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Picture of the Week 17-06-2015





(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

"Willy Bangsund is a local legend and wrestling coach in Sør-Varanger, who many in the local community believe should have long ago received a medal for the best peace work in the Barents region. He is known throughout the region as a trainer and organizer of countless wrestling competitions and intercultural meetings for Norwegian, Russian and Finnish children and young people, and he has crossed the northern borders so many times that he himself has come out of counting.

Willy loves to chat with new acquaintances and is always curious about other peoples cultures and history. 'That's what really is at the heart of peacebuilding, and it's so insanely important to pass this on to the kids.'

Willy took us to the Norwegian-Russian border at Storskog – the only legal border crossing between Norway and Russia – where Willy is pocket-known. Since we were honored to spend a day with a man who can best be described as a superman from reality, we had prepared a mantle of reddish red berries of appropriate dimensions. ”

Norwegian-Finnish artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen, who among others are behind the photo series Eyes as Big as Plates, is working on a new artistic documentation project entitled Time is a ship that does not cast anchor – stories from the New Churches Hospital. The project will be implemented over a period of three years in connection with the construction of New Churches Hospital, and will portray the people who helped shape the Barents region in an area where multiculturalism and ethnicity have been identity markers throughout history. Involvement and interaction with the local community is the driving force behind the project, which will result in a book of portraits and stories from the contributors and as exhibitions in the new hospital building when completed in 2017.
The process can be followed along the way on the site www.newkirkeneshopital.com

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