Food brings people together. Given this simple fact, on Friday the 28th of June we, the participants at the Victoria Summer Camp, organised a picnic in front of Victoria Culture House (ro. Casa de cultură). We wanted to meet and engage with the local community. We wanted to hear their own stories of Victoria. In the days before the picnic, we went through the city and invited the people we met to join and bring more of their friends or neighbours.
By creating a social media event and printing invitations to give away for the Victorians, we created the perfect opportunity and pretext to start talking with them. We wanted to make them a bit more relaxed around us and to get to know them better. The result of the picnic was a little party that took place in a green area which isn’t usually used. Many children and young people came and started talking with the participants at the summer camp. We heard some new stories about Victoria, heard new versions of the same stories or just ate some good watermelon.
Food brings people together. Given this simple fact, on Friday the 28th of June we, the participants at the Victoria Summer Camp, organised a picnic in front of Victoria Culture House (ro. Casa de cultură). We wanted to meet and engage with the local community. We wanted to hear their own stories of Victoria. In the days before the picnic, we went through the city and invited the people we met to join and bring more of their friends or neighbours.
By creating a social media event and printing invitations to give away for the Victorians, we created the perfect opportunity and pretext to start talking with them. We wanted to make them a bit more relaxed around us and to get to know them better. The result of the picnic was a little party that took place in a green area which isn’t usually used. Many children and young people came and started talking with the participants at the summer camp. We heard some new stories about Victoria, heard new versions of the same stories or just ate some good watermelon.