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Project "Those Who Seat with the Wolf" - Arts as a media in the integration of marginalised groups

Socially engaged arts project "Those Who Seat with the Wolf" was launched with the aim to open channels for communication between marginalised and „ordinary“ groups of people, abandonment of the traditional attitudes toward marginalised and support the creative potentials of all participants. The project started in the creative workshop of the Day care Center for Rehabilitation "Mali dom- Zagreb". Participants of the creative workshop (group of multiple impaired youth in the age of 15-21) were introduced in the role of artists and led by an art therapist through creative process. The group created two sculptures of the Girls (the alter egos of two participants) and sculpture of the Wolf, which symbolizes the wild self-contained authentic essence. Identities of the sculptures were determined by the projective techniques. These movable sculptures become protagonists of fairy tale – in - progress, developed in art and drama workshops for the target groups of people (disabled, Roma people, assailants, youth with behavioural problems, retirees, kindergarten and school children). Simultaneously, collected narrative and visual content from the workshops was transformed in the interactive theatre play and staged by the students of Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences from University of Zagreb. In the final event of the project, accompanied with exhibition of visual products, play was performed for all participants and public audience. The name of the project paraphrases the title of bestseller of the Jungian analyst Clarisse Pincola Estés "Women who run with the Wolves". In the connection with main idea of that book and the fact that in the settings and the rhythm of modern life many lose contact with their nature, this project opened the space for expressing the authenticity and self- realization of persons with disabilities, members of other marginalized groups and every participant as well.

arts project, fairytale, marginalised group

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