As the UNESCO’s global movement, ResiliArt, reaches Wales, the first session will be facilitated by Catherine Paskell from Dirty Protest on 22 July 2020.
Dirty Protest are currently collaborators on Building the Barricades, an action research project led by People’s Palace Projects in Rio De Janeiro. The research seeks to bring new understanding about the mental health and wellbeing of people living within a community subject to multiple stress factors such as socio-economic exclusion, high levels of violence, limited access to cultural networks and institutions, where daily lives are circumscribed by multi-faceted armed regulation and combat resulting from the so-called ‘war on drugs’.
The project has grown to include 6 young artists and a network of people who use crack in the open favela spaces, who are using writing, music and performing arts to build their resilience against multiple stress factors such as structural social and racial inequality, State violence and negligence and COVID-19.
We’re pleased to share some of their work here.
1.Jonathan Panta & MC Martina
2.Matheus Araújo & Rodrigo Maré
3.Thainá Iná – Construindo Pontes
4.Thais Ayomidé – Pequenoriki