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ART FOR THERAPY
Art Therapy Workshops for the Divya Chaya Trust homes and education centres.
"In October and November 2009 I travelled to Kolkata and Delhi to run creative workshops
in a number of the DCT Centres. My plan was to introduce the women, teenagers and
children to techniques they were unlikely to have encountered in India and allow
them to experience the joy and fun of creativity for its own sake."
Many of the children made press prints, monoprints and clothes peg butterflies.
The teenagers at Rajarhat explored their dreams for their futures by drawing symbolically
within the shapes of mandalas. The women embroiderers plunged into garden collages
made from brilliantly coloured tissue papers.
Expressing oneself through art is a powerful therapy. It was a great privilege to
work with such dignified and courageous people and I am very much looking forward
to returning this year.
Valarie Armstrong
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