Musrara, the Naggar School of Art and Society, Jerusalem (https://www.musrara.org) together with Wisdom of the Elders Inc (WOTE), Portland 

(https://www.wisdomoftheelders.org), received a grant through the Communities Connecting Heritage (CCH) program to carry out a cultural heritage project in partnership, which will explore the power of cultural arts for healing trauma and strengthening cultural identity by varied acts of storytelling.

 

The initial plan was a six month online virtual exchange program, in addition to an
in-person group exchange visit of groups from Naggar School and WOTE. 

The program was to conclude with a mutual culminating exhibition in June 2020
during the annual MusraraMix Festival, Jerusalem. Later, the same exhibition was to transit itself to a Portland venue.

In March 2020, following Naggar School's team trip to Oregon and Washington State, due to Covid19 eruption, the project was forced to change its structure to a strictly online form and our Hero was now forced to undergo a transformation.

 

This is the outcome of our online virtual exchange program of The Hero's Journey for Transformation project.

 

Communities Connecting HeritageSM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State
with funding provided by the U.S. Government and administered by World Learning.