Collaborations in 2015

Peacepainting vil våren 2015 delta i flere samarbeidsprosjekter. I mars reiser Catrine Gangstø sammen med fire kunstnere og en filmarbeider til Bulgaria for å holde maleverksted i et barnehjem for rombarn.

I mars skal det være maleverksted i Mosjøen. Her skal barn og eldre male sammen, som en aktivitet i "Den kulturelle spaserstokken".

I april reiser Catrine Gangstø, en kunstner og en filmarbeider til Filippinene. Der skal Peacepainting i samarbeid med Brobyggerstiftelsen i Sandnessjøen besøke et senter for gatebarn. Det blir besøk i Tacloban og i Manila. Det blir møte med PNBC - Philippines Norway Business Council, og med lokale myndigheter og den norske ambassaden.

I begynnelsen av juni blir det gjenvisitt fra Polen. Om lag 50 ungdommer fra skoler i området rundt Krakow i sørlige Polen besøker Hattfjelldal og Herøy på Helgeland. Tidligere har ungdom fra Bindal besøkt Proszowice to ganger, og ungdom derfra har vært i Bindal.

I juli blir det ny tur til Bulgaria, denne gangen til hovedstaden Sofia, der organisasjonen SPOC driver prosjekter som skal fremme toleranse og respekt.

Peacepainting Exhibition at Bodø Airport

Avinor wrote the following in a press release in July 2013:

On Wednesday 17 July Bodø airport’s Peacepainting exhibition begins. The exhibition consists of 6 pictures from different nations and is found by Narvesen in the departure hall. The pictures can be seen by children and adults until next summer.

Peacepainting is an independent organisation with its origins in Bindal. The organisation arranges painting workshops for children and youth – such that they can express their thoughts about peace and friendship through a language without speech.

The painting workshops are held both nationally and internationally. Each participant comes forward with their own title and possibly some text about the picture. The message is imparted using a text sign which follows the picture at exhibitions. The most important thing is what the child wishes to impart and the aim is that children’s feelings shall be taken seriously.

- “When we concentrate on listening to and seeing what the children impart, it is certainly easier to remember how it is to be little. It is also easier to make decisions that promote life and variety – both when it applies to near and far relations,” says Catrine Gangstø in Peacepainting.

The pictures are exhibited both nationally and internationally. Today you can see Peacepainting exhibitions in the following Avinor airports:

· Kirkenes airport, Høybuktmoen · Brønnøysund airport, Brønnøy · Bodø airport.

After this, exhibitions have also arrived at these locations: Mosjøen, Namsos, Rørvik, Mo i Rana, Sandnessjøen and at the helicopter terminal in Brønnøysund.

EEA project with Poland

The library in the Polish town Proszowice near Krakow has received 1.1 million kroner in support from EEA funds and has started a cooperation with Peacepainting. The project shall run for 2 years. Read about the project at the Arts Council Norway website here. The first phase of the cooperation began in April 2014, when a group of 12 people from Bindal visited Proszowice and Krakow. Seven students from the three comprehensive schools in Bindal participated in workshops in Proszowice together with 80 Polish young people.

At the end of May 2014 a large delegation of 50 Polish people came to Norway. They visited Bindal and Brønnøy. 35 young people and 15 tour guides were accommodated privately. They joined in in hiking to the mountain, Mulingen, in Bindal, and visited Brønnøysund Upper Secondary School and the mountain, Torghatten. They joined in in a painting workshop and met Norwegian young people at a disco.

The project continues in September 2014, when approximately 20 young people from Bindal and Herøy travel to Poland. Report from project travel in Poland September 2014. Read also in Herøyfjerdingen.

A number of Polish young people and artists are coming back to South Helgeland in spring 2015.

Link to website for the project in Poland.

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