{"id":2713,"date":"2016-12-16T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2016-12-16T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T12:05:16","slug":"through-the-eyes-of-the-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/uncategorized\/through-the-eyes-of-the-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Eyes of the Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To raise awareness about the refugee crisis, Trajnostni Park Istra invited EVS Volunteer Gemma Gelabert Gonzalo to set up her exhibition <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1XbmDwugNJE\">&#8216;Skozi o\u010di beguncev<\/a>&#8216;<\/strong> in Koper. Sredi\u0161\u010de Rotunda Koper was also willing to collaborate, hosting\u00a0the exhibition until the 15th of January in their main hall where numerous events will take place over the\u00a0next months, so many people will be able to experience the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2715\" src=\"http:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161214_151047-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161214_151047-1024x576\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2718\" src=\"http:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161214_151505-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20161214_151505-1024x576\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gemma Gelabert Gonzalo is an EVS Volunteer in Mladinski Center Velenje for a period of 12 months. Before coming to Slovenia, Gemma had the opportunity to work in a Refugee Camp in Greece. There she realized how important it is to let the world know about the\u00a0tough life refugees are faced with. After a while, a great project came out. Gemma started organizing exhibitions to spread the voice of the refugees, through the amazing photography work of a refugee and a volunteer from the Greek camp, Abdulazeez Dukhan, and a journalist\u00a0Ana Parra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2714\" src=\"http:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20161214_152706-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"img_20161214_152706-1024x576\" width=\"385\" height=\"217\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2716\" src=\"http:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161214_155412-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20161214_155412-1024x576\" width=\"386\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To get a closer contact with the project, we decided to make a short interview with Gemma, to understand better how and why she started the project.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">What was the main reason that moved you to make the exhibition?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I think the exhibition is a very powerful tool to show the perspective of the people, the way how people are really dealing with it, from their eyes and voice. That\u2019s also why the exhibition is called \u201cThrough the Eyes of the Refugees\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">How did you end up in\u00a0a refugee camp in Greece?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Back in Catalunya, I had a lot of friends who went to help in refugees camps in Greece and I also wanted to do something about it. And then I met this group that planned to go there, so we went together. It was just the perfect opportunity to go.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">How did your project start?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The exhibition started before I came to Slovenia through EVS. When I was in Greece, I met a Syrian guy who was creating this photos and texts to spread the voice of the refugees. And when I came to Slovenia in the middle of July, I wanted to help him to spread the voice. So, I proposed to Mladinski Center Velenje to start this initiative as a project. In October, we did it in three different places of Velenje and now we are spreading it elsewhere in Slovenia.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is there any deeper meaning in your selection of the pictures and the way they are presented?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I decided that the pictures will be framed in a simple, torn cardboard. Cardboard is a material that is used everywhere and for everything in the refugee camps. I wanted to recreate a glimpse of the real conditions there.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>How was the feedback of the public after\u00a0the first exhibitions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The people who came to visit were really interested about\u00a0what was really going on and to get to know more about the refugees. People are many times afraid of the refugees and the bad things the situation can bring. That is why it is so important to spread the truth \u00a0and show that the refugees are just people like you and me, who got caught in an unfortunate situation. This could happen to us, too, someday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beatriz Louren\u00e7o (EVS Volunteer, Portugal)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2720\" src=\"http:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20161214_152516-576x1024-2.jpg\" alt=\"20161214_152516-576x1024\" width=\"234\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To raise awareness about the refugee crisis, Trajnostni Park Istra invited EVS Volunteer Gemma Gelabert Gonzalo to set up her exhibition &#8216;Skozi o\u010di beguncev&#8216; in Koper. Sredi\u0161\u010de Rotunda Koper was also willing to collaborate, hosting\u00a0the exhibition until the 15th of January in their main hall where numerous events will take place over the\u00a0next months, so many people will be able to experience the exhibition. \u00a0\u00a0 Gemma Gelabert Gonzalo is an EVS Volunteer in Mladinski Center Velenje for a period of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkistra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}