Universal Childhoods?: What does it mean to be a child in the Colombian Amazon? What does it mean to be a child for you?

Come and learn about what it means to be a child in the Colombian Amazon Rainforest from the very children who live there, through an exhibition of their drawings, photographs and descriptions of their everyday lives. Challenge yourself to think about what it means to be a child through an anthropological perspective and whether being a child means the same everywhere. What does being a child mean for you? Take part in arts-based activities to reflect on your own everyday experiences whatever stage of life you are in.
This exhibition and workshop is based on Sasha Flatau’s doctoral research in Anthropology about children and families living in the Colombian Amazon Rainforest. As part of this research, Sasha ran art-based workshops with children living in an indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon where she was conducting 18-months of fieldwork. In this event, families and children will be encouraged to reflect on the drawings and photography of Amazonian children to think about and discuss the meaning of childhood. The idea behind this exhibition is that visiting children and families will be able to see from the photos, drawing and explanations, how families and children from the indigenous Amazonian community where Sasha did her doctoral research, might answer questions about what it means to be a child, differently from them, encouraging them to adopt an anthropological understanding of childhood.