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Curator Roberta Bacic addressing the audience at the launch of the exhibition: 'ARPILLERAS: verhalen over leven
ARPILLERAS:  stories of life and survival'. (Photo: Marcel te Pas)

Curator Roberta Bacic addressing the audience at the launch of the exhibition: 'ARPILLERAS: verhalen over leven ARPILLERAS: stories of life and survival'. (Photo: Marcel te Pas)

 

Exhibition and associated activities:Arpilleras: Verhalen over leven / Arpilleras: stories of life and survival
Description: This exhibition, comprised of 22 textiles, will be complemented with a number of associated activities. These are outlined on the following websites:
Learn for Life (in Dutch)
Festival Van Het Leren (in Dutch)
Commissioned by: Foundation Learn for Life – Dutch Adult Learning Festival
Date(s): 23rd September 2015 - 20th November 2015
Venue: FlevoMeer Bibliotheek Lelystad, The Netherlands
De Promesse 4, Lelystad, The Netherlands
Curator: Roberta Bacic
Facilitator: Lidwien Vos de Wael,
Outcome:




Documents: • list of exhibition textiles - view
• Programme - view
• Exhibition poster - view
• Opening programme - view
• Exhibition leaflet - view
• Chilean embassy note - view
 




Textiles Displayed: • Caín, ¿dónde está tu hermano? / Cain, where is your brother?
• Juntos en la adversidad / Together in adversity
• Olla común en una población / Soup Kitchen in a barrio
• No más contaminación / No more pollution
• Marcha de las mujeres de los mineros
• Reflections on violence
• No going back
• Will there be poppies, daisies and apples when I grow up?
• Nuestro Taller de Arpilleras / Our Arpilleras Workshop
• Los precios están por las nubes / Prices are sky high
• Hermanos Mapuche en huelga de hambre / Mapuche people on hunger strike
• Baile Puneño / Puno Folk Dance
• Carmen Gloria quemada viva / Carmen Gloria burnt alive
• Overdue, Overdrawn, Over-extended: Rural Poverty in Ireland
• Escuelita de Otavalo / Otavalo Primary School
• Our Allotments, the Pride of New Barns
• En Chile se tortura / Demonstration against torture
• Retorno/Return
• Auf der Flucht 1945 / Fleeing in 1945
• They burnt our homes
• Lavandería popular / Community launderette
• La cueca sola / Dancing cueca alone