It contains events, places, memories, but also people. Three years after its inception, the “Bowing” is now launching a website – “Bowing Doc” – created to tell the story of this artistic project of integration and social inclusion, which took place in São Teotónio (Odemira), helping everyone who wants to work on the themes of art and migration.
The launch will take place this Saturday, January 20th, from 18pm, at Cineteatro Camacho Costa, in Odemira.
In statements to the Sul Informação, Madalena Victorino, great mentor of “Bowing”, explained that this is a «very important moment because it will make public the turnaround that this project has made».
Bowing brought together, through art, and in two shows, Asian migrants working in greenhouses. The objective was to integrate them into the community, showing the people of São Teotónio how important they are.
The team worked with more than 200 migrants. The privileged languages were dance, music and words and there were laboratories in schools, in greenhouses and in spaces such as the São Teotónio Parish Council and the Odemira Municipal Market.
«The enormous difficulties that these people face when arriving and trying to decipher which land they are in... all of this led us to create this website with the memory of the project, to share what we discovered and achieved, but pointing this memory towards the future» , says Madalena Victorino.
Therefore, this is «a website that offers work tools, a lot of information, practices, tactics that tell how we were also deciphering the relationship with these many people coming from the Asian continent, giving them something that could strengthen, cheer and integrate them », he adds.
The website will also be presented in Lisbon, in a session on January 27th, starting at 14:30 pm, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
In both sessions there is a group of Asian participants, adults and young people, who will talk about their involvement in the project.
«The balance of “Bowing” is very positive and interesting. In this third year of building the site, we carried out a significant set of activities with Asian participants from past years, namely young people and adults, as well as with other people we did not know and who, at the same time, contributed to the identity of this site which focuses on the present and future of the consolidation of inclusion practices that we experience, in this case, through art», concludes Madalena Victorino.
“Bowing” was a Lavrar o Mar project, developed within the scope of the PARTIS & Art for Change, financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, “la Caixa” Foundation and Câmara de Odemira.
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