Mural therapy

ORGANISERS of the Tivoli Gardens Mural Project say they have collaborated with German organisation Meeting of Styles to bring 100 artists from across the world to the gritty west Kingston community in December, as part of a continued thrust to heal the wounds of past trauma and rebrand the neighbourhood as a vibrant hub of authentic Jamaican culture. “A big part of what we are trying to do is unearth the aspects of the community that a lot of people don’t look at,” Oneil Coke, one of the main organisers, told the Jamaica Observer last Friday. “More time people look at all sort of bad things, maybe that’s why the name Mother of all Garrisons was achieved. But we have a rich sports history and we have a rich music history. When you reason with the elders, you get to realise that it’s not just a garrison. We are just trying to change that outlook because all of that is mindset,” added Coke. Meeting of Styles states on its website that it is an international network of graffiti artists and aficionados that began in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1997. Brought together and inspired by a passion for graffiti, Meeting of Styles...