I begynnelsen av juni kommer 35 ungdommer og 14 voksne fra Polen på besøk til Helgeland. Gruppen skal først besøke det samiske kultursenteret Sijti Jarnge i Hattfjelldal, og kommer deretter til Herøy. Se programmet under for flere detaljer. Høsten 2015 skal en gruppe norske ungdommer reise til Polen, som en avslutning på prosjektet som startet i 2014. Fra Prozowice til Herøy og Brasøy - HERØYFJERDINGEN
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.
Workshop in Vevelstad, Norway
I februar var det utstilling av malerier etter maleverksted på Forvik i Vevelstad kommune, på Sør-Helgeland.
Meeting with Namdalshagen AS
This winter, our general manager Catrine Gangstø has participated in courses for founders, and will receive guidance from Lars Petter Langås at Namdalshagen (Næringshagen, Namsos). Peacepainting is further developing its platform and method. The board updates the business plan that will form the basis for an application for support from Bindal Utvikling AS. Before Christmas, the foundation received new support from Nordland County Municipality, and now hopes that it will be possible to bring the work into a new phase, with permanent operations. The goal to be able to finance more permanent positions. Gangstø also gave a lunch lecture in Namdalshagen in February. On the same day, paintings were also exhibited at Namsos Airport, which is now the eighth airport in Norway with paintings from Peacepainting.
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.
News report in Rana Blad
Article in Helgeland’s Blad
News report, NRK Nordland
Exhibition at Helgeland Museum, Bindal
News report from Ytringen Avis Tuesday 30 July. “Peacekeeping with brushes and colours”.
May 2013 - News report in Namdalsavisa
“The Huffington Post” – April 2013
On the 12 April 2013 we got a great review in The Huffington Post: “Peacepainting – What the World Needs to Learn From Children”.
June 2012, Nordland - Nordland County Council
Catrine Gangstø informs about art and peacekeeping at Nordland’s Country Council.
February 2012 - Even Brevik
Even Brevik and his mother Siw Elin Ingebrigtsdatter Brevik outside “Éspace des Arts” in the city of Sfax in Tunisia.