Today we went to the Kangemi Youth Centre with the plan to get to know the students. We had prepared a drawing lesson, with the plan to let the children draw themselves and their most important friends, family, hobbies, food etc. The objective was to jumpstart a disussion about the life of the students. Because we didn’t want to make this cultural exchange a one-way street we also joined the children and drew things important to us.
Drawing materials are on short supply in Kangemi, so we brought a lot of crayons (supplied by the awesome population of Pietzing at the Simssee) and paper.
You can see some of the beautiful paintings of students grade 4, 5, 6 & 7 here:
We ended each of the four lessons with a collective song, accompanied on the Gitalele by our one and only Julius Gut. The older classes also got a small introduction into perspectival drawing inspired by our former teacher Peter Schmid.
Kangemi Youth Centre Architecture 