By Anja Huchthausen | Project Coordinator
Tiempo de Juego Santa Marta has started in Juli 2018 with the project "Grafitis for Social Change" in the community La Lucha. In several activities TDJ involved the community and the kids to promote a peaceful coexistence, harmonious communication and and team work between neighbours of the community due to street art. Furthermore we created a platform to exchange stories, memories and to emphasise the talent of people.
Together with the kids of Tiempo de Juego, their parents, the community La Lucha, the help of national and international volunteers, donations and artists we have generated three grafitis so far:
- Graffiti: "The history of La Lucha": The first graffiti tells the story of the neighborhood and the importance of the huge tree "Caracolí", as well as the origin of the name "La Lucha". The colombian artist "Tufic" invited the comunity to tell him their own story of the neighborhood and visualized it in a impressive streetart. Due to the exchange of perspectives on history between the community everybody can learn from each other and share experience. Reflection helps to understand what has happened in the past and creates identification and cohesion in the community,
- Graffiti: "Sierra Nevada": 16-year old Rosa Maria Romero which belongs to Tiempo de Juego since the beginning in 2015 won the streetart competition of Tiempo de Juego "Graffitis for La Lucha to promote peace". Together with the french artist @onlyclarity she helped to realize her drawing of the nature of the Sierra Nevada in the main street of La Lucha.
- Graffiti: "Eliminiation of violence against women": Due to the International Day of the "Eliminiation of violence against women" on November 29th, the colombian artist @arboleda and the community realized the graffiti of the powerful hands "Together we fight for women respect" which has a powerful location: the center of La Lucha.
Art has the power to transform lives in the community, to improve the conditions of the neighborhood as well as their image. After finishing the three grafitis we have realize that people present their neighborhood with more pride and interacting more than before. That helps to improve the peaceful communication in La Lucha but as well the communication between Tiempo de Juego and La Lucha
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