HUMAN 2026 // Palestinian Children’s Mental Health Awareness - Art as Healing

Name: HUMAN 2026 // Palestinian Children’s Mental Health Awareness - Art as Healing
Start: 2026-03-02T23:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-08T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Cinemateket i Oslo

Schedule

Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 pm to Sun, 08 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cinemateket i Oslo | Oslo, OS

This exhibition presents stories and illustrations created through psychosocial work with Palestinian children in Bethlehem. The installation explores how art and storytelling support children living under conflict. Visitors are invited to reflect on resilience, rights, and the emotional worlds of young people growing up amid violence.
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Children and adolescents in Palestine are facing an escalating mental-health crisis due to exposure to violence, displacement, and long-term structural oppression. The psychosocial impacts—trauma symptoms, chronic stress, disrupted development, and intergenerational transmission of distress—are now widely documented. Yet children’s own voices, coping strategies, and modes of resilience remain under-represented in mainstream discourse.
This exhibition builds on the work of Anar, a community-based organisation in Bethlehem that strengthens the psychological well-being and resilience of children affected by conflict. Anar uses participatory, creative, and rights-based approaches to help children’s express emotions, process fear, and build pathways toward safety and hope.
Exhibition overview:
This book-based art exhibition highlights children’s creative expression as a form of psychosocial support. It presents selected stories and illustrations from Anar’s forthcoming book, offering an intimate window into the inner worlds of Palestinian children, their fears, dreams, and coping mechanisms.
The exhibition aims to situate art within a broader mental-health and human-rights framework. It presents children’s works alongside contextual information about psychosocial support in Palestine, inviting festival visitors to reflect on the ways in which creativity functions as a lifeline for children living under chronic threat.
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Where can you see the exhibition during the HUMAN IDFF ?
The exhibition will be installed on the second floor of Cinemateket
This exhibition is being held in collaboration with Anar – Palestinian organisation supporting psychosocial interventions for children in Bethlehem, Solidarity Hub – Department of Psychology, UiO, Mental Health and Human Rights Info (MHHRI) and HUMAN IDFF.