tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10288805466332536462024-02-02T16:04:02.080+00:00WALKWAY PRESSWalkway Press is a series of workshops and events taking place in my flat and around the Leopold Estate in East London. The aim of these events is to create possibilities for a shared experience between artists and non-artist communities, generating different energy on the estate by encouraging experimentation and participation. Some of the outcomes of the process are being incorporated into a non-documentary film.MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-54721698458931552772012-07-05T00:39:00.002+01:002012-07-05T00:39:16.575+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We collected some of the works and props that children made and took last few photographs ... and then when everything was packed and the door were closed together with Saima we displayed some of the works around our walkway. They destroyed their work few days later... maybe it was for fun ... I guess I might have forgotten how it feels to be a child ... but I find it a bit sad that there was so little respect for their own work.</div>
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We all moved out. My diary, filled up with notes and unfinished texts lays on the living room table. My sofa is covered with drawings, letters from children and many other things that we made together... I try to make sense out of all of it, understand what those years spent on the estate were about. It's not easy and I often feel confused and frustrated ... finding no answers ... or at other times things seem just too obvious...</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Saima: mmm…I don’t know, we only live here for 4
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">It's been a long
time since my last post. I came back from Pakistan with a head full of ideas,
motivated to work work work. But it takes time to adjust to London, and so
those first weeks weren't that easy and coming back to live on the estate didn't
feel that great. I found it much emptier then when I had left.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">It really feels like the end. Metal panels
that block the whole frontage of the flats cover most of the estate at the
moment, and there are new ones being put up every week. On some floors there are just these
panels, or panels and one lonely door, an entrance to the last occupied flat.
My friend Sandrine lives on a floor like this. With no one else around it doesn’t feel
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">As the building dies, and people keep moving
out I start to realise that I only met a very small group of the tenants, and
that my knowledge about this place is very limited.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I attended a Benagli Wedding last week. I
went to the engagement party two months before, but the wedding felt very
different. I had never experienced a wedding like that. The nicest thing about
it was that some of my neighbours were there and meeting them outside of the
estate, seeing familiar faces in a crowd full of strangers, felt like a
confirmation of something, and as I'm writing this now I think about what that
'something' might have been.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I was seated at a table with other
non-Bengali guests. We were the only table of foreigners and there were
hundreds of other guests who seemed to know what was going on and what their
role at the wedding was. Everyone except our small table seemed to be immersed
in the wedding. We were observing, carefully moving around, always keeping a
safe distance, cautious not to offend or disturb the wedding ritual. </span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Its funny how one can tell the difference between
someone who is waiting, knowing what they are waiting for, and someone who is
pretending to be waiting. Choosing the safe position of someone who is
standing, someone who is walking around, coming back, having a lassi, then a
bit of pakora, then again five steps forward, a very shy smile… I was
pretending to be waiting, hoping for one of those familiar faces to tell me
what to do. But no one helped me to find my way around.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I realised that the lack of attention didn’t
come from the lack of care, but from an expectation that I would feel 'at
home'. My neighbours, in some way, considered me as a family member. And here
my Western scepticism came in to play and my own understanding of family bonds
revealed as so different to that of my Bangladeshi friends. I was a bit lost
after all, and people around didn’t feel like my family because despite the
fact that I knew them and liked them, I was aware of all those cultural rituals
that were so important here and now, and my lack of knowledge about them made me
lose my safe ground for a while. Not wanting to offend people around me by
doing something inappropriate like sitting at the wrong place, I felt relieved
when I saw others who looked like they didn’t know the rules either and I
joined the non-Bengali team at their table.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">So is it possible that awareness of our
cultural differences, instead of making us closer to one another, created an
obstacle in our relationship? A
sort of distance? Or is it that those differences would always be there?
And some sort of distance too? Perhaps by getting to know the exact type and
scale of the difference we are able to position our selves in relation to it,
making it acceptable and obvious, not a black hole of uncertainty anymore but
rather a field of the known that we can walk over without much emotional
engagement.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The Bengali wedding seemed to start and end
in chaos for me. We arrived, ate, and then everyone took photos with the groom
and bride. Zillions of combinations between aunties, cousins, mothers, fathers
and brothers, the end to photo arrangements seemed never to come. No speeches,
not much chit-chat, how different to all the weddings I’ve been to before! There must have been a perfect sense to
it, I even looked it up in Wikipedia. But the description of the wedding
rituals didn’t match up to what I experienced. I guess the weddings held in
London are slightly different to the way it’s done in Bangladesh,
adjusting to what is and what is
not possible in the UK, or maybe it’s not about a place but about passing time.</span>
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turned out to be from the Leopold Estate. They've lived there longer than
anybody else I've met. We had an interesting conversation about the way the
Leopold estate was changing, about the people that lived there at the very
beginning and the people that live there now. Although it was very interesting
to hear them talking about the estate I couldn’t escape the feeling that there
was a reluctance to address the real problems. Was it because we were at a Bengali
wedding? Or was it because as
years went by the couple chose to focus on what was positive in their lives,
leaving problems aside. They were a part of the Estate board and initiators /
promoters of various communal
actions on the estate, they were just about to organise a jubilee party and
then planning to open a new social club.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">They told me that in two weeks time every
tenant would be moved out, well, everyone except tenants like us (not on a
council list, but renting a place as a affordable housing through one of the
private organisations or charities) and "homeless people". I wasn't
sure who they meant by "homeless", as no one seemed to be homeless
around here, but they explained that this term was used to describe people that
are still on a council waiting list. These people are waiting (often for years,
Ashraf’s parents – 6 years) for a permanent house with controlled, much cheaper
rent than the market offers. This is because they are unable to rent a house at
the regular market price. So apparently two of the families that live on
the same floor as me are considered as 'homeless'.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Last week one of
the ‘homeless’ families moved out, leaving just one last family left on my
floor, and some new tenants that I haven’t yet met. We had the last workshop
with the children who are leaving their flat on Saturday. I decided to explained to them again the concept behind the project and why I thought our film was
needed. I showed them fragments of the footage that we filmed together before.
I also showed them examples of how this could be edited. We talked about how we
could change the mood of the film, how we could direct the viewer towards a
certain way of looking, making them hear what we would want to say. Then I
showed them articles with the work I did some time ago for two different
magazines, a work where I used their images, presented their work, and wrote
texts inspired by what they had told me.</span>
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also told the kids about how I thought about this place before I came
here, that to me and to many people that I knew estates like ours seem scary.
When we think 'estate' we think poverty and crime. But do they always go together?</span>
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estates and they said yes. It made
me think of a colleague of mine that once told me that the first time he went
inside of a non-estate house was after he started to go to college and he went
to see his new friend at their home. Is it possible to imagine how a different
way of living is if we have no chance to see it?</span>
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show people that don't live here that life on the estate is not about crime and
gangs and that we are all nice and friendly here. Are we? – I asked. They initial response was that not, but after a bit of consideration they noticed positive sides to themselves and other people that live here. I think it was important for the kids to distinguish 'I' (I as the individual or as 'me and my family') from the estate as a whole, or from those who come here and make mess or steel. Not everyone is the same and not everyone has to stay the same.</span></span><br />
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I listed all the people that already looked at what they did and that made them
realise that it was possible for other people to listen to them. The mood
changed and the children started writing. It was really amazing, a very rare
moment when we were all working together, in agreement, all on the same plane.
This is when Shuhana wrote the opening lines for the film, and I don’t think
anyone else could have said it better:</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><i>‘</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><i>People think that places are bad or good by the looks.
But is that really how it is? Shelmerdine close has very dirty and scary walls
and that may scare some people but it’s not what’s outside that counts, it’s
the inside. People in Shelmerdine Close are very nice. People lend, help and do
favours for neighbors. This is why you are watching this today’</i></span>
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</div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-40007974026215000072012-02-29T07:57:00.005+00:002012-02-29T09:06:18.432+00:00I'm on an art residency at VASL in Karachi, Pakistan. It's an amazing time full of interesting conversations and meetings. There is ten artists involved in this projects, but two didn't make it to Karachi ( Egyptian artist was refused visa just before boarding his plane). On Thursday I'll be giving presentation when I'll also talk about the Walkway Press project. It's interesting to talk about a project like this in a place where class divisions are so present. <div><br /></div><div>I live in a nice little bubble here... moving by car from one place to another.... less fortunate people's shapes and faces passing by... their images dissolving in a dust of the everyday... sometimes becoming painfully sharp when my car slows down... forced by the traffic... rarely by a red light.</div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1OfBbc-AGj0RmISqBCMAlG9lv6odSmncio_N6BeAWmS95zVcSSLH_uKmKEtTmsUE5MEYhBOnSSMTKJzpTnm4pxx8ifnPO710NYgQvSLIhx25Fr9Pr6RSikk3WOs3SZdQUr2UsGXAYcDn/s1600/VaslFlyer.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1OfBbc-AGj0RmISqBCMAlG9lv6odSmncio_N6BeAWmS95zVcSSLH_uKmKEtTmsUE5MEYhBOnSSMTKJzpTnm4pxx8ifnPO710NYgQvSLIhx25Fr9Pr6RSikk3WOs3SZdQUr2UsGXAYcDn/s400/VaslFlyer.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714465313951918690" /></a><br /></div></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-12358512869878036262012-02-17T10:37:00.003+00:002012-02-17T10:39:29.966+00:00Machines rumbling in my ears. 'Monday to Friday' sound of the Leopold Estate.MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-42932294562064331412012-02-12T03:20:00.003+00:002012-02-12T14:50:37.355+00:00I'm watching footage that we filmed on the estate three weeks ago. CHAOS! total chaos! but so funny! and so much of how it really is over here... Annalisa came from the outside of the estate... she held the camera still... keeping the distance between her and everyone around... I live here and I'm too involved in what's going on to keep that distance, so I never film like that. I am a part of that chaos...<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-45024044328356778452012-02-11T22:19:00.004+00:002012-02-11T22:37:19.745+00:00sometime I need to have a break from the estate... from it's dirty corridors... from fresh spit on its walls, stairs and mirrors... from the cold... the draft... from the smell of weed... from the broken glass... from lifts that hardly ever work ... from pools of urine on the lift floor ... from the sound of machines building new estates outside... from lack of my own space... from .... and from... but never from the people that live there... maybe just from the inability to adjust myself to that place... there is always a feeling that I belong somewhere else.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I spent one week in Clapton. A friend of mine left me his keys.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-69356079064727797802012-01-30T18:54:00.003+00:002012-02-11T22:19:06.496+00:00What a day! We had a very special workshop today, creating characters for the film. Those characters were the 'spirits of the estate'. <div>Ludo was leading the first part of the workshop, helping to make costumes and explaining to kids what character in the film was. We will need to work a little bit more on that, as just as we started filming kids became aware of other people (their family or friends) looking at them and they refused to wear masks... becoming someone else. Initially I felt a bit frustrated, we had equipment and camera operators organised... When I think about it now, there was something interesting in their refusal to were masks, to become 'the spirit of the estate'...or any other character that they had created. Younger kinds, when asked about who their character was, would reply that it was themselves. Musharraf made another Musharraf and etc...</div><div><div><br /></div><div>I need to be careful of how much I want to push my own vision of the film... as it was always supposed to be the film made with... not about... if it is ever possible to avoid the 'about' aspect completely...</div><div><br /></div><div>I think Ludo made an interesting observation saying that we need time to build characters, to make children understand that once they perform in the film they can become whoever they want... and that being a Devil in the film doesn't mean that Ashraff is a bad guy... (He created the Devil, but then was afraid to go outside in the mask, because he thought that other people will perceive him as someone bad)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The overall energy was great this time. A massive THANK YOU to Ludo, Federico, Annalisa and Andre, as each of them brought amazing energy with them. Federico was fantastic, explaining to kids how to make music...and they seemed to enjoy it a lot! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-78583801255866609112012-01-24T01:26:00.003+00:002012-01-24T01:40:19.480+00:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">I wrote a text titled <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; "><i>Blue is Blue, but Grey can be Blue too. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; "><i>Notes from the Leopold Estate. </i>It was</span> inspired by the Leopold Estate and people I have met here. The text, together with few photographs taken on the estate (by myself and by children), was recently published in Deja Vu magazine (<a href="http://www.theselection.net/zeitschrift/">www.theselection.net/zeitschrift</a>).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"> </span><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="http://www.theselection.net/zeitschrift/21dej.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 355px; height: 496px;" src="http://www.theselection.net/zeitschrift/21dej.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-73923547361173697242012-01-22T01:42:00.003+00:002012-01-22T01:44:55.203+00:00Oh! and great news! Tomorrow is an engagement party of a son of my neighbours. I was invited and can't wait!!!! Everyone was running up and down the block with presents, sweets and flowers today...MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-7431123539544840772012-01-21T22:37:00.009+00:002012-01-22T01:41:16.758+00:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1K3-3lsgDn8E5QqmJGpEzPAUDx0-8KRZS98R2Dzm7GQgvWrc1VZI_h28XLt7ExuO8lEySlC1axlG-CGZtkrVWGlW-jd5EwNvLM2ha9ajiRyrJLAojfw0G_dQVDYYGjJ3uB1Y7NGCCQOD/s1600/IMG_8643.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI1K3-3lsgDn8E5QqmJGpEzPAUDx0-8KRZS98R2Dzm7GQgvWrc1VZI_h28XLt7ExuO8lEySlC1axlG-CGZtkrVWGlW-jd5EwNvLM2ha9ajiRyrJLAojfw0G_dQVDYYGjJ3uB1Y7NGCCQOD/s320/IMG_8643.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700264651284223250" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOx-O4Sbm1RicEK0mhZ4ZvqaTL82RNAnaVxBbY8hVsvzJ44XuhIhg9oeFDvuyqiqkzx36YRPbhjg5C4Dd7-cmO2gt4i56iVsWcfL4LY0DBM5BKJ7C7oBpujjqXNA_1pvXItdlmTYIwNnx/s1600/IMG_8648.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOx-O4Sbm1RicEK0mhZ4ZvqaTL82RNAnaVxBbY8hVsvzJ44XuhIhg9oeFDvuyqiqkzx36YRPbhjg5C4Dd7-cmO2gt4i56iVsWcfL4LY0DBM5BKJ7C7oBpujjqXNA_1pvXItdlmTYIwNnx/s320/IMG_8648.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700264642098591026" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKvFgcBSKP8kjKee7D-pd3MN0CLgqQO6tjxISFzJd_9z0K6iEL42po-VO0rSf0UJ3n4e60EQJAuBwvQTWdj1nNMaIJ7T3Ugfsp1mKiuNuoJKeff-E3odK4BJKZHoyUKQMQO4xe4K8BYX_y/s1600/IMG_8642.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKvFgcBSKP8kjKee7D-pd3MN0CLgqQO6tjxISFzJd_9z0K6iEL42po-VO0rSf0UJ3n4e60EQJAuBwvQTWdj1nNMaIJ7T3Ugfsp1mKiuNuoJKeff-E3odK4BJKZHoyUKQMQO4xe4K8BYX_y/s320/IMG_8642.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700264626921968274" /></a><br /><div>Time seems to be flying, and so it is flying on our estate... I thought that our last party was just yesterday... and it was almost three months ago! We had various workshops since then...most of them focusing on small projects, where work was made immediately. Then, I went away for few weeks. Today we had another workshop. This one became a starting point for a short video that will be presented to the local community during the next party for the neighbours.</div><br />We are making masks...creating 'spirits of the estate'. These spirits will become 'alive' in a short video. Few of my friends became involve: Ludo and Andre as puppet experts, Annalisa as a camera operator.<br /><br />It feels, that workshops became a generally accepted activity on our floor, which is great!<br /><br />Here are some images from today:<div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJK4h-9z6W50H_8zp3qabJx6ixjxdFahp-CMHPcQkUpmcGYTc8UFRL95WkHH2-nEBaOLbpN_BL8N2BP86UfS3afD6KAIr7lkO91bNG1kIr38VwZXMiAIC5zwq1iAjomPefbL6PcwUZNfed/s1600/IMG_8545.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJK4h-9z6W50H_8zp3qabJx6ixjxdFahp-CMHPcQkUpmcGYTc8UFRL95WkHH2-nEBaOLbpN_BL8N2BP86UfS3afD6KAIr7lkO91bNG1kIr38VwZXMiAIC5zwq1iAjomPefbL6PcwUZNfed/s320/IMG_8545.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700255835324095090" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4uhYjwF4or3jOjH-0r47lZ4gD6NEhoAD4FFwF0Th_piqCXa5GNeD9GG2-8Dq2mBBXUbWjN1WXbB-l9wC6qroiaZJBJbG455QgWdUnpj9tJEL2677Yh9wSM6L51ohmI-Jno9tkE3Mzzgg/s1600/IMG_8542.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZG6Bi7sFl7z4MB_w0NgXhKFN3F972KBZa2bjTEifOAWdJApIJRTGirx3YIzr6VnMs32dyQ4GpdD2Mw3utHKEZ-CRckKGpFJmP1-peQ3ogx2cnlFxUWYUmrF_p6R1eMCEGOI7xKba2_oGP/s320/IMG_8632.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700236772936945218" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-65541715574091000072011-11-06T16:50:00.002+00:002011-11-06T17:33:29.110+00:00<div>Exhibition of works by children that live on my corridor and some of their cousins.</div><div><br /></div><div>For this PARTY for the neighbours we turned ground floor of my flat into a gallery, removing furnitures and covering shelves with white fabric. We made tags with description of work including name of the artist, title and medium. Last few months I was working with children encouraging them to experiment and to initiate activities. Ludo and Catharina - my flatmates, and Sandrine that lives in the other part of the estate were great help!. I wanted children to feel proud about their work, and for their parents to recognise art making as something positive that is worth continuing. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEcliW4hA3k7EFbzhfh_Vk9sscr5xD6drM-KH9VafOWzGw3NIaf1SdWCMo65QzV97mY5Nfbr9SXeGDxatk7_9mvqB8dRfpxD04YyFMJ0SJwAiqSMnXeXrx20fTIGAqYtHGczA11DC5AMd/s1600/IMG_9954.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEcliW4hA3k7EFbzhfh_Vk9sscr5xD6drM-KH9VafOWzGw3NIaf1SdWCMo65QzV97mY5Nfbr9SXeGDxatk7_9mvqB8dRfpxD04YyFMJ0SJwAiqSMnXeXrx20fTIGAqYtHGczA11DC5AMd/s320/IMG_9954.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671927643445861362" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">Selected drawing and paintings. The day before the exhibition Sandrine and myself discussed with children which works they were going to show. We explained to them that there is not enough space to present all drawings and paintings and ask them to choose two works that they were most satisfied with. We also asked them about the reasons behind their choices. Then we collected titles and Happy created a printed list of works.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq260msjV_110dJ0Z2biBXqAJ4aBp6ibhFBraz0W4qN4czo5rltPWVIJm3V6QBjLBN8d0BI7OjgmXifbeSzjU-j1QA0_q6GoJ4goGhyphenhyphen9GLU23H9XDHkSPSpJy7gkAPaePvtlTYMMv1HhPy/s1600/IMG_9984.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq260msjV_110dJ0Z2biBXqAJ4aBp6ibhFBraz0W4qN4czo5rltPWVIJm3V6QBjLBN8d0BI7OjgmXifbeSzjU-j1QA0_q6GoJ4goGhyphenhyphen9GLU23H9XDHkSPSpJy7gkAPaePvtlTYMMv1HhPy/s320/IMG_9984.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671927637441059442" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">Musharraf wanted to exhibit a short text - an 'invitation like' introduction to the PARTY for the neighbours</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Pa4S5ocGLEXpGvOJ1yPw3YJkZT3wI-IC19mbbYNPssnxRwktpQtuggFNw5AWGaaCFYFe-9yftU1FnZGNygraMVJ9tthK9-HobWbiU8CzrjTMGuKWmKbu8eG9zxxR9NLSIGAFHHbWT4fP/s1600/IMG_9961.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Pa4S5ocGLEXpGvOJ1yPw3YJkZT3wI-IC19mbbYNPssnxRwktpQtuggFNw5AWGaaCFYFe-9yftU1FnZGNygraMVJ9tthK9-HobWbiU8CzrjTMGuKWmKbu8eG9zxxR9NLSIGAFHHbWT4fP/s320/IMG_9961.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671927627353996466" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguMt2jhUuwm5L0qoyLyYjOnMZrOLBHl10g0mzbghqd3g_ICqm7BnPyL3MrxQMVYf_kZwA_3AJAhCHe2-RwdO9AfT7RLbfUjFrfPKwfB33RTs-5nJMczSiY4ZGEbs-zTfXBdmWyCfktoipz/s1600/IMG_9983.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguMt2jhUuwm5L0qoyLyYjOnMZrOLBHl10g0mzbghqd3g_ICqm7BnPyL3MrxQMVYf_kZwA_3AJAhCHe2-RwdO9AfT7RLbfUjFrfPKwfB33RTs-5nJMczSiY4ZGEbs-zTfXBdmWyCfktoipz/s320/IMG_9983.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671927625130013186" /></a></div><div>Tasnim made the 'Duchamp like' readymade that she claimed as her own work and insisted to hang it on the wall as one of her choices. During the party I explained to the parents ideas behind that type of work.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSl7XY2FhJzJFWokgktlzZCri9b6sTv2v29ZN7CEUfiBQ4Dq7eFppjq_0o92kw3q1Opk95O1SV0wt6un72y_EThMNVCH-O9VNjKt4dBF9knN15VMfvF_cBc2T0U_NJoZtubvxoKiQQoZOC/s1600/IMG_9978.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSl7XY2FhJzJFWokgktlzZCri9b6sTv2v29ZN7CEUfiBQ4Dq7eFppjq_0o92kw3q1Opk95O1SV0wt6un72y_EThMNVCH-O9VNjKt4dBF9knN15VMfvF_cBc2T0U_NJoZtubvxoKiQQoZOC/s320/IMG_9978.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671926541624904402" /></a>Salman's experiments with linocuts.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAcpj7vssGGoAs32KDclWMZhF3MRXFMVHdFJrn7GsWfYUJy0EO5t6-bYY6OCRKO0nTkMsfXimVKM3XMNDgTCb1mOAlOjkMTGhVv6Ftw4D9bUtfs6bcIrIsMT2ZlXrP1jnP7ngfPiaRabTR/s1600/IMG_9977.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAcpj7vssGGoAs32KDclWMZhF3MRXFMVHdFJrn7GsWfYUJy0EO5t6-bYY6OCRKO0nTkMsfXimVKM3XMNDgTCb1mOAlOjkMTGhVv6Ftw4D9bUtfs6bcIrIsMT2ZlXrP1jnP7ngfPiaRabTR/s320/IMG_9977.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671926540483865794" /></a></div><div>Collaborative installation. We talked about what the word ' collaboration' means in terms of art practise.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_D5mm-VJXNde-bGc7Zf8xwdDhAxm5lAtuLkfJKEfmWhx8L9h6-k2SytWP1PncYN5RpPaigv2i954NGED8S5QUtg5SJKOdTwWxEa56mnuunI-YIXIAV9CqYbS3MjCDAnJlUNrFcXUhc2yC/s1600/IMG_9973.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_D5mm-VJXNde-bGc7Zf8xwdDhAxm5lAtuLkfJKEfmWhx8L9h6-k2SytWP1PncYN5RpPaigv2i954NGED8S5QUtg5SJKOdTwWxEa56mnuunI-YIXIAV9CqYbS3MjCDAnJlUNrFcXUhc2yC/s320/IMG_9973.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671926539059129714" /></a>"Dead Man In An Ice Cube ' by Ashrraf </div><div>(washers and aluminium)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nHFXfz4UPH1Lsj-9FJRHQsPgGAQd4Xj_nrc8LxqpQZJeMb-dyK-YMKa2dw-YkDo8or8wwBT36sA3A49LKq-iduIKzTYQK6isu9WLyDSn_HMZhSCvgiBnL2iByUZSnL-myfLJgvOeMw2w/s1600/IMG_9957.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 181px; " /></a><div>Ashrraf made a bench for people to seat during performances.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-72684599142332942962011-11-06T16:43:00.002+00:002011-11-06T16:49:56.479+00:00<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Children that live next door from me are performing in a play titled<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">Ratatotu Girls And Boys 'Rool' - Welcome! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Here are fragments of their performance:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ff0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/31681339?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-54012226445823491442011-11-06T16:14:00.008+00:002011-11-06T16:43:30.179+00:00Images and a short video from the 3rd <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ff0000;"> <i>PARTY for the neighbours</i></span> event that took place at my flat on the Leopold Estate.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/31681848?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzdIh4opIxXsw86Lm3v6cUJA_g6tFmSMWsmmYPKSg22cQGJLWtQbB6CophyaUNJ9Ihs5WtPYM2hQ0HL5DWFSEkU2piOZVOEfQMqykT89ybUrmgEcmtmfYU3EXy_i2xeA5y53E-aHe0fezU/s1600/IMG_9785.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFFLEKWkklewKJi59Y0DD0ss9jznW5OLKjnltcdxWCHucS8NdxcFZDDl0sgJoKWDXSM_chFBJCzTFUrb4N913n3wCYsLjvOZDtjJN7hxXNJ8rkr07eqJ0z0IsMLCiLEFj6eHOw5pGPyso/s320/IMG_8081.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671917535353466514" /></a><br /><br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-55978495136280246822011-10-30T00:12:00.002+01:002011-10-30T00:46:00.675+01:00After midnight. Ludo and Andre are rehearsing downstairs. They will present their play to the neighbours and other invited / passing by people tomorrow. Next door Poppy is still making samosas... It was a beautiful day with an amazing energy in the air. When I woke up this morning it felt a bit hard - another busy day ahead, but now after seing excitiment of the children and after all the help from one of the mums and older girls I feel... I had to stop as it's difficult to describe how I feel... it's something in between being satisfied, feeling peaceful and secure. <div><div><br /></div><div>We are going to show a lot of work made by children. Titles are incredible! Ashraf called his sculpture " A Dead Man In An Ice Cube", Tasnim painted "Messy Painting"...</div></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-64923610431438284442011-10-29T12:12:00.002+01:002011-10-29T12:22:27.578+01:00<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />Tomorrow we are having another PARTY For The Neighbours. Again, lot's of people on my floor is involved in preparation of it.<div><br /></div><div>We are cooking Bengali food with different families then last time. Kids prepared a puppet show. My flatmate Ludo and his friend Andre will present "The Stone Cutter" - a shadow play. Catharina ( another flatmate of mine) will do face painting together with two boys that live on my flor - Salman and Ashraf.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kids are making halloween decorations. Boys are making a bench for guest to sit.</div><div><br /></div><div>There will also be an exhibition of the work made by children.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today a list of requirements arrived:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8TVMatzfgWpXkSTN9TGjCQCwwXO2Li3KMcbusjWZ7dLuF13T-6ezJ1YQWyzcM_aBW43W5N6y-0n4EanJojCbV9pGn2NhH0BWj4Ld9lJFsWYRzLkgCz6lFd-IOmob1CZaYgoXTz6rO4Rt/s1600/+partyrequirementskids" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8TVMatzfgWpXkSTN9TGjCQCwwXO2Li3KMcbusjWZ7dLuF13T-6ezJ1YQWyzcM_aBW43W5N6y-0n4EanJojCbV9pGn2NhH0BWj4Ld9lJFsWYRzLkgCz6lFd-IOmob1CZaYgoXTz6rO4Rt/s320/+partyrequirementskids" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668872814069242306" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-31704536692369578962011-10-16T23:23:00.003+01:002011-10-16T23:55:20.892+01:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdKnpJ2o0LGT7b31OQRQQxAFz4YMR5tsX-sdeTdzwuTXN_fJFKRWzEu50G96A3kCF4jX4t-ZNDtZFITlzhevQR4K5Mr5zELnqpqI3rc16wVbCXlp6Poyvu21cdPMSi3YwjvRTw8LAxaQv/s1600/hearth.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdKnpJ2o0LGT7b31OQRQQxAFz4YMR5tsX-sdeTdzwuTXN_fJFKRWzEu50G96A3kCF4jX4t-ZNDtZFITlzhevQR4K5Mr5zELnqpqI3rc16wVbCXlp6Poyvu21cdPMSi3YwjvRTw8LAxaQv/s320/hearth.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664225180320429026" /></a><br />I now have regular workshops with children, which happen every Saturday or Sunday. I mostly work with 7 of them, but sometimes group is as big as 15. This is usually when their cousins are around and they join in. Their mothers are visiting my flat during our art classes, often commenting on the work or giving advise to children. We all work towards another 'party for the neighbours' day (in two weeks time) making different types of puppets, building theatre stage and writing stories. We also collect footage for the film and paint a lot. Sometimes we play music. <div><br /></div><div>Today I went to an art shop and brought lot's of clay, canvas and few other things that we haven't used before. We tend to experiment a lot, so children can get used to various types of materials and learn new ways of assembling them. We also started analysing work that is being made. I keep asking questions about the colours they used or the choice of material etc .... When they feel like they'd made a bad work we try to find other way of looking at it or a way to improve it. It's important that they don't see moments like that as final or as failure, but rather as a temporary problem that can be solved.</div><div><br /></div><div>On other days my doors are open to a little bit older neighbours. We write CVs and part-time job applications. We talk about the importance of education, especially once they still have it free.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today I thought that it would be great to involve mothers in running other art classes. One of the mums can do pottery and it would be amazing if she run workshop on it. </div><div><br /></div><div>I decided to spend the next few months on looking for a funding. Let's see how it goes. </div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-54717437260964649572011-10-08T17:57:00.002+01:002011-10-08T18:24:12.962+01:00Today we were making a stage for a puppet performance that will happen in a few weeks time. During our workshop one of the girls said that we have to vote for the best title of the show. She collected proposed ideas from everyone. She said that all of us should vote as otherwise it would not be a democratically made decision. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwqnjg3u7PZU475z8KIsF0rBvVF6aYqWVGGayFS7JX0QgPKXlaPrBfSY0GoZF-QtM_N3AjqZ7bb1Z14_UL4EXXVcNho_sx1Wv9jWg7gQ_8N29VMKy5jAQpHA5Xsw44vyR6pq7OF8D1aczv/s320/IMG_7986.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661167396440381810" /></a><br /></div></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-65164937938873348592011-09-24T23:02:00.002+01:002011-09-24T23:02:32.460+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">While writing job applications with my neighbour we got stuck when it came to defining her ethnic origin/nationality...non of the available options was accurate and ticking "other" felt like admitting to be "the other" which didn't necessarily feel good. </span>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-51741280577851780632011-09-23T12:22:00.001+01:002011-09-23T12:24:20.217+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; ">...art as the means by which a community develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation</span>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-91536915816081057712011-09-06T02:03:00.002+01:002011-09-06T02:09:34.178+01:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Girl explaining the position of the film frame to younger kids in both Bengali and English.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<br /></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1028880546633253646.post-68898361990655768542011-09-06T00:49:00.002+01:002011-09-06T00:55:48.233+01:00our first puppets and our own hands<div>
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<br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNeAuG3V-R9OJbd1dOGuoV7B-VfqipfCzDlwCP3mNtWJmrXA_e-LYpKfbiaYBhrE_8j6oe7kqV7GJrc5eGA_es_vUOn1IE39QNzoKEG2Tzw6BzJtHGdKVNTsMV-c5mOGoN7Ga3saGbCVdF/s1600/IMG_9075lowres.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>I just read few of my previous posts and realised that a lot has changed since then. Making plans doesn't make sense as every time I plan for something to happen it doesn't work that way, and sometimes things happen in most unpredictable moments. Like today, children knocked to my door with a box of pencils in their hands saying that there mum was tiding up, so they decided to draw at my place. <div>
<br /></div><div>We have been working quite a lot last week, recording stories, conversations and making puppets. We also started filming them and now it's time for first edits. I'm still quite careful with using cameras, but it seems like none of the adults around has a problem with it. We had a chat about different equipment with one of the dads. Boys filmed an elderly man passing by and he just smiled saying "hello". </div><div>
<br /></div><div>We worked a lot outside, on our walkway. It's important for me to make parents feel that they can be a part of it, and working outside makes what we are doing easier to follow by everyone around. Yesterday two mums joined us on the walkway. It seems like some of the parents approve our art workshops more then others, but it's definitely getting better. Kids are getting more and more focused and some of them are experimenting a lot with various forms of creating. They usually come with few ideas of what they want to make and I noticed that they are getting more and more confident in making decisions. I try to not to give them too many ideas, but rather to encourage them to develop their own. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Ashraf asked me yesterday if they were part of my project. </div><div>
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