PEACE ARTS for BAKWITS 2010: A MINDANAO TOUR

VISUAL ARTS COMPONENT: PEACE TILES IN MOUNTED COLLAGE

THEATER COMPONENT: 'OLI IMPAN'-MSU KABPAPAGARIYA ENSEMBLE

KALIMUDAN CULTURE & ARTS CENTRE

ACT FOR PEACE

ALMA AGUJA-PROJECT COORDINATOR

AL-NEZZAR ALI-VISUAL ARTS FACILITATOR

W/ PINTA OKIR & KEVIN MERCADO

SARANGANI-LANAO-MAGUINDANAO-NORTH COTABATO

OCTOBER 9-26, 2010

The workshop will accommodate both the creative (artistic) and cross-cultural components. They are designed for children or teens but can also accommodate adults that belong to the Internally Displaced Persons or IDP. This workshop is designed for children, the youth and adults that will benefit greatly by improving their own knowledge of themselves, cultural competence and perceptions of community building and other issues that would lead to peace making and will attempt to alleviate their present situations through creative art workshops. Learning will become part of the fun!

Our main objective is to engage both children and adults in refugee communities in visual arts as a creative form drawn from their own creativity. These activities provide local peace advocate institutions with tools to help refugee communities recover from the trauma, terror and dislocation of war.

Art making among the refugees helps rebuild individual and community identity.

The use of art is the product of the belief in its empowering value, especially in an atmosphere where there is a clear lack of a healthy and nurturing environment for the children of the camps. The strongest realization is the power of art and expression through it. The children who used various means, be it theater, literature or art, to create a dimension for themselves, a sort of ‘safe space’ where they may comfortably express the realities they live in.

This workshop will also facilitate the process of sharing of experiences by encouraging collaborative reflection by way of inter-community artistic exchanges and documentation of experiences.