An event in the form of workshop held for two sessions in Palestinian Red Crescent Society and Eltiqa Gallery to energies and incite young artistic talents to think and produce artistically. Dozens of promising artists and artists benefited from it, during which they produced works of various techniques.
Participants:
- Mohamed Al Dabous
- Myssa Yussif
- May Murad
- Ahmed Abu Nasir (Tarzan)
- Mohamed Abu Nasir (Arab)
- Mohamed Abusal
- Asma’ Quaider
- Ismaeel Dahlan
- Mohamed Al-Hawajri
- Maha Al Daya
- Mohamed Al Haj
- Nabail Abu Ghanima
- Salem Awd
- Mosab Abusal
- Abed Ra’oof Ajouri
- Rukia Khamis Al Lulu
- Rasha Abu Zayed
- Raed Issa
- Mohammed Al Halabi
- Mayssa Al Baedaweel
- Ali Al Shiek
- Dina Matter
- Abdullah Al Ruzi
In the Shrine of Reality and Beauty Man Finds Himself
The sufferings and pains of soul are sometimes caused by human existence at every time and in every place. Sometimes they are attributed to political, economic, social and cultural reasons, in addition to accumulations of events throughout times and regimes.
Art is a reflection of common living conditions in any society and an expression of the psychological condition of the human being. It is still a basic material which takes us to thoughts, dreams and ambitions of the human being, and being far from beauty and creation. Being indulgent in a routine life, in which we only do some typical tasks is one of the pressing and psychological suffering factors. This is why art is one of the psychological fields. It is proved that mind, thought, passion and behavior are moved by the brain and there is a strong positive relationship between environmental, psychological and social factors and its biological impact on the nervous system.
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme was a leader in introducing a new attitude in the Palestinian society when it was able to take mental health from its theoretical framework to a psycho-social and human rights concept. Accordingly GCMHP became closer to the society using its tools and was keen to be stuck and integrated in its community base with all its problems and pains and all what it has from means of expression, thinking of its pains and hopes.
Because psychiatry was one of the most creative and close to the human passion, and very close to literature and art, the interest of art and psychiatry in the human being is the same with all its changes and amazing wealth. Sometimes it may be granting maximum action and creation which culminate in great successes and sometimes it becomes a prey in dark corridors.
Through imagination, mental health can be seen. Psychodrama for example is one of the expression therapy methods. It depends on one of these two principles. First, artistic expression and performance have preventive health impact and they play a role in recovering from mental diseases and disorders. This is applied to all kinds of therapy by different arts. Second, artistic expression is full of symbolism that creates a kind of expression and communication not created by the common language of communication.
Art therapy is not a kind of therapy used to be directed towards the problem, but by practicing the health behavior and avoiding the morbid behavior.
As we know many of the cognitive psychologists were inspired by the paintings of Pablo Picasso. Dr. Ahmed Okasha said ” The human soul appears sometimes as a box of evils with all its ugliness and sometimes it appears at the top of brilliance and creative generosity which enrich the human heritage. Here we find a close relationship between art and literature in general and mental health. Art contributed to the discovery of the depth and secrets of the human being and it is a point of illumination in the mental health. Thus was Oedipus and Electra complexes from the Greek Theatre, Sadism, and Masochism, after the author Sakheer Mazouk.
Some authors excelled at anatomizing the human being and building his compound mysterious components on the paper to make them permanent creative documents revealing the secrets and mysteries of the human beings.
As we at Gaza Community Mental Health Programme believe that both art and mental health have a human message to convey and as every message has its own language, we chose to use these means and languages to externalize our thoughts, other human issues, the scientific language of mental health and the international artistic language to be understood by all people and engraved in the human’s memory and his history.