I hope Projects

Eolia proposed in 2019 a creative immersion in Athens together with students of the Blanquerna University of Barcelona. The aim was to do research work, international cooperation, and generate creative content that would rethink the vision of the situation of refugees in Greece and have a return for the groups with which they were in direct contact during their stay. .

This immersion in the field was the starting point to develop a work of joint creation between students of the Degree of Audiovisual Communication of Blanquerna and the Degree in Dramatic Art ofEOLIA CSAD with the goal of developing creative pieces to give voice to everything that is happening.

The project allowed them to get to know abandoned buildings located in the center of Athens where the displaced took refuge, visit the squats in the Exarchia neighborhood inhabited by them, and get to know the institutions that serve these people.

An opportunity for personal and professional growth of a social, multicultural and multidisciplinary nature in the field of creativity.

If you want more information about how the project went and all the work that is currently being done, you can contact us via info@ojalaprojects.com or visit the web www.ojalaprojects.com

Images of the project

Re-creating the shelter

: Squat resident girl named the fifth school where more than 350 refugees live.

: Recently born resident in the Squat called Acharnon 22, dedicated to pregnant women and infants during the lactation period.

: Photo of the unaccompanied young people, resident in the Squat called the second school where more than 300 refugees live.

: Hope Make the Future. Project carried out with unaccompanied refugees who consists of a message of hope in the form of a mural on the facade of the building where more than 100 refugee families reside.

: Mohammed, 24 years of Syria residing at the Second School.

: Graffiti Exarchia. Exarchia is a neighborhood in the center of Athens where most of the Squats are located and in which there is a large amount of graffiti and a reference for urban art.

: Hope Make the Future. Project by Anaïs Esmerado, co-founder of Ojalá Projects (@Ojalaprojects).

Photographs by Dario Mitidieri, Alicia Verdés and Anaïs Esmerado.

Informative session

Students in Greece

Minking of the project

After the experience lived on next day On July 4 we will view the different works we did and it will be the result of a whole process. You can see:

-Videoclip of creation with unaccompanied young refugees.
-Trailer of the documentary project on motherhood in transit.
- Work in theSquad full 5th School from the neighborhoodExarchia.
-Documentary short film “Re-create the refuge "of the entire creation process made with the students of Blanquerna and Eolia.

More information a www.eolia.cat/re-creant-el-refugi/