Turing Scheme & Arts Lab 5.0: Raphaelle Kent, UK - Month 2

This month has gone by very fast, it doesn’t seem like long ago I was writing the first monthly report. Since the folkloric exhibition in our home we have begun the Cucuteni Alternative museum project, starting with an artist residency in another local school. 

The group of children, Hajer and I had in our workshop team, were really amazing to work with, I enjoyed the residency very much and looked forward to going to the school each day! The children were very passionate and enthusiastic about learning crafts. We baked bread with them in the classroom, and along with Violeta made clay bowls, created dresses decorated with Cucuteni symbols and learnt print making techniques during the 6 days spent at the school. The experience had a very positive impact on me and the children’s energy was very refreshing and positive. I will be glad if they can come and see their hard work in the Cucuteni final exhibition. 

As well as the work we are doing for the project I have become even closer with everyone in the group and really love that we have become real friends. I also want to mention the most recent event we attended where musicians in Târgu Frumos performed for each other in the children’s club. I loved this event very much, there was a joyful atmosphere and I got to improvise with a guitarist which was a lot of fun, I feel as though I am reconnecting to my passion for music which I felt slightly distant from before coming to the project. I hope I will continue to learn new things from everybody I meet here during the rest of my time in Romania. Also we said goodbye to our little dog who is now starting his new life in Germany where my roommate Dajana's family will look after him. We will miss his big personality! 

Raphaelle Kent is from United Kingdom and she is participating in a six-month volunteering program within Arts Lab 5.0, a project co-funded by the Turing Scheme UK and by European Union through the European Solidarity Corps.