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Arts Lab 4.0: Month IV, Fatma Mohamed Ibrahim Mahmoud - Journey

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It's already been four months and almost a month and a half to go, I can't believe the time has gone by so fast. We started working right after Christmas on the Rroma exhibition, this exhibition gave me the chance to meet and learn more about the Rroma community, their history, culture and where they started their journey in the world. This time I cooperated with my friend, Wasan, to do the workshop together, and the result was a video about how the students see the Rroma culture. About my personal project I made a video called "ترحال" "Tirhal", the meaning in English is "Journey". It is about the struggles faced by the Rroma while trying to integrate into society or to show who they really are. It's about how they lost their identity while trying to hide because of society's pressure on them. Now we have started working on our last exhibition here, it is the Jewish memorial museum. I look forward to knowing more about what happened to them

Arts Lab 4.0: Month V, Yavuzhan Gumus - Giving the best

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After spending some time in Romania, I visited Turkey. When I returned, this month's topic was Rroma culture. Although I couldn't spend time with the students at school, I managed to create two art products related to the subject. I learned historical and cultural information about the Rroma and discovered new songs. Although the process was good for me, it was also painful because I am dealing with toothache. During this month, I thought about what I learned in this project until now: I improved my English, I did some workshops. Most of the things I learned were thanks to the people I met. Also I realized that I’m so closed to the sixth month project.  Some moments were difficult but I really enjoyed the project until now and I’m proud of what we did. I hope that the last exhibition (Jewish museum) will be the best one.  In the next weeks in Romania I want to give the best I can in this project other than having fun with my friends.  Yavuzhan Gumus is from Turkey and he

Arts Lab 4.0: Month V, Sara Torrijos - A complex experience

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In my first day of the fifth month I was in Cluj celebrating the new year with Federica, Chiara, Maja, Wasan, Ataota and other friends. It was really nice to visit Cluj, I really like the canal that cross the city and also seeing the Christmas decoration at night. It was really nice to spend time with my friends, getting warm with the typical spicy hot wine that are served in the Christmas market, enjoying street concerts and discovering the old city centre. When we arrived at home, in Târgu Frumos, I was really excited to see my cat, Tormenta. I was far from her for more than two weeks and I really missed her. She was good, only she lost a little weight from the stress of being away from me, but now is okay, totally perfect. Almost without realizing it, we started to prepare the next topic “Rroma Alternative Museum”. For this occasion, Chiara and I decided to collaborate and create a complex experience through the emotions with labs inspiring from magic, theater and emotional intellig

Arts Lab 4.0: Month V, Federica Colzani - My favorite one

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My fifth month in Romania started with the celebration of the new year in Cluj. We spent time together and we visited a beautiful city with a wonderful Christmas atmosphere.  After the trip we started to develop the Rroma Alternative museum: my purpose was to give value to Rroma artists that are too often marginalized. My students gave their interpretations of Rroma poems, paintings, sculptures, clothes and music using paintings and clay. Together with the canvas that I painted, this drawings took part in "Witch hunt" a small installation inspired by the work of the Rroma artist La Bas.  The topic was not easy because I really think that when you have to speak for a minority to which you don't belong,  you have to take a step back and listen them more than sharing your point of view. The final Rroma exhibition was my favorite one: I enjoyed the work from the beginning and having more time, gave me the chance to think more, connect more with the students, try more things a

Voluntar în Europa - după 12 luni în Finlanda

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Dacă m-ar întreba cineva care a fost cel mai frumos moment trăit de mine, anul acesta, în Finlanda... n-aș ști să zic, pentru că au fost prea multe. Ce știu sigur să zic este că am avut cea mai frumoasă experiență de până acum! Helsinki nu a fost atât de rece precum mi-erau fricile. Desigur, uneori abia puteam ieși din casă din cauza nămeților, la -10 grade, însă ce a înseninat cu adevărat zilele a fost motivația de a descoperi și a crea amintiri. După un an plin de activități, sunt recunoscătoare pentru această oportunitate care m-a învățat mult mai multe decât m-am așteptat înainte să plec de acasă. Eram convinsă că voi învăța foarte multe lucruri noi, dar în final sunt surprinsă de toate experiențele la care nu m-aș fi așteptat niciodată. Am legat prietenii, am descoperit stiluri noi de viață, mi-am dat seama că lumea este atât de diversă și diferită, încât nu pot trăi cu aceleași idei și păreri, ci ar trebui să accept schimbarea și să îmbrățișez necunoscutul. Despre mine cunosc mul

Muzeul Memorial Evreiesc în aer liber - JEMOM

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Muzeul Memorial Evreiesc în aer liber din Târgu Frumos este o modalitate de a prezenta compasiunea noastră față de comunitatea evreiască și de a ne exprima regretele pentru Holocaustul românesc. Dorim să construim o punte între trecut și viitor, să reînviem legătura dintre localnici și descendenții evreilor care au trăit pe aceste meleaguri.   Context   Târgu Frumos era menționat în documente vechi drept „micul oraș evreiesc”. În zilele noastre, ultima moștenire a acestei legături puternice este un cimitir abandonat, care ne aduce aminte de oamenii care gestionau 90% din comerțul și meșteșugurile orașului, de trenul morții în care mii de oameni au fost uciși într-un mod îngrozitor, și de istoria de sute de ani a evreilor în Târgu Frumos. Cimitirul Evreiesc este o proprietate de 4 hectare în care există peste 5000 de pietre memoriale ale celor care au locuit la Târgu Frumos înainte de război. În colțul opus al cimitirului este amplasat un monument care comemorează victimele Trenului Mor