Being Human Festival
METRONOME, 8 Crown Ln, Morden, SM4 5BL
7–16 November 2024, Free Entry
(Past event, took place in November 2024, London, UK)
Exhibition extended till 24th November! This exhibition is part of the national UK “Being Human” festival of the humanities (7-16 Nov) which aims to demonstrate the value of humanities research to society. This year’s festival theme is “Landmarks”. In our exhibition, we celebrate the birth of our young facilitators, a generation born after 1994, as the landmark event that signifies hope for building a new future. Please see the virtual version of the exhibition below.
Arts for Resilience
The Exhibition
The exhibition is organised into four sections:
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Resilience and Connections
Artwork from the Nkwihoreze artists inspired by the themes and findings from the project
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Connecting conntinents through art
Young artists in Merton connect with the project by drawing portraits from baby photos of our Nkwihoreze facilitators and reflecting on the themes of trauma and resilience
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Photography by Fernando Mugisha
See our young facilitators in action while delivering workshops to children and young people
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Interactive features
We invited exhibition visitors to contribute their own thoughts and reflections by adding a leaf to our resilience tree or writing a postcard to our young facilitators in Rwanda
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Resilience and Connections
Human resilience through pain
This artwork is a metaphor of human suffering, capturing the weight of painful thoughts, intense emotions, physical aches, and broken hearts endured after hardship. Created by Chaste and painted by Sandra, it symbolizes the depth of human pain and the enduring strength that arises from facing and moving through it.
