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Communitism, 28-05-2023

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Perspectives: The Art of Inclusiveness Beyond Borders

It was a Saturday afternoon and we had arranged to meet at Communitism, a beautiful formerly abandoned neoclassical building in Metaxourgio, hosting communal events and organizations. This is where Perspectives Art meets every Saturday to create art together, to discuss future plans, and to support each other. In 2016, while volunteering in Lesvos, Caroline Halliday, an artist, curator, and arts organiser from the U.K., realized that when unable to control the basic elements of daily life, people yearn for creative outlet. Perspectives Art came about in 2017, with the support of volunteers working with artists who lived in squats and camps. Its main goal is to support and empower talented people in vulnerable situations to express themselves through art and to sustain themselves through their craft.

What sets this art team apart from many others is its community-oriented and multicultural ethic. By that we mean that the team, the people who both provide and benefit from the collective’s mission, is a mosaic of cultural backgrounds and identities. Some languages you’ll hear if you join one of Perspectives Art’s meetings are English, Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, and Greek. The connecting line between them is art. During our visit we met Mehrdad, a political refugee from Iran who was forced to flee his country and leave his family behind. Upon his arrival to Greece he spent two months in prison because he was not yet issued asylum and during these days his art was all he had; he expressed himself in his diary through sketches and drawings. Sally, another Perspectives Art member came to Greece from Iraq when she was only two years old. Painting, she says, has helped her understand her own identity and self-concept. In her opinion, every being has an artist within them in some way and we should all express this artistic energy we’re hiding if we want to create a peaceful, harmonious world.