Occupational art workshops in Subotica

28. Sep 2022.

Occupational workshops have been held in the Reception center in Subotica since August as part of the project "Humanitarian Assistance and Protection Related Interventions to People on the Move in Serbia".

When the weather permits, occupation workshops take place in Subotica in which music, dance, drawing and making small objects are intertwined. Within them, Ivana (leader) and Tatjana (assistant): animate, guide, teach, support, console and motivate the users of the Reception Center. These healing sessions take place in an open space. Let's place the carpet and the chairs and thus mark the place where, as with Peter Brook, art will take place, the exchange between those who create and those who observe. And it is created according to themes that emerge from the process: the need for happiness, for the journey to the desired destination, images from the homeland, the search for identity, vision of the future, life in motion... We dance to the rhythm of Arabic, Punjabi, Pashto, Urdu, Kurdish, English, Serbian with a lot of non-verbal language. Glad that it is possible, when we all want it.

The workshops are led by Ivana Inđin, a multimedia artist and art and drama therapist, with the assistance of Tatjana Marticki, a master visual artist.

The project is financed by HEKS/EPER, Switzerland