Arts Lab 5.0: Rafael Raețchi, R. of Moldova - Month 2

In this month, our team has managed to implement a variety of activities successfully and has worked to accomplish the projects targets. Some of the most important events have been the art workshops we did in Garabet Ibrăileanu School, and the Museum of Alternative Folklore. 

During the art workshops, we have managed to interact with the students of the school and to teach them more about arts and the Cucuteni Culture. In the workshop I partook, I helped Ahmed to coordinate and draw a beautiful mural on one of the school’s walls. With almost 30 passionate kids, we have managed to create a mural which uses Cucuteni Culture’s graphical elements. The kids were excited to work on this project, and have helped us a lot in the creation of this mural.

The Alternative Museum of Folklore was also a success. We have managed to attract a considerable number of visitors to our exhibition in Târgu Frumos, and have organized engaging artworks. My personal work consisted of the interviews we have been taking of a number of Iași region crafters who told us their stories: pains and joys. We had a considerable amount of youth sitting down for as much as half an hour to enjoy the short-documentaries presented to them by us. 

I have already started working on the artworks for the next museum, in collaboration with two Romanian artists, artworks that will involve multiple art forms in order to engage the audience as much as possible. The project is going well, and I am hoping to manage to achieve all the targets by the end of our 6 months collaboration.

Rafael Raețchi is from Republic of Moldova, and is participating in a six-month volunteering program within Arts Lab 5.0, a project co-funded by the European Union through the European Solidarity Corps.