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Afghan women matter: Art exhibition in Chalkida

ART WORKS made by refugee young women living in the Camp Ritsona, are exhibited in the Town hall of the city of Chalkida.
You can contact Fariba and Fershta Amiri through our Email: lesvos.w2eu[at]yahoo.gr.

. .when it’s about violance i close my eyes and think about injustice to keep a strong painting and sometimes when i’m thinking about past life, my images tell me, to keep alive everything that bother me through paintings.

Fareshta

Art exhibition in Chalkida
Although the young people finally are aloud to join the Greek school in Chalkida, there is no bus or other transport for them to get over the 20 kilometers distance between the camp and the city of Chalkida. So they unfortunately, although they have the right to go to school, are obliged to stay in the camp.

I have different plans and dreams about my future, definitely. One of them is to become the best football player, as I am right a player right now. And beside of that to improve my art and continue my lessons


Fariba

Fariba Amiri and Fereshte Amiri will show their Art in the exhibition. Find Faribas Art-Gallery here and Fereshtas Art-Gallery here.
Painting, drawing, writing poems and other creative ways are their expression of their feelings and the comments of their situation.
We wish all of them to be fast part of the Greek society and live among the Greek people or enjoy their freedom of movement.
They should follow their art, that from now on, is traveling around the world not being stopped by any kind of borders or walls.

…my images tell me, to keep alive….

Fareshta

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When it’s about violance i close my eyes …

Fariba Amiri is showing her Painting in the Art-Exhibition in Chalkida “Afghan women matter” in Chalkida this weekend.
You can contact Fariba and Fershta Amiri through our Email: lesvos.w2eu[at]yahoo.gr.
Hi
i am Ferehsta Amiri 16 years old from Afghanistan. It has been 2 years that i am living in Greece inside of the camp. Two months ago after a long time we could arrange this opportunity to go to school – with a high motivation unfortunately the school is in Chalkida that is 20 kilometers far from here – Ritsona Camp.
But I hope to have this way of education again as we didn’t have access to expand our knowledge for a long time.
And it is almost 8 months that i have started drawings beside of my lessons. Through this drawing i could picture my reality perspective through paper.

Not only drawings – through writing the texts or poems – i become calm with having nice feelings that i have had.

When i am drawing my paintings it inspires me to make me calm during of drawings ….

Special when it’s about violance i close my eyes and think about injustice to keep a stonge painting and sometimes when i’m thinking about past life my images tell me to keep alive everything that bother me through paintings.

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I have different plans and dreams about my future …

Fariba Amiri is showing her Painting in the Art-Exhibition in Chalkida “Afghan women matter” in Chalkida this weekend.
You can contact Fariba and Fershta Amiri through our Email: lesvos.w2eu[at]yahoo.gr.
Hi, I am Fariba Amiri, 15 years old from Afghanistan living in Greece, Ritsona refugee camp. After spending one and a half year in Greece I am able to go to a school, but the situation about the buses are difficult on all the students in my age. There is no bus for transferring us to school. It is 20 kilometers far from here.
That’s why we haven’t gone to school from when it started untill now. I have started painting 10 months ago and I was doing it mandala art

The painting and drawing give me a calm feelings, my stress goes on doing mandala, and i enjoy during painting about different things.


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Journey back to the borders

short movie: THE OLIVE TREE

by Marily Stroux

Impressed by the olive trees in the groves surrounding Moria hotspot, where she had to live in a tent, 16-year-old refugee girl Parwana Amiri wrote a story and published her first book, THE OLIVE TREE AND THE OLD WOMAN, together with Marily Stroux and the solidarity network, w2eu (“Welcome to Europe”) in Lesvos.
This book is the basis of the film THE OLIVE TREE.

OLIVE english from videofraxia on Vimeo.

Life in the hotspot of Moria as it’s seen through the eyes of the young girl, the various ways refugees use the olive trees, Parwana’s power to become an observer of her own living conditions and share them loudly with the world, are woven into this film together with the everyday stories and the cultural traditions of the local people who live closely with the olive trees, as well as the relentless efforts of all of us in solidarity who want to see the sea between Turkey and Greece become a bridge and not a deadly border.
Films can sometimes become reality.
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Running time: 18 mins
A film made with Drawings, Photos and “home” Videos.
It was created within the online film workshop of the director Vassilis Loules “Making films out of oral stories”.
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Screenplay, Drawings, Direction and Production: by Marily Stroux.
©2021

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short movie: ΤΟ ΕΛΑΙΟΔΕΝΤΡΟ

by Marily Stroux

Υποχρεωμένη να ζήσει σε μια σκηνή μέσα στους ελαιώνες που περιβάλλουν το hotspot της Μόριας, η 16χρονη πρόσφυγας Παρβανά Amiri εντυπωσιάστηκε από τα ελαιόδεντρα, έγραψε μια ιστορία και δημοσίευσε το πρώτο της βιβλίο, ΤΟ ΕΛΑΙΟΔΕΝΤΡΟ ΚΑΙ Η ΓΡΙΟΥΛΑ, με τη συνεργασία της Μαρίλης Στρουξ και την υποστήριξη του δικτύου αλληλεγγύης w2eu (“Καλώς ήλθατε στην Ευρώπη”) στη Λέσβο.
Αυτό το βιβλίο είναι η βάση της ταινίας ΤΟ ΕΛΑΙΟΔΕΝΤΡΟ.

Η ζωή στο hotspot της Μόριας μέσα από τα μάτια της νεαρής κοπέλας, οι διάφοροι τρόποι με τους οποίους οι πρόσφυγες χρησιμοποιούν τα ελαιόδεντρα, η δύναμη της Παρβανά να γίνει παρατηρητής των δικών της συνθηκών διαβίωσης και να τις μοιραστεί δυνατά με τον κόσμο, υφαίνονται σ’ αυτή την ταινία μαζί με τις καθημερινές ιστορίες και τις πολιτιστικές παραδόσεις των ντόπιων που ζουν στενά με τις ελιές, καθώς και με τις αδιάκοπες προσπάθειες όλων όσοι είμαστε σε ομάδες αλληλεγγύης και θέλουμε να δούμε τη θάλασσα μεταξύ Τουρκίας και Ελλάδας να γίνει γέφυρα που ενώνει και όχι σύνορο θανάτου.
Οι ταινίες μπορούν μερικές φορές να γίνουν πραγματικότητα.
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Διάρκεια: 18 λεπτά
Μια ταινία φτιαγμένη με σχέδια, φωτογραφίες και “οικιακά” βίντεο.
Δημιουργήθηκε στο διαδικτυακό εργαστήριο του σκηνοθέτη Βασίλη Λουλέ “Κινηματογραφώντας προφορικές ιστορίες”.
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Σενάριο, Ζωγραφική, Σκηνοθεσία και Παραγωγή: Μαρίλη Στρουξ.
©2021

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