TSTREET’S MOST RECENT INTERNATIONAL PROJECT TOOK PLACE AT THE VATICAN’S CARITAS MINOR RECEPTION CENTER IN ROME.
THE SHELTER HOUSES FOREIGN UNACCOMPANIED AND SEPARATED CHILDREN (UASC) FROM SRI LANKA, BOTSWANA, LATVIA AND ITALY.
A LARGE PERCENTAGE HAVE NO PARENTS OR SUPPORT SYSTEM.
Our International summer project was the production of a large mural for the Vatican’s CARITAS Minor Ready Reception shelter in Rome.
Caritas platform is to end poverty, restore human dignity, provide justice and to build a better world.
It is a well respected International collection of 165 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. They work collectively with a focus on the poor and oppressed. To learn more about this incredible organization, click here: https://www.caritas.org/
The community mural project “BE LOVE” was created in collaboration with Caritas, artist Tina Loidice, the shelter’s youth and Tstreet.
We have unforgettable memories of working on the project together side by side with the youth. They were excited to be a part of the community and the cause.
It was such an incredible experience to be witness to the shift that this project brought to both the youth and the community.
Special thanks to the Caritas Association and renowned Roman artist Tina Loiodice for your support on this fulfilling project.
"Be Love", the art that becomes a community
2 Jul 2019 - 14:12
The work of street artist Tina Loiodice with the students of the Caritas Summer Center
Not even the great heat of these days stopped them: the enthusiasm was skyrocketing and the work represented the arrival point of a journey that began in November last year. On June 25th Tina Loiodice, one of the most important Roman street artists, signed a work created with the children of the Minor Ready Reception Center in Via Venafro and with the young people who attend the summer center promoted by Caritas in the neighborhood.
"Be Love" is the title of the mural that saw the contribution of the TStreet Foundation of Terese Clark, an organization that is committed to creating engaging public works of art in urban communities that encourage human connection and positive social change.
The work that the boys were involved in was started by a workshop with Tina Loiodice which took place on November 20, 2018 on the anniversary of the signing of the "Convention on the rights of children and adolescents".
IT WAS SUCH AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE TO BE WITNESS TO THE SHIFT THAT THIS PROJECT BROUGHT TO THE YOUTH AND THE COMMUNITY.
ART TRULY CAN BRING US ALL TOGETHER AND CONNECT US TO OUR COMMON HUMANITY.
