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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. In the village we speak a lot about tikkun olam. Fixing the world, and tikkun halev. To me, they are unavoidably intertwined. When I came to. To do something good for the world, I got something for myself too. One particular incident in April reminds me of the lessons I learned at the village. I was very preoccupied with planning and executing the large mural before our big inauguration ceremony.
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: October 2008
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. A surprising visit to Rambam hospital. Chag sameach (happy holidays) to you from sunny Haifa! I write to you from an outdoor café where friends leisurely sip their coffee and wish each other a shana tova (good new year). It wasn’t until I joined the ninth grade on their visit to Rambam Hospital in Haifa that I understood. 8221; he asked. “Do you like living in Israel? But I hesitated as they headed to...
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: August 2008
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. Epic battles and muddy mosaics. Emek HaElah", a valley just outside of Jerusalem, surrounded by hills of beige clay and dotted with green Terebinth trees, from which the valley gets its name. In the time of King Saul, this was the place of the epic battle between young David and the Philistine giant, Goliath. But how does one transform the landscape and its rich history into. A piece of art? Returning...
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: Painting a Massive Mural
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. Painting a Massive Mural. The story of creating the mural is the story of the first seven months of the village. It all began when the kids arrived at Agahozo for the first time. I asked them each to draw a picture of their personal goals, feelings about the village, and ideas about. Everyone participated in painting, kids and staff alike. Spots of color started to appear, slowly at first. Part of the...
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: January 2009
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. A Breakfast Story, and a day in the life of Agahozo Shalom. Breakfast in the village is served at 7 am each morning. According to the schedule, that is. On Monday, January 12, the first day of school, kids were so excited they couldn’t sleep and arrived at breakfast at 6:30am so as to be up the hill and ready for school half an hour before classes began. While the kids are busy learning biology, chemi...
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: thoughts waiting on a crowded minibus
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. Thoughts waiting on a crowded minibus. Rain clouds rolling in push me here miss buy a banana I have no hand you have two. Little kids waving hi! Black women learning to sew learning to live. Do you know your body is your own - what they are willing to sell for money for the kids glued to their backs bending over sewing machine peddling one stitch after another sweat dripping-. Making ART at Agahozo.
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: December 2008
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. From First weeks at Agahozo Shalom. Hello from Agahozo Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) in Rwanda! On Tuesday afternoon I arrived safely in Rwanda from St. Louis via New York, London, and Nairobi. About an hour out of Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, we turned off the main road and on to a bumpy dirt one that wound through the hills. Counselors, house mothers, cooks, security guards, construction workers, la...
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: A Breakfast Story, and a day in the life of Agahozo Shalom
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. A Breakfast Story, and a day in the life of Agahozo Shalom. Breakfast in the village is served at 7 am each morning. According to the schedule, that is. On Monday, January 12, the first day of school, kids were so excited they couldn’t sleep and arrived at breakfast at 6:30am so as to be up the hill and ready for school half an hour before classes began. While the kids are busy learning biology, chemi...
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda: Painting a Lifetime
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Painting Hope: Israel and Rwanda. Join Tanya on her journey creating art with Israeli and Rwandan youth. I got lost in the deep shadows under the squinty eyes creased by laughter. Felt myself trace the long black braids cutting through the swirls of colorful fabric. I’m painting a lifetime, I thought, as I dipped my brush into black ink and moved towards the page. As I spread a thin coat of ink across the page to form the smooth skin around her neck, she peers down to see her portrait. I learn that it is...
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