Power Of Moo
Playful, Profound and Practical
The Power of Moo is exploring new, practical ways to facilitate interaction between refugees and local people. Creating space for a common expression:
on stage, in the streets or in the (apple)fields.
Integration by the art of acting together.
Refugee Integration
"In a global world i lost my country.
My country lost me.
I am dependent on your generosity.
At least for now.
May be, you can help me to
Find back my strength
See who I am,
I just arrived."
Fruit harvest with refugees
October 27, 2015
With the help of the public website Mundraub.org we found some free harvestable apple and walnut trees. In a refugee center close by we asked some young refugees to join us picking fruit.
Result:
free food for refugee center, integrating experience for young refugees, some nice days in the sun :)
Using tools from #sharingeconomy to address refugee challenge.
48 Hour Theater - Refugees
April 23, 2015
Creating a theater performance with a group of people from over 10 nationalities. A piece about leaving your country, a challenging travel and arriving at a new home. The piece was developed and performed within 48 hours based on stories from refugees. Some of them played along in the one hour piece.
Reaction from actors:
"This is so connecting"
Reaction from audience:
"Truly heartwarming, from the beginning to the end"
48 Hour Film Project - refugee character
September 24, 2015
The 48 Hour Film Project is an international film competition where filmmakers make a short film within 48 hours based on some random elements they hear friday evening. In Utrecht 2015 one of the elements that had to be in the film was a refugee. The teams had to incoorporate some kind of refugee charcater in their film.
Result:
- quote from one of the participating filmmakers:
"This is the movie that i always wanted to make, but i only found out after i did it"
- several films made it to the national media