The Emergency Smile Research Project, co-funded by Fondation Alta Mane, will run from 2025 to 2027 and builds on RED NOSES’ longstanding experience in humanitarian settings through its Emergency Smile programme. It will examine how clowning can enhance wellbeing, foster resilience, and strengthen social bonds among children affected by forced migration and the aid workers who support them. The research will take place alongside regular RED NOSES artistic missions in Lesvos, in partnership with grassroots organizations operating across the Greek island, and will be conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and the Jameel Arts & Health Lab.
Authors : Natacha Pirotte, Liliana Montoya De La Cruz, Viviana Rodriguez Gonzalez, Martina de Witte, Evelien, Joosten.
This study was carried out on a Red Pencil Project in Malaga aiming to strengthen refugees’ resilience. The objective of this exploratory study was to investigate the perspective of adult forcibly displaced people on the process of change after a resilience-building art therapy intervention, i.e. to (a) identify the positive changes they experience, (b) the associated therapeutic factors, and (c) the mechanisms they believe to be responsible for these changes.
Authors: Natacha Pirotte, Liliana Montoya de la Cruz, Viviana Rodriguez.
This manual, aimed at art therapists who work with forcibly displaced people and who are looking to expand their knowledge and skills in using art therapy to strengthen the resilience of their participants, has been developed from the experience gained by the Red Pencil and its team during the project “Art therapy intervention for resilience in refugees’ reception centres”, which is a multi-year project taking place in Andalusia, Spain, financed by Fondation Alta Mane.
A research study carried out by The Red Pencil (Europe) and The Spanish Red Cross (Málaga) on the quality creative impact of art-therapy on teenagers in a forced migration process and their families.
A report carried out by the European Federation of Healthcare Clown Organizations (efhco) and RED NOSES Clowndoctors International on the resilience and creativity of Healthcare Clowning Organisations during the pandemic, enriched by a series of recommendations for key stakeholders.
A qualitative study carried out by Save the Children focusing on the dramatic situation of girls and young women on the move in Greece, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which holds valuable recommendations for a range of stakeholders (governments, authorities in charge of migration, and civil society) who have the intention and responsibility to protect girls on the move and safeguard their rights.
You Create Art-kit: handbook designed by Fondation Terre des hommes in collaboration with the International Institute for Child Rights and Development, as part of the project “You Create” supported by AMG since 2017, for minors and youths impacted by migration to plan and develop youth-led arts-projects.
You Create Project Management Guide: handbook designed by Fondation Terre des hommes in collaboration with the International Institute for Child Rights and Development, as part of the project “You Create” supported by AMG since 2017, for local operators to support minors and youths impacted by migration to develop youth-led arts-projects.
You Create Capitalization Report: a global report carried out by Fondation Terre des hommes in collaboration with the International Institute for Child Rights and Development, as part of the project “You Create” supported by AMG since 2017, to provide background information on the current state of arts-based programming for young people impacted by migration worldwide.
A global survey carried out by Save the Children on the global impact of the pandemic on children’s lives, on their access to health care, their education and protection.
The Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici has published the book “Artefice di benessere! L’arte sconfina nella cura” by the artist Daniela Morante, coordinatorof the art Workshop Cuore at the cardiac ward of the Policlinico Federico II Hospital in Neaples. The book brings together the conference proceedings of “ARTEfice di benessere!” held on November 7, 2014 in Neaples, the theoretical frame of the Cuore Workshop and the Artist’s Diary from 2010 to 2013.For more informations on the conference click here.For more informations on the Cuore Workshop click here.
Il Teatro dei Risvegli (The Theatre of Awakenings)
The Amici di Luca Association has published a book entitled “The Theatre of Awakenings, the practice of creative, curative and socially integrative theatre for post-coma patients.” This publication gathers the written theatrical experiences of the Luca De Nigris Casa dei Risvegli (literally the home of awakenings). Quoting Bergonzoni, who represents the Casa dei Risvegli, “the work done by the youth of the Gli Amici di Luca Company is re-actionary theatre, since they know how to change parameters of measurement, even those which are incalculable. They reacquire bodies, working via gestation, blossoming inch by inch, milestone by milestone, after exhausting effort. This is theatre prepared and trained by unnatural naturalness, by freeing themselves from their yokes, not coming up against walls but breaking them down, crumbling their resistance, soaring over them.”
Corporación de Arte y Poesía Prometeo has published “En el camino de la poesia”, a book that compiles some of the poetry written during the 2013 Proyecto Gulliver experience. Prometeo organizes poetry workshops for children in orphanages or enrolled in public schools in the slums of Medellin. Through reading and writing poetry, these children re-discover tolerance, integration, inclusion and worth, both of self and community.