Why I ask strangers to draw their memories

Name: Why I ask strangers to draw their memories
Uploaded: 2019-05-22T18:08:22Z
Duration: 8 min 32 s
Description: For her social art project, Seize Your Moments, artist Janne Willems approaches strangers and asks them to draw beautiful moments from the past week on postcards. So far, Willems has collected nearly 11,000 drawings from 30 different countries. In her endearing talk, Willems shares a moving selection of intensely personal treasured moments from her travels.

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Janne Willems |

TEDxGroningen

• November 2014

For her social art project, Seize Your Moments, artist Janne Willems approaches strangers and asks them to draw beautiful moments from the past week on postcards. So far, Willems has collected nearly 11,000 drawings from 30 different countries. In her endearing talk, Willems shares a moving selection of intensely personal treasured moments from her travels.

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Janne Willems

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Janne Willems is the founder of the international social art project Seize Your Moments.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxGroningen, an independent event.