Water Writes will travel to ten cities around the planet over the next year creating original murals that will express the perspectives of communities highly affected by water issues. The campaign aims to educate and empower communities to express their voice visually through public art.
The Estria Foundation takes a community building approach to the creation of the Water Writes mural series. In Oakland, the Foundation partnered with local organizations that work with community youth to host a series of workshops on their relationship to water. While the water crisis is global, each community struggles with their own issues and has their own perspective, and the workshops are a vehicle for these impacted communities to constructively and artistically tell, or write their stories. Working side by side, artists and youth came up with a storyboard depicting their local to global visions of water. The public paint party will mobilize over 100 community members to bring the mural to life, each person painting a part of their own story with their own hands.
Confirmed Sites:
- Los Angeles, CA - Completed
- Oakland, CA - Completed
- Honolulu, HI - June 2011
- Gaza Strip, Palestine - July 2011
- Palawan, Philippines, July 2011
- El Salvador, August, 2011
- Window Rock Arizona- September 2011
- Bogota, Colombia - October 2011
- Klamath River, Northern CA - November 2011
- Suprise……………..
Thursday, May 19 @ 4:00pm - 7:00pm | |
Parking Lot @ 21st & Broadway. Oakland, Ca | |
DJ Agana. DJ Baby Tiger. DJ Mixtek. BRWN BFLO. HOPIE. Arts and Crafts with Recycled Materials. Photo Booth with finished Mural. Performers and lots of Love. Free Event! All Ages! If you post on Twitter, please use #WaterWrites Feel free to add your photos to our Flickr #WaterWrites group: http://www.flickr.com/grou | |
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