Seeing Beyond the Surface: Perception, Identity and Migration Experience

About the event
Seeing Beyond the Surface: Perception, Identity and Migration Experience

This gentle, reflective workshop invites participants to slow down and look beyond first impressions — of images, stories, and each other. Through creative exercises and guided dialogue, we explore how perception is formed, how identity is layered, and how migration experiences — both personal and inherited — shape the way we see and are seen.
We created this workshop as a safe and welcoming space where art becomes a bridge between inner experience and shared understanding. Using simple visual and craft-based methods, participants will translate feelings, memories, and viewpoints into creative form — without pressure for artistic skill, only openness and curiosity.

Why do we run this workshop?
Because in a world of fast judgments and fixed labels, we need spaces where nuance is possible. Where stories can unfold slowly. Where difference is not a barrier, but material…

Project reference:2024-1-IT02-KA210-VET-0002437000
Programme: Erasmus+ VET – KA210

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