Piñata Wrecking Party

Have you ever wanted to beat the crap out of your job rejections? Well, now you can!
A group of job seekers and I in a series of workshops have created piñatas from paper maché out of our printed job rejections. In this event, our creations are on display for all to see--until we smash them.

We warmly invite you to come to our Piñata Wrecking Party to help us smash our job rejections as a a bold statement on mental health and unemployment in Finland

Being a job seeker can be consuming and negatively impact your mental health and well-being and I would like to change the way we see job seekers. As Noemí Gutiérrez Valdés puts it, "This redefines the power of rejection, which often feels overwhelming when we let it define us. Instead of allowing rejection to wreck us, we take control—wrecking the piñata made of job rejections, turning it into an act of self-preservation and even a bit of fun!"

As the unemployment rate hovers around 13% in Helsinki (kaupunkitieto.hel.fi), the uncertainty and helplfessness of job seekers is palpable. Students from outside the EU que in bread lines and desperately searching for part-time work. However, the reality is nothing but as many arrived with expectations of easy access to part-time work, but are finding the Finnish job market difficult to enter. Not to mention, the number of unemployed young people increased by 33% from a year ago, unemployed people over 50 years old increased by 13% and the number of unemployed people aged 25–49 increased by 18% from a year ago. The number of long-term unemployed people increased by 19% from a year ago while there were 30% fewer job vacancies than a year earlier.

As the situation continues to worsen and the list of things we can’t control grows longer, this piñata wrecking party is my way of adding something to the list of what we CAN control

16:00 - 17:00 - Exhibit of the piñatas. Walk around and read and see what was created

17:00 - Introduce the exhibition and the creators of the piñatas

17:15 - Smashing of the piñata's begins

18:00 - 20:00 - Socialize, mingle, and be merry

• Some non-alcoholic drinks will be provided, but if you want something else, BYOB
• A DJ will be playing throughout the party
• This event supports 'safer space' practices which means it is free of discrimination and harassment of of any kind

If you have any questions or want to offer to help organize the event, please contact me at aG9wZSAhIG1ha2FyYSB8IG1pZWxpd2l0aG91dGJvcmRlcnMgISBmaQ==

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