Art Club Borgerhout

  Starting from conversations in the neighborhood, Art Club Borgerhout is a pilot project in visual art & education, it is about making local youth's needs and talents visible and remunerating artists for their support during the Art Club Borgerhout sessions.   Young people have been hit hard by the corona measures, and much talent is lost. As an artist, Eline De Clercq set up this initiative to offer the practice and knowledge that can make unseen talent visible. The experiences of young locals are listened to, and in order to support the development of their talent, the sessions offer workshops by visual artists that have an interesting new, broad vision on contemporary art. It is not the intention to teach, but the club is an educational tool in self-organization. We work on self-confidence, gathering knowledge, broadening areas of interest and offering opportunities.   Tuesday evening sessions were open to everyone between 16 and 25 years old, and