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CCA

Engagement

Two women stand at a table sorting envelopes in a classroom, decorated with colourful charts and paper stars. They appear focused and engaged in their task.

Crossing Borders - opening the mystery mail at Rathfern Primary. Photo: Michelle Henderson-Vieria

Two children in green uniforms are sitting at a red table holding cut out images. They appear engaged in an educational activity.

Photo: Michelle Henderson-Vieria

An open book on a red table displays two collages of people. Two hands are visible, suggesting children are interacting with the book.

Crossing Borders - folded artworks ready to mail from Rathfern Prinary. Photo: Defne Oruc

Crossing Borders - opening the mystery mail at Rathfern Primary. Photo: Michelle Henderson-Vieria

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Crossing Borders

School Workshops

Crossing Borders is an autumn 2021 exchange project between 10 primary schools in Lewisham and South Africa linking to Eugenio Dittborn’s show Airmail Paintings, and a broader schools partnership Your Voice Can Change the World.

For Crossing Borders schools are sharing histories and stories and creating their own artworks to exchange in the mail. Over a series of 5 workshops students are creating resources for resilience and change, through the medium of large-scale collaboratively made artworks to be sent to a partner school in the mail. The project provides students with an opportunity to reflect on individual and collective identities, and relationships between the local and global. In making something physical for another school to receive in the future, Crossing Borders embraces the scope for future thinking and change.

Crossing Borders has been devised in collaboration with artist Meera Chauda, philosopher Ayisha de Lanerolle and developed in partnership and tested with Rathfern Primary school’s Equator Class in July 2021.

Crossing Borders is an autumn 2021 exchange project between 10 primary schools in Lewisham and South Africa linking to Eugenio Dittborn’s show Airmail Paintings, and a broader schools partnership Your Voice Can Change the World.

For Crossing Borders schools are sharing histories and stories and creating their own artworks to exchange in the mail. Over a series of 5 workshops students are creating resources for resilience and change, through the medium of large-scale collaboratively made artworks to be sent to a partner school in the mail. The project provides students with an opportunity to reflect on individual and collective identities, and relationships between the local and global. In making something physical for another school to receive in the future, Crossing Borders embraces the scope for future thinking and change.

Crossing Borders has been devised in collaboration with artist Meera Chauda, philosopher Ayisha de Lanerolle and developed in partnership and tested with Rathfern Primary school’s Equator Class in July 2021.

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