Little Amal

 

https://www.walkwithamal.org/

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54447475

 

A huge puppet is being walked across the length of Europe to raise awareness of refugees. The puppet will walk 5000 miles from Syria to the UK.

 

The puppet is named Little Amal and is 3.5m high and the project is being called the most ambitious art project ever attempted.

 

Little Amal will set off from Turkey/ Syria border and travel through Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and France. All along the journey Amal will be met with street parades, like a “traveling festival of art and hope.” They will not be alone on their travels. The organisers hope to “rewrite the narrative about refugees.”

 

The puppet will be operated by three people; one inside the body on stilts and another two each side.

 

-          What is a refugee?

-          What is travelling like for a refugee?

-          Why is the puppet walking, why don’t they drive between each country or get a plane?

-          Why do you think the organisers want to have street parades and festivals for Little Amal?

-          Why call the puppet little Amal when it is so huge? Why do you think the organisers chose to use a big puppet rather than a small hand held puppet?

-          Why do they want to “rewrite the narrative about refugees”? what do you think the narrative is about refugees currently?

-          Why do you think those countries were chosen? Why not go through Russia or Spain?

-          “A festival of art and hope” what does that mean? What will it look like?

-          What can we learn from this art project?

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No Outsiders: Everyone different, everyone welcome by Andrew Moffat   

www.no-outsiders.com