Last December, when the winter was just getting started, we executed a project for the Toneelmakerij to promote the theatre play Kees de jongen. Just to refresh your memories Kees de jongen is a theatre play based on a famous Dutch book for children about a poor boy, Kees, who had a very vivid fantasy and sees the world in a very playful way.
In addition, besides promoting the play, we worked together with a primary school in the centre of Amsterdam. This is a perfect example of a community project to give something back to the society, using GreenGraffiti® in a different way.
The school was close to the Westerkerk and to the Theo Thijssen, museum, who is the writher of the book.They had organized a competition and the children designed templates expressing their own interpretations of the dream world of the little boy Kees. The top ten designs where made into actual GreenGraffiti® templates and where sprayed around the school, the Westerkerk and the museum.
Because of the weather and the oncoming snowfall the project got cancelled a couple of times, so when the time was finally there that we could execute the project together with the school children, they almost could not believe that the time was finally there.
Over excited, some a little bit timid waiting to see what we where going to do with al the weird tools and equipments, we started the project on a rainy thursday morning, but fortunately no snowfall.
The project started on the schoolyard where al the children gathered around us and where curious to see what was going to happen. The ten winners where lucky because there price included helping us spraying the GreenGraffiti’s.
They needed a little help spraying their designs since the high water pressure sprayer was almost as large as some of the children. However, with a little bit of assistance, the GreenGraffiti’s turned out beautifully.
We left the schoolyard with their teacher and the ten children to spray some more GreenGraffiti’s next to the Westerkerk and the little museum. So when you visit Amsterdam in the next couple of weeks, make sure that you don’t skip this part of the city to have a look at their designs.
The project lasted the whole morning, leaving the winners and us covered with water and dirt but proud of their winning works!
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