Artist Camila Florez Quintero traveled across the world, from Medellin in Colombia, a country where violence has been producing internally displaced people for years, to bring to Athens her experience with TallerarTe, an initiative of folk art that is used as a way to resist war. With simple materials, like clay, a community center in Colombia uses art as a tool to reach children who have experienced the trauma of conflict and displacement with the view to support a social fabric promoting peace.
With the use of the same material more than 100 refugee children and teenagers, including many parents that got carried away by the creative interaction, were engaged very spontaneously in art workshops that were organized some days ago in Schisto and Elliniko III, with Camila’s help and in cooperation with the Network for Children’s Rights. The workshops are part of everyday activities for children and teenagers, organized by the Network in cooperation with Save the Children and UNHCR, in the frame of Blue Dot Hubs, with the support of the European Commision – Humanitarian Aid.
The young artists created amazing pieces out of clay that captured their dreams as well as what they miss the most: a cup, a plate, a bath tub to take baths. A teenage girl that is dreaming of becoming a doctor even created a DNA helix.
