“ART & TOLERANCE – A WAY TO COMMUNICATION” 2016/2017

I’m 28 years old, my mother city is Zaporozhye, so I believe in my blood I have spirit of cossacks – great warriors. I have degree in Journalism, sphere of marketing and PR.

My true passion is dollmaking. I love to create little fellows, funny gnomes and borrowers with their own characters and life stories. My dolls are one of a kind collectible interior decorations. To create a doll I’m working with airdry polymer clay and baked in the oven polymer clay, fabrics, paints, wire armature, fur, leather, beads, so on. Dollmaking is amazing kind of art which includes sculpting, sewing, painting and many-many other things I can only imagine. Last year I had personal exhibition in Kiev doll gallery, also I have my own dollmaking courses, where I share with my original technique how to create a doll.

I love different kinds of handmade and handicrafts and I’m looking forward to learn Polish traditional ones. Can’t wait to work with the theater, to develop my skills and to learn new – new materials, technics. I’m so exciting about to take part in creating costumes, masks, decorations, because for me it means possibility to create big, human size doll, which will be moving, talking, living…

Today, when I’m writing this text it became one week since I’m in this project and I can say this week was full of emotions and discovers. We already visited couple Polish villages and took part in different activities, such as workshop about creating paper flowers and creating seeds mandala with teenagers. One of the most memorable activity was to take part in preparing sweets for traditional Polish wedding. I’m happy thanks to this project I have possibility to learn Polish traditions and culture. And I’m very grateful for hospitality of each person we met and of our receiving organization.

There are five of us – volunteers from different countries, with different skills and talents and I’m curious to see what our DREAM TEAM could create together during one year of our EVS project!

In France, i lived in Toulouse for 2 years before my EVS enrolment. I did studies in cultural development projects (specially dance & circus, live performing arts) and i worked as volunteer in a charity association (nothing to see with religion) to facilitate the access to Culture for people who need help (handicapped persons, poor people, youngs who are underperforming at school…). It was my first time i worked with this audience, in the social & healthcare sector.

I come from Le Mans originally. You may know this city, there is the most famous endurance race called “Les 24h Du Mans” in june. I don’t care about it.

That’s all. Thank you to read this text.
Charly Tamarelle

Anyway, as you can see, I’m french. My name is Elisa and I am 24 years old. I studied cultural coordination, mostly for circus and dance project. I have already worked in different associations to organize festival, mainly for street art and circus festival (in France, street art is not only graffiti and hip hop art, it’s also every type of art which takes part in the street. It can be theatre, dance, performance…).

I will stay in A3theatre association for one year with my boyfriend (Charly), who also came for working in the same structure.

I wait with impatience the next meeting, when we will define our tasks! For the moment, I discover with interest every activities proposed by the association. For example, this month, we will participate in manual activities with old people and teenagers, also we will prepare a preview exhibition, we will help with the assembly/disassembly of shows, we will help with a traditional wedding … A great month in prevision!

Furthermore, I discover new cultures, yes I wrote “cultures” with an “S” because my flatmates and co-workers are Ukrainian (they speak Ukrainian and Russian language), Polish and Armenian. It is really enriching and funny. When I go back to France, I will speak English (finally!!) but with a polish or russian or ukrainian accent!