Sculpture in Beirut
Sculpture in Beirut..
is a course taught by a variety of skilled and experienced international tutors delivered to young teenagers in the Ras Beirut district. Our aims are to offer people the fulfilment of realising an artistic outcome.
Art teaches ...
Problem Solving. Making art teaches that there is more than one solution to the same problem. Art challenges our beliefs and encourages open-ended thinking that creates an environment of questions rather than answers.
Art Builds Community.
Art reaches across racial stereotypes, religious barriers, and socio-economical levels and prejudices. Seeing other culture’s creative expression allows everyone to be more connected and less isolated – “see how we are all related.” Art creates a sense of belonging.
2013
Our proposal builds on our work to date. In April 2013, after two years of planning, we organised a self-funded, fact-finding trip to Beirut, Lebanon to work with young people from refugee camps. Our success was reliant on existing relationships with contacts in Beirut, namely Hatem Imam, an artist himself but also co-founder ofSamandal Comics Association (NGO registered 1509) and part-time lecturer at the department of Architecture and Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut.
2013 was entirely self-funded we documented our project which recorded a busy week of workshops and verbal feedback from camp organisers expressed how much the young people enjoyed themselves. Over the week not only did we work with vulnerable young people from the refugee camp but also the local public and children playing in the park.
SCULPTURE FOR LIFE