Asociația SUPER TINERI (ASIRYS)

To be honest, I didn't even realize how the second month went by. It feels like it's gone by in the blink of an eye, and we haven't done too much. But when I checked my gallery to see what happened, I saw that we did a lot actually, including an exhibition.  Well, the month started with a big workshop organization. But the interesting part, it was not in the school, it was in our house! In the beginning, it was not a really good idea for me to host more than 50 kids in the house, but finally, it went well because the kids were really kind and excited. This time we tried something different with Raphaelle. We decided to do something that kids really love: face painting! We gave them a lot of paints and set them free. They painted us, we painted them, they painted each other. At the end of the day, everyone was decorated with folklore patterns somehow. But the most important part, everyone had a lot of fun! And at the end of the day, something happened. While sharing our feel

To be completely honest, I am writing this report very late. First thing to notice: It's getting colder now, so we finally winning the battle against flies in our home! I am teaching beading classes at a local school. I have the youngest students, all of whom are girls. I really enjoy teaching them, and I mean that with all my heart. Of course, some of them are not very interested, and one girl left the lesson in the end, but I am not upset at all. This is a good opportunity to learn how to teach. By the way, don't they drink black tea in Romania? I saw herbal teas on the shelves and only two kinds of black tea. It's really strange for me because, in Ukraine, I always have a choice of 6+ varieties of black tea from different brands and flavors. Immediately, the girls saw me drinking black tea in the WhatsApp group and started asking me what it was. I even took a couple of screenshots of such comments like "Tomorrow I'm going with my mother to buy black tea." S

Hello again! Welcome to my second-month report. This month, we finally had our first alternative museum of Romanian folklore, and it was very exciting to host the first exhibition. I think that I also learned to coordinate my projects and time better since I had lots of ideas and maybe planned to do too much, which made me feel really stressed before the exhibition. It was really nice to see lots of familiar faces at our art exhibition, and I felt very happy to see people enjoy my personal interactive artwork, which was the Romanian folklore card game. It was so great to see them play and have fun and to already see people memorizing and learning more about Romanian embroidery while playing. My second personal artwork was also my photography about Romanian folklore, which I had taken in my first month. The visitors of the art exhibition had to go around and collect a word from each volunteer which had something to do with Romanian folklore. I had the word "community" since ga

This is the second month in this project and it’s almost scary how I don’t want the time to pass by. After the first exhibition for the Alternative Museum of Folklore, it felt surreal how we managed to do everything on time. I saw everyone stressed and working day and night to make the project possible, so I hope people enjoyed the moment. I feel a bit exhausted but overall inspired since the second theme for the Alternative Museum is Cucuteni. We started our second residency that I did in collaboration with Dajana and honestly, we had a lot of good times. We combined natural arts made with elements like stones and sticks to paint them with Cucuteni Symbols. We unified all the painted and created elements to form a décor for a short film that will be focused visually on the archetypes of menstrual cycle and fertility which was so venerated in Cucuteni Culture.  Working with Dajana was very fun. We were already close before, but after passing some stressing moments, maybe disagreements

This month has gone by very fast, it doesn’t seem like long ago I was writing the first monthly report. Since the folkloric exhibition in our home we have begun the Cucuteni Alternative museum project, starting with an artist residency in another local school.  The group of children, Hajer and I had in our workshop team, were really amazing to work with, I enjoyed the residency very much and looked forward to going to the school each day! The children were very passionate and enthusiastic about learning crafts. We baked bread with them in the classroom, and along with Violeta made clay bowls, created dresses decorated with Cucuteni symbols and learnt print making techniques during the 6 days spent at the school. The experience had a very positive impact on me and the children’s energy was very refreshing and positive. I will be glad if they can come and see their hard work in the Cucuteni final exhibition.  As well as the work we are doing for the project I have become even closer with

Salut! I'm having a great time here in Târgu Frumos! I've been spending wonderful moments with my friends, making lots of memories. It's been my second month here, and it's been incredible to see the results of my hard work paying off both personally and professionally. The month started with completing a major project, a mural at Petru Rareș Highschool. It was a challenging and stressful project that took more time than expected. Although I'm always seeking perfection, everyone else loved the result, and I'm happy with it too. One of the good moments during this month was making a small surprise for Mihaela's birthday, although we celebrated it two days later. We went to a hill where we could see the entire Târgu Frumos and had a photo session for the catalog. We had the opportunity to host around 50 students from Iași and conducted workshops with them. It was an incredible experience, as they were lovely and most of them spoke English,  so we connected. I&