39 million people around the world are refugees or internally displaced. More than 40 percent of refugees are children. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2007.
ART provides curriculum and training programs to engage both children and adults in refugee communities in visual, performing and creative arts drawn from their own cultures. These activities provide local and international relief institutions with tools to help refugee communities recover from the trauma, terror and dislocation of war.
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A.R.T. in film: Natalia Sánchez Querubín, one of A.R.T.’s interns in Colombia, and Colombian filmmaker, Alejandro Ramírez, have produced a documentary on A.R.T.’s program in Tintalito. The film, "Así cantaba el niño conde" was premiered this past summer at the Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The film was also selected to participate in the documentary festival called the "9na Muestra Internacional." The film was shown in Bogotá in September, in Guadalajara in November and will be shown in Canada this spring. See above for a sneak preview of the film.
International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (UNESCO)
