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In Summer
2000 the Mora brothers with artist Lyver Chavez,
working as the Mora Group, took part in various community projects in
Edinburgh as part of a cultural exchange programme. With a group of school-children
they made a 'Bus to the Future' which was part of the
exhibition 'Old Town, New Town' held at Edinburgh's City Art Gallery between
October 2000 and January 2001.
At various dates
in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Filiberto Mora has worked on different projects
in the Edinburgh community with artist Joanna Boyce of Creative
ArtWorks, Edinburgh.
August
2001 in Havana Filiberto Mora gave papier-maché workshops
to Mary Walters of Arts City, Edinburgh as an integral
part of her Churchill Travelling Fellowship, working with her and her
daughter Rosie to make pieces based on Mora proto-types. He also led a
week of workshops with a group of Havana school children with Walters
as assistant.
January
2002 Filiberto Mora designed three Carnival
‘farolas’ and made them with a group of children
at Edinburgh’s Royal Mile Primary School as part of an Arts City
multi-media project organised as part of the Edinburgh’s summer
2002 multi--ethnic Edinburgh Mela Festival.
August
2003 Filiberto Mora will be working with Lyver Chavez on a project
led by artist Joanna Boyce of Creative ArtWorks for the 2003 Edinburgh
Mela. They will make the front artwork for the Children’s
Tent and run workshops with local schools and at the festival
itself.
November 2001: As part of the Si Cuba! Festival
Filiberto Mora was artist-in-residence at Kelvingrove Museum
for a three week period, offering weekend ‘living workshops’
where museum visitors came and watched him at work and had a try at papier-maché
making.
November 2001: Filiberto Mora also did a week of workshops with
five Glasgow primary schools in the Museum under the auspices of
Anne Wallace, Glasgow Museums Education officer. In January 2002 he did
three full one-day workshops in three Strathclyde primary schools on the
theme of the Edward Lear poem ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’
using small empty Irn Bru bottles.
January
2002: three one-day workshops with different community and special
needs groups in Glasgow making animals out of Irn-Bru bottles.
November
2002 Filiberto Mora worked with David Swift, artist-in-residence
at Lynebank Hospital, Dumfermline, and with artist Suzi
Gasparini with special needs community groups in Fife.
January and
October to December 2002 on two separate Scottish visits Filiberto Mora
worked in weekly sessions with children-in-care in Glasgow as part of
the museums education programme.
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