“Home, swede home” Video Lab at RFSL

Under hösten 2014 hade vi ett mindre pilotprojekt med videolab för Newcomers (https://www.facebook.com/artlabforall) i samarbete med Art Lab for All och RFSL. I det deltog 15 hbtq- personer från RFSL Newcomers (asylsökande) under 8 sessioner, 2 timmar per session. Projektet kallades “Home, swede home” . Det resulterade i 10 berättelser, där varje individ haft möjlighet att göra en berättelse om sitt liv sen de anlände till Sverige genom fotografi.

Processen inleddes med en diskussion om temat och storyboard, som ett pedagogiskt sätt att strukturera de personliga berättelserna. Deltagarna valde 10 fotografiska scener och gjorde en berättelse baserad på storyboarden. Berättelsen dokumenterades på video. Deltagarna samarbetade med varandra och alla bidrog till det slutgiltiga resultatet. Deltagarna använde verktyg som de lärnt sig under processen, för att göra sina röster hörda och öka sin synlighet.

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Genom berättande av sitt förflutna, nutid och framtid uttrycktes orättvisor och förtryck fråm deltagarnas hemländer runt om i världen, främst på grund av sin sexuella läggning, och även svårigheter under asylprocessen i Sverige.

Alla deltog aktivt och kreativt i strukturerandet av de personliga berättelserna. Alla inblandade hjälpte varandra och därigenom stärktes relationerna inom gruppen. Tolerans och demokrati dominerade varje aktivitet. Resultaten är baserat på processen och en konkret visuellt format. Deltagarna har undersökt olika sätt att kommunicera verktyg och att hitta sina personliga uttryck när gruppen hjälper varandra.

Workshops är framtagna av konstnären och konstpedagogen Liz K. Peñuela som har 8 års erfarenhet som koordinator av kreativa projekt för barn, ungdomar och vuxna. Hon tror på den konstnärliga och kreativa potentialen hos varje enskild individ på jorden.

Performance lab at RFSL Stockholm

The principal tool is the body. We developed different activities in collaboration with Interfem and RFSL both organizations from Stockholm.  The aim of this Performance lab was to care our bodies, to strength them, to know our capabilities for interaction and  create environments of acceptance and inclusion. The wonderful group was a diverse group of asylum seekers and newcomers.

The diversity of movements, rhythms, reflections, ways to keep calm through dance, yoga, relaxation, or a lovely meeting are some of the methodologies for this PerformanceLab. 

My health, my rights! Lab at RFSL

Art Lab for All collaborated with the project “My Health, My Rights,” developed by Interfem in 2015. The workshops were conducted with a newcomers’ group at RFSL. This winter, Art Lab for All’s creative workshops focused on themes of equality, justice, and inclusion from the perspective of asylum seekers within the LGBTQ+ community

We have a variety of formats in the workshops, the theater pieces, the drawings, the radio channel, the poems and narrations from a diverse group that have a lot of necesities and unequal treatment when we talked about health in Sweden. The project is going to do a publication to help newcommers in the same situations or similar.

Video lab screening at RFSL

The end of the Video lab have came, on 31st of October 2014, we have done a screening show at RFSL in Stockholm. Most of the participants were presents and they could seen their own stories on video. That was a fantastic night to encorage all the group to participate in more coming workshops at RFSL

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Video Lab have produce his own space of knoledge, collaboration, creativity, socialization and interaction between the group. Art lab Can’t wait to 2015 and bring more creative wokshops to RFSL, and overall to the great Newcomers group! 

Big thanks to all of you that were interested in follow all the 8 sessions of Video lab. Hurra!

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We are at Brunkebergstorg

This will be our last chance outdoors at Guringo Project to develop -We are- workshop where families can come and share a little more about their own role at the family and through the sculpture to confirm wich is to be a family on this days!

Come to the guringo project at Brunkebergstorg were they have some music and food to have grate time at the park.

Age: All family

When: 27 th september 2014

Hours: 13:00 am – 15:00 pm.

Place: Brunkebergstorg at back of Sergelstorg.

Language:  Spanish, english & swedish

 

More info here: We are workshop at Brunkebergstorg event on facebook

 

Brunkeberbgstorg by Guringo project 2014

 

 

 

 

 

Botanical expedition at Brunkebergstorg

Art lab for all has been at Brunkebergstorg 2014 at Guringo’s project. The project is a combined urban development- and art project stretching over the period of July-September 2014 and is set to be a creative starting point of a new development phase for this part of Stockholm. Art lab for all had the opportunity this weekend to share space with the bike festival and the Green party. It was great to see so many families drop in to the Botanical expedition to reflect on our urban parks and the nature of our city. We got fantastic feedback from kids and parents alike.

 

http://www.guringo.com/project/brunkebergstorg-2014/

Video Lab for Newcomers (Solidaritetshuset)

This lab is oriented for all of those who wants to have the possibility to use Video as a tool to clarify thinking processes and communicate individually or in a group an idea. We will create and experiment with image and sound.

Next Dates of video lab sessions 2014:

Wednesday 20th of  august (Solidaritetshuset)

Wednesday 27th of august (Outside session)

Wednesday 10th of september (RFSL) .

Age: From 18 years old.

Time: 18:00 to 20:00.

Group: Max. 12 persons.

Language: English, Spanish, Swedish.

Cost: Free sessions.

Drawing lab

This lab is oriented for all of those who wants to have the possibility to use drawing as a tool to clarify thinking processes and communicate individually or in a group an idea.

Next Dates of Drawing lab sessions 2014

Tuesday 19th of  august (Solidaritetshuset)

Tuesday 26th of august (Outside session)

Tuesday 9th september (Solidaritetshuset)

Age: From 18 years old

Time: 18:00 to 20:00.

Group: Max. 12 persons.

Language: English, Spanish, Swedish.

Cost: free entry

More infoclick here:

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Labs at the Solidarity House in Stockholm

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The Labs are those spaces where we can interchange all kind of perspectives depending of the theme  for example drawing lab, or video lab where we can develop activities to tell stories or express ideas about live limited by the theme proposed and technic.

Age:    From 18 years old.

When: 12th- 13th and 15th August.

Group: Max. 12 persons per group.

Hours: 18:00 pm – 20:00 pm.

Place:   Solidaritetshuset.

Language: spanish, english & swedish