Invisible Walls – No Walls for Kids Nowhere
A fixed amount of profits raised by the miniatures will assist selected development projects for children and young people.
Auction of original components of the Berlin Wall for
the Raisa Gorbacheva Institute.
Within the framework of the conferment of the Cinema for Peace Honorary Award
to Mikhail Gorbachev on the 8th of November 2009, a piece made from
an original Berlin Wall segment and funded by VisibleWall, ‘One World’ (by the
artist Kiddy Citny) secured in an auction 40 000 Euros. This was donated to the leukemia
children’s hospital in Moscow. We
thank the acquirers for their great generosity.
Research projects in Germany
VisibleWall emphasises projects that make the history of the division of
Germany, and thus also of the Wall, something that is comprehendable and vivid
for children and young people.
We seek creative projects that make it possible, also in
the future, particularly for school pupils to connect with the theme of postwar
German division. Together with our partner Rosenthal, VisibleWall is, for
example, open to suggestions such as using the miniatures in lessons in order
to make interaction with German-German history more engaging (such as, for eg,
initiatives painting the segments and others).
Development Projects in Regions of Conflict.
Under the motto »No Walls for Kids – nowhere«, we
want to support selected small development projects for children in crisis
regions, and thus make a small contribution to ameliorating the consequences of
political conflicts for children and young people. Totalitarian frontiers are
not always as obvious as those found in Korea and Palestine. The invisible
walls in peoples’ heads, with their dramatic ramifications on the lives of
children, are often make greater impact.
We would be glad to receive information about »Grass Roots« projects in conflict regions, likewise to receive contact with artists who wish to effect thought-provoking impulses through the use of Wall-sympols used in their work.
