Summer Academy for Children and School Students - opening in Sofia
The XI edition of Summer Academy for Children and School Students (SAfCSS) officially started on 3 August 2020 at the National Academy of Art (1 Shipka Street) with a festive happening. Students of the National Academy of Art had prepared numerous activities and surprises for the young artists. The programme of the first day included a workshop "Man and Masks" and activities dedicated to the 120th birth anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - the father of The Little Prince. Children and school students made Exupery’s plane and everyone's favourite characters - the Prince, the Fox and the Rose. The day finished in front of Academia Gallery where the children presented their works and paraded wearing the masks they had made.
The key highlights of the cultural and educational programme of the XI edition of SAfCSS of the National Academy of Art will be announced.
The Summer Academy for Children and School Students is a cultural and educational project of the National Academy of Art and St. Pimen Zografski Foundation at the National Academy of Art. Over the ten years of its realisation, the Summer Academy has established itself as a long-awaited event for young artists. Bachelor’s and Master’s students from different specialties at the Academy, graduates with a second specialty "Theory and Practice of Art Education" work with the participants. The organised classes create opportunities for acquiring basic knowledge and skills in the following areas: Academic; Experimenting; Plein Air; Visits to Museums and Galleries; Happenings. Participants (for free) in the SAfCSS editions are also disadvantaged children and adolescents with whom work students from the Master's programme "Art Therapy".