Handmade Art by the Women Artists of Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory

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Handmade Art by the Women Artists Of Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory

In collaboration with The Fine Arts Major Organization

College of Technology, University of San Augustin, Gen Luna St, Iloilo, Philippines 5000

Storytelling is a powerful tool for healing and assertion.  Women tell stories as a means of gathering parts of themselves back to one piece.  Hilway ​ (Freedom)​ is a  process of psycho-social support, where women exercise their own sense of freedom navigating in a tight small crowded prison space through stories of objects.  Women recreated a new self with new colors to light up their life in the darkest times.

​The prison as a creative space becomes alive with the living narratives of human stories through objects, a space of compassion with overflowing bodies sharing the politics of tolerance, compassion and love.​

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