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Schramberg - Childrenpaintprojekt
Painting workshop Mini-Schramberg, Germany, 2000,
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Painting workshop 2000
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The big play project "Mini-Schramberg 2000 - We take our future into our own hands" ran from 31 July - 6 August 2000. As many as 500 children of different nationalities, aged 6 to 13, took part. Using dispersion paints, a big cloth painting measuring 9 metres by 6.50 metres was created and put up on the front of Schramberg town hall. The topic had been taken from Agenda 21: "What in this world I consider worth preserving for the future". During the workshop 12 jobs were available for mural painters. A picture with many different colours was painted onto a huge piece of cloth, measuring 9 x 6,50 meter. The painted cloth was then hanged on the front wall of the main city hall of Schramberg.
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The subject of the picture emerged from the Agenda 21: "What in this world is of importance to me that I will preserve for the future?"
The workshop was facilitated by Brigitte Landgrebe. Day by day other teams of children engaged in mural painting. They painted different motives, e.g. the jungle, flowers, rainbow, clowns, island, ocean, halfpipe, sun and heart (as symbols for warmth and friendship), different animals, pizza and many more. Clustered together, the symbols formed a positive and optimistic picture. In the top part of the mural a white dove flies along. It sybolises peace, because without peace nothing can exist.
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It was very special during the painting that pedestrians watched the mural growing while the cloth got pulled up to approximately 1.5 meters every day. Residents were fascinated and passed positive comments about it. Hence, the mayor decided to keep it for a few weeks on his city hall. During a city festival on 10. September 2000 it will then be taken to another place within the city centre and it was suggested to present the cloth to the children's summit on 30. Septembre and 03. October 2000 during the EXPO in Hannover.
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