“For me, from inside, I can’t tell people what I feel, I couldn’t let it reach out to anyone. So in the hopes of being able to say something, I film.” ~ Raghad
Another Kind of Girl Collective is a global arts initiative created by a group of young, female Syrian artists for girls and young women living in displaced, transitory communities around the world, to connect, collaborate, and co-create multimedia artworks and stories that reflect and express their experiences, inner lives, and artistic visions.
AKGC started as a local arts initiative for Syrian refugee girls in Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan, but starting this summer Another Kind of Girl Collective seeks to expand and become a global force for girls and young women to tell their stories. With this project, we intend to connect, collaborate, and co-create multimedia artworks and stories with other young women living in displaced, transitory communities around the world, one community at a time. In expanding our reach across cultures, borders and shifting localities of home, this collective of artists will put communities of girls into conversation with some of the hardest to reach populations, allow them to challenge stereotypes and assumptions, provide them with tools to expand their artistic portfolios, and connect them to resources that will enable them to share their stories more widely and become active players in shifting and shaping public opinion, policies, and cultural norms.
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