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Postcards from Home

European exchange – connecting across the continent


Amateo invites citizens from across Europe to connect
through the creative exchange of ‘Postcards from Home
NOVEMBER 2020 – OCTOBER 2021

WHAT HAS MADE YOU FEEL AT HOME RECENTLY?


The first postcard: ‘Home is…’

Sharing what home has meant for you currently through words and images

The second postcard: ‘Home was…’

Sharing a memory of home (an image, story, smell that brings back a person or place that meant home to you) in the past

The third postcard: ‘Home will be…’

Sharing your vision of home for the future


VIEW ‘Postcards from Home’ GALERRY


Creative Workshops
NOVEMBER 2020

THREE workshops include Lockdown Portraiture, Textile Landscapes and Postcard Journal Bookbinding broadcast live from Galway (Ireland), European Capital of Culture 2020

Creative workshop
DECEMBER 2020

Traditional Lithuanian ‘Sodai’ craft

CREATIVE WORKSHOP
MARCH 2021

Indo-Persian Miniature Painting

Creative workshop
JANUARY 2021

Picture and found object sonnets

CREATIVE WORKSHOP
APRIL 2021

Cut-out Animation (smart phone/tablet)


LIVE EVENT

Postcards from Home contributions from across Europe, were to be brought together in the three-day workshop in Maribor (Slovenia). The live event could not go-ahead Spring and Autumn 2021 due to Covid-19 restrictions, but we encourage ongoing sharing.

CONNECT to the Unexpected


Take Part

Step 1

Share your postcards….
Download instructions in your language 

Step 2

Join the creative workshops online

Step 3

Continue your exchange of postcards.

Share your results with us comms@amateo.org via Facebook (See terms)


Postcards from Home project is supported by funding from Culture of Solidarity programme led by European Cultural Foundation


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