Hugging The City
September 6th, 2006 at 5:10 pm (Uncategorized)
Not many people would want to hug Jakarta. It’s filthy, over-crowded, noisy and an incredibly stressful place to live in. That said, those nice people at the Sacred Bridge Foundation are encouraging the city’s children to do just that.
A city is a wilderness, but not necessarily in a negative way. From the culture point of view, such a wilderness is indeed full of potentials that are ready to be explored. Knowing the wilderness of the city also means knowing and understanding our roots and characteristics. Being unfamiliar with the wilderness of our Surrounding means that we are alienating ourselves from own home. To help children live more positively, transformative relations with elements of their city have to be built. Based on this thought, Sacred Bridge provides a special program for the urban children to learn about their history and identity, as well as the potential that their homes possess.
This coming Sunday, the 10th, children aged 7 to 17 (with their parents) are invited to visit a mighty trashmaster who has travelled around Indonesia and a man who can turn used paper into something useful.
Participants are also encouraged to bring their cameras as an exhibition will be held at Galeri Foto ANTARA the weekend after.
Phone ~ 021.737 1148 or email for details. But hurry, places are limited.