html

CARP will be documenting the interactions between artists and students/faculty with the idea of developing an open source archive on education possibilities.