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UNESCO Symposium on Cultural and Artistic Education

  • January 29, 2025

The UNESCO Symposium on Cultural and Artistic Education was held on Thursday, January 23, in the University of Iceland's Hall of Fame. The keynote speaker was Ron Davies Alvarez, conductor of The Dream Orchestra, which is based on the El Sistema methodology. Speakers from the Department of Art Education were Kristin Valsdóttir og Vigdís Gunnarsdóttir who told about the Art Train, a collaborative project between the Department of Art Education and Art for everyone, and then Maríanna Dúfa Sævarsdóttir, a master's student in the department who gave a talk on art education. The symposium was attended by the Icelandic UNESCO Commission, the Ministry of Culture and Trade, the Ministry of Education and Children's Affairs, Art for All, the Department of Art Education at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the School of Education at the University of Iceland, and the Icelandic Teachers' Union.

You can watch a recording of the symposium here.

Photos from the symposium; photographer Kristinn Ingvarsson

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