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What
are the goals of the 1001 Drawings Project?
To affirm and celebrate, in a highly visible way, people “armed with a disarming intelligence”—their presence, their contributions, and their importance to the social fabric of humanity—by making a simple gesture, something that anyone, including people with disabilities, can do. To remind us that in many places around the world, people made vulnerable by intellectual disabilities are far from welcome and far from included. |
What
does it mean to talk about “intellectual disabilities”
in 2008?
People
who live with intellectual disabilities are still often unloved
or excluded from many communities around the world, when they are
not simply denied the right to live altogether.
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Why
drawings?
“Taking the time to draw people, no matter who they are, is one way I can acknowledge their importance in my eyes and to welcome them into my heart, just as they are.” I am convinced, as are many other people, that it is with a change in our attitude— the way we look at things, the way we see life as a whole and all living creatures— that real change can begin.” Read
more: You don’t need to be an artist to be involved! Simply pick up a pencil and trace someone’s picture with gentle strokes, then make the image more vibrant by adding colour to it.
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Why tracing? In contrast to seeking an artistic creation, 1001 Drawings involves rather tracing the image of an individual, a realistic image, beyond the preconceived and idealized notions that people may have. Tracing is an activity that virtually anyone can undertake, from small children to the most aged. Many people living with disabilities love to trace drawings, and we strongly encourage their involvement! And if tracing is a problem, you can always simply colour in the printed copies of the model designs that you have downloaded. If you think that “tracing is for babies,” by all means send in freehand drawings. Read
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What do we mean when we say that a person is “living with” or that a person “has” an intellectual disability? The
term is meant to be broad and inclusive, including certainly those people
who have lived with such a disability from infancy. But it could also
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Understanding
Intellectual Disability
Intellectual disabilities deprive people of some aspect or aspects of their intellectual faculties. In principle, if you were to lose one part of your intelligence today, you would still have the same qualities and the same faults. If you are a patient individual, you would still be patient.
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NewsBites … Thank you, 1001 times, to Connie fromL'Arche Syracuse, to Aimee from L'Arche Homefire, to Andreanne and the Jouets d’Arc-en-ciel (Rainbow Toys), to Perrine from L’Arche Agape, and to Patrice from L’Arche Mauricie for sending us photographs.
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…About 1001 Drawings Thanks to the involvement of Persona Très Grata, , a number of blogs conducted in French have extended the invitation to participate in 1001 Drawings. An article article about the project has also been published on the Handicap Infos site. To learn
more about the people behind Persona
Très Grata, read their blog. It is a very richly
textured website, in which people living with intellectual disabilities
speak for themselves, and which recounts the many ways we can connect
with them as they interrogate us and, often, turn our worlds upside-down.
This blog is another way of trying to understand what is happening to
us and to them in these relationships in order to explore and express
it in new and original ways. |
Groups, organizations, schools, institutions and media are invited to become partners in 1001 Drawings!
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