#tytsjerk

We couldn't have asked for better weather. What a start.

Dirk, Nir, Lily, Tami, Arnab, Natasja And Me - Image Makers

Natasja’s Dispaly

Arnab’s Display.

They came out in good numbers.

My Dispaly

Tami’s Display

Nir’s Work

Andrijana’s Installation

Takashi and Henk’s Collaborative Dispaly

Leli’s Magic Carpet

Rupsa’s Work

Natasa’s performance

Jose Performing at the church.

Mr Takashi’s Installation.

Levi’s Installation

Lydia’s Pods.

Francois Installation.

They are real refugees who travelled from Tiel to Tytsjerk. Now settled in Belgium. It was a strange fortunate co-incidence that they walked into the church while we were working. They were Holidaying in Tytsjerk and had no clue about the Artcamp.

Giny Bastiaans as Anna the Story Teller.

Reina Rodina van der Meer Creative Producer

Shiri Wilk Artistic Content Leader

Henk de Lange Installation group leader

Clockwise Zuky Serper, Lydia Pieksma, Levi Folkeringa, Fancois Davin 

Takashi Ikezawa 

Clockwise Leli Hoch, Andriana Bugaric, Priyanka Das , Rupsa Kundu

Nir Nader  Image Making Group Leader

clockwise Mad Paule(Me), Natasja Knap, Tami Barkai, Arnab Ghosal.

Bruno Rummler Sounding group leader

Eduardo Praca, Jean-Francois Roussel, Olivera Milojevic, Jelmer Scholte

Willy Van Assen, Jose Antonio Garcia, Natasa Milojevic

Amarins Jansma Head of Production

The kind volunteers.

My Beautiful host Ms Joke

This is where the Imagemakers worked. A Cafeteria next to the church, away from the Hustle-Bustle and away from internet. A perfect place to on your own.

Natasja loves textures and materials. Her car was an endless supply of stationary. She has a special way of connecting dots and telling stories.

Arnab Da putting his creativity and experience in binding the zine together.

Tami drawing the roots, knitting the stories and memories in her special way.

Natasja, Nir (our team leader) and Tami. We had such an incredible team.

José silently putting life into his paper dolls.

And one fine day we found this mystery man who was watering the flowers in the graveyard as it was dry season. But the exciting part was that he was the witness to the the war and refugees who came to stay in Tytsjerk. He told us how as a young boy he often went out for swim other teenage boys and girls who came as refugees.

His name was Mr Bokah.

Meeting Mr Oebele was the most rewarding moment for me during the camp. The man is history personified. He was a brave young boy during the war who chose to work with the resistance. He often worked as an informer and supplied guns hidden inside the shoes against the Germans. He was never suspected because he was too young. But he always felt victorious doing so. 

His family gave shelter to the refugees. On asking why did they do so when they themselves were struggling. His answer was simple - It was necessary. 

He shared many more stories. A big thanks to Geke Walsma who made this meeting possible and translated all the stories which was put together a a video.

Mr Oebele along with Geke and Mr Oebele’s second wife (right) sharing the generations old albums with us.

Tytsjerk Church was the first place to find the Refuge.

Reina Rodina van der meer , Creative producer of the Art Camp giving the induction speech.

Reina introducing the Team Leaders.

Shiri Wilk , The Artistic Content leader giving her introduction and talking about the theme of the Artcamp.

Participating Artists giving their introduction.

Mr Oebele Leistra belongs to the family who gave shelter to the refugees. He is among the very few who live to tell the stories.

Ms Giny Bastiaans, reciting the story of the refugees and the times. Her impeccable performance gave a kick start to all creations during the camp.