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Football, friendship and forgiveness

This collection of art and writing emerged from watching ‘Rammat Gammat’, a short film by Ajitpal Singh. The movie is a delicate musing on friendship centred around the experience of inequality and a pair of football shoes. 

The children - several football players among them - loved the film and in the discussion afterwards, they spoke of friendship surviving mistakes,  because the film is about forgiveness. 
For the art exercise, focussing on the idea of ‘play’, the children wrote short poems using the chinquapin format,  a poetic form that employs a 5-line pattern. The spare use of words that this format encourages allowed the children to play with words and meaningfully express the things they like to do as play, and how that makes them feel. 

The artwork shows them as they imagine themselves at play – the mood, the movement, and the experience of beauty that play brings. 

Football
Messi Ronaldo
Scoring running striking
Football is a feeling
Play! 

Book
Reading, learning
Imagining dreaming thinking
Books open different feelings
Read

Ball
Shoes, shoot
Thinking passing defending
Makes me feel strong
Goal! 

Running
Park, feet
Breathing tiring falling
Makes me feel healthy
Moving

I painted myself as Leonardo here. I want to be as professional a football player as him. And I drew the black background as night because after playing all day I want to play at night as well

In Love with Football by Nawid

I painted myself as Leonardo here. I want to be as professional a football player as him. And I drew the black background as night because after playing all day I want to play at night as well

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The feeling that I have in wearing my traditional clothes is as special for me as flying in the sky and seeing the rainbow

Special Feelings by Labina

The feeling that I have in wearing my traditional clothes is as special for me as flying in the sky and seeing the rainbow

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I painted my sky in green colour because it is a colour of peace for me, with stars and the moon. And I drew myself with red shoes as it reminds me of my childhood wearing my red shoes with my red hairband.

Red Shoes by Zoha

I painted my sky in green colour because it is a colour of peace for me, with stars and the moon. And I drew myself with red shoes as it reminds me of my childhood wearing my red shoes with my red hairband.

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Whenever I read books I feel that I am on another planet around the moon and clouds.

See the World by Sediqaa

Whenever I read books I feel that I am on another planet around the moon and clouds.

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I love the winter season so much that I even painted myself as a snowman. And I love the greenness as well. I want both of them to be there together but it is impossible so I drew my imagination to express my expectations from the impossibilities!

Expectations from Impossibilities by Resalat

I love the winter season so much that I even painted myself as a snowman. And I love the greenness as well. I want both of them to be there together but it is impossible so I drew my imagination to express my expectations from the impossibilities!

© Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

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