Sansusī Well-being Residencies

Sansusī Well-being Residency Program is for socially engaged contemporary artists. This program welcomes artists who seek to shift the artist and audience relationships and power models in social institutions by involving marginalized groups in the creation process. Those target groups are children from the isolated, rural areas, elderly living alone in remote areas, as well as clients and staff of the Psychoneurological clinic, elderly house, and social center of Aknīste. Sansusī Well-being Residency was created In 2018 to promote the dialogue between art and society and promote the power of art as a tool for society's well-being. Artists in residency develop inclusive art projects and use arts-based methods with local social and healthcare organizations.
Sansusī Well-being Residency Program fosters public awareness about the various forms of contemporary art, involving target groups and the local community in a larger sense as well in creative processes as in work in progress presentations and concerts. The Program contributes to the well-being of the involved target groups by providing them with opportunities of meaningful dialogue and exchange among themselves and with the involved artists.
Sansusī Well-being Residences are a program implemented by the association "Sansusī" in Jēkabpils district Susēj, where contemporary art is created in cooperation with local youth and seniors, the Aknīste Health and Social Care Center and the Psychoneurological Hospital.