Peacepainting, Integration and Equality
The Peacepainting method has proven to be a very successful method for helping to process, express and communicate people’s inner world. Scientific research on the Peacepainting method has also established that Peacepainting helps foster extraversion, agreeability and other positive social behaviours. With the Peacepainting method, we provide individuals who have had to flee their home countries with tools for expression, and an atmosphere of being taken seriously. Peacepainting has been found to help with bridging gaps and creating a sense of equality for the participants, all of which are very conducive integration.
Workshop Day 2, Alta Integration and Competence Center
On the 14th of June 2022, we held Peacepainting workshops in collaboration with Alta integrerings- og kompetansesenter and Bodø2024 in Alta in the North of Norway as part of a larger project named Peace and Equality in the North. Alta Integration and Competence Center is an institution in Alta which provides education and language courses for people who have recently moved to Norway as refugees.
Exhibition
The refugees’ paintings and messages were lifted during a large exhibition at Alta Museum which was opened on the World Refugee Day, 20th of June 2022. These paintings will also be included in a large exhibition which will take place in Bodø2024.
See paintings with titles below!
Alta Integration and Competence Center, Part 2
I Love You, My Daughter
- By Jasmin Rezai, Alta, Norway
Sunset in Moria
We lived in a tent in the forest.
Also in Moria are
sunsets and the water
colored red by those who did not
arrive.
- By Benjamin Ahmadi, Alta, Norway
Spring In Jaghori
I like nature, summer and green colours.
I love flowers.
- By Tahereh Jafari, Alta, Norway
Liua Flower
In Congo it rains almost every day. That's why we have so many beautiful flowers.
- By Denise Mwavita, Alta, Norway
Light In The Darkness
The stars shine in the sky during the dark times.
- By Ayan Ali, Alta, Norway
Tittel Mangler
- By Aina Alseddig, Alta, Norway
Tittel Mangler
- By Kojile Musa, Alta, Norway
Happy Girl
She lives in Turkey and has mom, dad,
grandma and grandpa with her.
- By Zakiye Yuossef, Alta, Norway
Blandine's Alta
I love to go to church, the sun
and in spices from my homeland.
- By Blandine Nyarushumba, Alta, Norway
Beautiful Flowers
I like flowers.
I have planted flowers at home.
Flowers make me happy.
- By Iman Mousa Haj Mousa, Alta, Norway
My Home Country
I get happy when I see our flag.
- By Alaa Khadija, Alta, Norway