Speak Out Sister is a Mural Art workshop. A co-creating process designed by Saadia Hussain, mural Artist from Stockholm. The participants will be led step by step through the creative process discussing, imagining and creating images. The focus will be on the female voices and stories created and shared.  We will design a collective image with all the stories gathered and shared during the process. The image will then be transferred and painted on to a public wall and made visible for a wider audience in the public space. The participants will learn about all the steps involved in the making of a mural painting. From the idea to the visible image on the wall and also explore how the visibility of their stories interact with the city.
 
The target group female artists and art educators. From the ages of 16 and older. Maximum 15 participants.
 
Saadia Hussain is born in Lahore in 1973 and at the age of 7 she along with her family fled to Stockholm/Sweden as political refugees. She grew up in Sweden with a strong longing for belonging.
Saadia is an visual artist, creative director and art activist based in Stockholm. She received her higher education from National College of Arts, Lahore specializing in printmaking and also from Konstfack, Stockholm specializing in co-creation and transformation art and design.
As a visual artist Saadia is interested in understanding, exploring and expressing stories connected to identity and belonging and co-existing in different spaces, places and contexts.
Printmaking allows her to create, experiment and express through various layers and to create marks and leave traces. Saadias solo exhibition ”Playground” 20 collagraph prints toured between 2010 – 2012 in 8 cities in Sweden.
In her role as artistic director and art activist, Saadia has led 20 collective mural art projects (2010-2014)engaging over 1500 participants with an emphasis on accessibility, democracy, participation and freedom of expression. Saadia has developed methods and led processes that allows non-professionals to enter and participate in the creative process and to co-create.
Some of her recent work: Art installation/transformation ”We are Fittja” at Fittja Pavilion/Biennale for Architecture in Venice 2014. Permanent art installation ”Expression against Oppression”  Växjö/Sweden. Liljevalchs mural painting "Young identity"(2014). Group exhibition "Who does the city belong to?" Architecture and Design Centre/Sweden(2014). Liljevalchs 100 years of arts and crafts exhibition / installation "Genuinely sacred" Sweden(2012).
 
For participation, please fill out the application form before 5th of April:
http://www.darb1718.com/mural-workshop-participation-form/
 
The workshop is taking place in partnership with Re:orient:
Re:Orient was founded in 1993 based in Stockholm, Sweden. Throughout the year we put on concerts, performances, lectures and seminars where we plunge into contemporary issues. Re:Orients main focus has always been the Middle East/North Africa/Turkey, working internationally as well as with the minority groups based in Sweden. Since 2011 Re:Orient also runs a cultural house in the southern tip of Sweden, Malmö.