Amenge means “for us” in the Romani language.
This is another very special project for us because we carried it out in a key location – the Community Center “Stoyanka Sokolova 1999” in the Fakulteta neighborhood. For years, the community center has been one of the few places in the area that offers opportunities for children to learn and grow.
Once again, we used the power of art and, after a series of workshops with the children and the artist JahOne, we managed to transform the community center in a way never before seen in the neighborhood.
The mural we created interweaves stories and symbols significant to the children and the community center. You can learn more about them from the video.
We put our whole ilo (“soul”) into it and witnessed how the mural successfully came to life in the neighborhood. During the painting process, many people of different ages shared that they were happy to see this change, that they wanted more such initiatives, and that the mural “speaks” to them.
At the final event, we presented the results and the process we went through, aiming to promote our model of socially engaged art and to encourage its future implementation by other people and organizations.
Artist: JahOne
Videographer: Georgi Kozhuharov
Photographer: Emil Metodiev
“Amenge” is a project by Meeting Points, carried out in partnership with the Community Center “Stoyanka Sokolova 1999” and Visionary. With the financial support of the National Culture Fund, Bulgaria, program Socially Engaged Arts. Also supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Bulgaria.
