Help sustain a community arts workshop in Camp Smara!
Founder of Motif, Mohamed Sleiman Labat at work.
MOTIF Art Studio & Workshop was founded by our friend and colleague, Mohamed Sleiman Labat, an internationally known artist, poet and filmmaker born, raised and living in the refugee camp of Smara located in SW Algeria.
The mission of Motif is to engage in projects that focus on the core theme (or "motif") of arts-and culture-based projects related to self-determination and the perpetuation of sustainable communities/life ways for the Sahrawi in the Western Sahara refugee camps. The community has been profoundly impacted by colonization, forced exile, assimilation, and the loss of cultural knowledge and practices. They work with the arts to counter this history and to vision a way forward.
For more information on MOTIF check out the facebook page and Instagram as well as Sleiman Labat's recent publication, A Temple of Art in the Middle of the Desert: Reflections on Creating Motif Art Studio: The Role of Art in The Sahrawi Refugee Camps included in the book, Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice: Expression, Identity and Empowerment.
Interested in supporting MOTIF?
THANK YOU/SHUKRAAN!
The mission of Motif is to engage in projects that focus on the core theme (or "motif") of arts-and culture-based projects related to self-determination and the perpetuation of sustainable communities/life ways for the Sahrawi in the Western Sahara refugee camps. The community has been profoundly impacted by colonization, forced exile, assimilation, and the loss of cultural knowledge and practices. They work with the arts to counter this history and to vision a way forward.
For more information on MOTIF check out the facebook page and Instagram as well as Sleiman Labat's recent publication, A Temple of Art in the Middle of the Desert: Reflections on Creating Motif Art Studio: The Role of Art in The Sahrawi Refugee Camps included in the book, Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice: Expression, Identity and Empowerment.
Interested in supporting MOTIF?
THANK YOU/SHUKRAAN!
For ArtsAction Group projects in the camps see our Western Sahara project page.
