Mural in Santiago made possible by collaboration between Palestinian and Chilean children

(24 Dec 2024)
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Santiago, Chile - 23 December 2024
1. Mural of a girl holding an empty cage and birds laid on her head, being unveiled
2. Muralist Ian Pierce watching mural
3. People watching mural
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ana Maria Osorio, teacher at “Horacio Aravena” school:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 1 - 3 & 5 - 7++
“The children received these photographs of children from Gaza, where on a small sheet of paper they illustrated their dream, which had a lot to do with being a doctor, messages conveying a sense of freedom. These photos arrived here and the children here illustrated in relation to the dreams of the children of Gaza.”
5. View of of mural with the name of children who participated
6. Detail of yellow bird on mural
7. Children's names and their art
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ian Pierce, muralist:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 7 & 9 - 11++
“For us doing collaborative artwork with kids on the other side of the world is not just making art, it's not just keeping kids busy. We are resisting occupation. For us, this is fundamental. We need bread, we need medicine, we need to have a minimum of security, which we don't have, but we also need support, solidarity and spirituality.”
9. Pierce and Osorio moving ladder
10. Yellow bird on mural
11. Pierce arranging veil to cover mural for inauguration
STORYLINE:
A group of artists and schoolteachers in Chile linked Gazan and Chilean children together by creating a collaborative mural in capital Santiago.

The joint effort was made possible by using the thoughts, photographs and documents made by the Palestinian children, and then put together by the Chileans in their public school.

The project “The Names of Freedom,” is an initiative by muralist Ian Pierce, who said the idea could be replicated by others.

"For us doing collaborative artwork with kids on the other side of the world is not just making art, it's not just keeping kids busy. We are resisting occupation," Pierce said.

Ana Maria Osorio, a teacher of “Horacio Aravena” school, said the messages convey a "sense of freedom."

Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel in a surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250.

Around 100 hostages are still in Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.

Israel’s subsequent bombardment and ground invasion have killed over 45,000 people in Gaza, more than half of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its count.

The offensive has caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, often multiple times.

Hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid tent camps along the coast as the cold, wet winter sets in.

AP Video shot by Mauricio Cuevas

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