Contacts

C.A.R.M.E.N.

Ribeira da Azenha, CP 668

7645-065 Vila Nova de Milfontes

Cellphone: 963766814 / 917938062

E-mail: contact@carmen.pt

Partners

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Objectives

The C.A.R..M.E.N. association gives special attention to art and feminine arts and crafs and develops specific activities in the field of recovery of know-how and identities, with three objectives:

create prospects for rural women who can, on the one hand, improve their situations and, on the other, constitute essencials for new forms of social progress ans sustainable development.
value art and culture as the essential identity dimensions of society progress.
be a concrete example of C.A.R.M.E.N. Seminars and C.A.R.M.E.N. Formations program implementation, allowing deepen the same, focusing on the valuation of the society components that are more easily discriminated, exclued or neglected, that is, the women and manual work, as they are essencial contributions for rural development and social progress.

More precisely treat up to the:

recover and value the know-how in the process of disappearance in craft fields and feminine arts and crafts (including culinary crafts).
put in value the contribution of art and art crafts for a more equitable society, providing economic opportunities to disadvantaged women artisans and developing the concept of “art fair”.
promoting innovation by the meeting between women and designers.

Partners

For these activitie, C.A.R.M.E.N. developed a partnership with the company Philozoia which helped to create the art dolls.

Activities already done

Ethnographic research and creating art dolls prototypes with the support of a russian artist, Ekaterina Lipnika.

Training of women for the production of art dolls.

Promotion and marketing.

Planned activities

Continued support to the project until its sustainability.