We’ve been friends with Roxy and
\nKids Arts a few years back, and we’ve followed their collaborative arts
\nprojects. Although the pandemic seems to have stopped time, Roxy and Kids Arts,
\na project run by visual artists Roxana En\u00e9 and her son, Alexander,
\ntogether with Roxana Elena Petrescu, con-founder and vice-president of the Roxy
\nand Kids Arts Association, have had their hands full. Roxana Elena Petrescu
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We’re talking about the Fashion
\nRevolution Week campaign. Together with Alexander En\u00e9, we were invited
\nto attend Fashion Revolution alongside other fashion designers and consumers
\nfrom Romania, as part of a campaign running in April. Fashion Revolution is a
\nglobal movement held in over 60 countries that started in response to a tragedy:
\nin Bangladesh, a building collapsed, killing thousands of fashion workers
\ninside. A lot of women died back then, over a thousand people, and that
\ngenerated a global movement saying ‘enough is enough’. We live in a world where
\nhaving has become more important than being. It doesn’t hurt asking who makes
\nthese clothes, whether they are made responsibly, if materials are polluting or
\nnot. Roxy and Kids Arts have been making efforts to adapt to a sustainable way
\nof life. Part of the things we do, outside manufacturing workshops, is to turn
\nold and second-hand clothes, especially stained clothes, into works of art, by reinterpreting
\nthem in painting workshops. <\/p>\n
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In turn, Alexander En\u00e9 told us more. <\/p>\n
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It’s not enough to just turn materials into art. It’s really important
\nto educate people as well. For instance, Roxy and Kids Arts has been hosting
\ncreative workshops for children, both in Germany as well as in Romania, using
\nfruit and vegetable leftovers, which usually end up in the garbage, as work
\ninstruments. Sustainable living also means recycling and reusing as much as
\npossible, thus supporting the production of sustainable goods and cutting food
\nand material waste. Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle! The 4 Rs underlie the
\nconcept of sustainable living. <\/p>\n
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Artist Roxana En\u00e9 has been monitoring how Roxy and Kids Arts revolution
\nis enjoying recognition at Fashion Revolution. <\/p>\n
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I was really impressed with the event. Everything worked out great, and
\nI wasn’t even there. I got a wonderful piece of news, that Fashion Revolution got
\nin contact with us and were interested in what we do. And it was perfect timing,
\nbecause we were just in the middle of turning clothing into canvasses. There’s
\nnothing extraordinary about it, if you come to think of it. You just take a bag,
\na leather jacket, all sorts of clothing and you paint them. We didn’t hold out
\nmuch hope for 2021, but we were contacted by Fashion Revolution Romania.<\/p>\n
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Speaking about her team, Roxana En\u00e9 also expressed her excitement.<\/p>\n
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Things went very smoothly. My son, Roxana and I made a remarkable
\nperformance, and presented a beautiful canvas, a bag we painted and a few pairs
\nof shoes. It was very beautiful. I’ve seen the pictures and I’m impressed! <\/p>\n
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We learned that Roxy and Kids Arts has a new prototype of reusable cotton
\nface masks, which can also be worn as a headdress accessory. Once she got to Germany,
\nRoxana En\u00e9 found out that canvas masks are now forbidden, and in Romania cotton
\nmasks were already in production. Last year, in partnership with another
\nRomanian association working with teenagers with disabilities, Roxy and Kids
\nArts started printing the works created in the workshops on cloth bags, made
\n100% from cotton, and they already have a large number of orders from Germany
\nand Israel. <\/p>\n
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The association’s activity has also been praised in Germany. Roxana En\u00e9: <\/p>\n
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\nHere, in Germany, everything went slow last year. We
\nwere supposed to implement the project ‘Reality 2020: the Mask’. It was a cool
\nproject, children painted masks outdoors. We worked with 10 children and the
\nschool was delighted with our project, that they decided to find a workaround
\ndue to pandemic restrictions. So we submitted a handbook to school teachers and
\nthey taught the Roxy and kids arts method in schools. Children ended up
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