EndLESS PRESENT | LIMITED FUTURE, a project of the Volum Art Association, financed by the EEA Grants 2014-2021 within the RO-CULTURE Program, realized with the support of KAUFLAND Romania, as main sponsor, and of the partners NORSENSUS Mediaforum Norway and the Museum of Bucharest.

ENDLESS PRESENT LIMITED FUTURE is a non-formal and alternative education project aimed at children aged 10 to 17 in Alexandria, Slobozia, Turnu Magurele, Oltenita, Urziceni and Mizil, which began in May 2021 and will run until October 2022. Through comics and illustrated stories, children in the six communities will look for solutions to combat plastic pollution, one of the most serious threats to the environment and climate.

Six cities, ten schools, over a hundred participating children, ten teachers, five trainers, sixty comics and storytelling workshops, seven exhibitions – this is what the project looks like in numbers. Moreover, it is a foray into the imagination of children who are stimulated to work in a team, to find solutions to combat plastic pollution, to transpose them visually, to develop their critical thinking. Empowering them is a sustainable tool for the healthy development of local communities.

ENDLESS PRESENT LIMITED FUTURE brought together in the first two workshops 31 children aged between 10 and 18 from “Sfântul Andrei” Gymnasium School and “Matei Basarab” Pedagogical High School coordinated by teachers Maria Popescu, Sorina Elena Vasluianu and Anca Barbu. The children were guided by three trainers involved in the project: Alin Ivan and Aneli Munteanu, for the foray into the world of comics, and Ana Agopian, who deciphered the secrets of creative writing.