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The ART for AID Exhibition is designed around children and imagination. We believe imagination is the foundation of every creative process. Therefore the Zuiderkerk location is truly the most delightful and inspiring location to host this special exhibition.
Our wish is to take you back to moments in your own childhood as well as to invite you to consider matters that confront young children today. For childhood is, after all, not only the start of life; it stays with us,follows us, and continues to survive as a realm to which we return.Perhaps, moreover, the artists are right, and returning purposefully to it from time to time can inspire us to continue to grow.
As grown-ups, we frequently look back on our childhood as the most carefree and inventive time of our lives, and, as parents, we strive to encourage that sense of wonder and joy in our own children. School and primary education exalt ordinary pleasures that stimulate a child's curiosity and imagination. This exhibtion takes you back to this place.
On the ground floor is a delightfully chorographied collection of objects, sounds and images that represent childhood. This installation is composed of trees and a swing in a familiar childhood place like a courtyard.
This charming, lyrically place is a meditation on the comforts of childhood and imagination, a celebration of the many chances a chlldhas to be enlivened by his or her own colorful observations. This place offers children the space and opportunity to use their imagination as much as possible in an «unfinished» world and allows them to create their own world through their own imagination.
Above the trees is a cloudy sky called imagination. Every cloud symbolizes an idea, a thought, a concept, an inspiration formed during these peaceful and carefree moments of one's childhood. It will connect to the upper gallery of the Zuiderkerk location ; a space dedicated to the creation, where the art works will be exhibited.
«Do not insist that your child see the world through the eyes of an adult. Follow your child and see where his imagination will take you.»
Frederic M da Silva - Exhibition Curator
ZUIDERKERK
The Zuiderkerk («Southern Church») was built in the early 17th century as the first Dutch Protestant Church. The church, built in the Dutch Renaissance style, has a magnificent tower with a carillon and is situated in the Nieuwmarkt area of Amsterdam Centre. Since 1988 the Zuiderkerk serves as a municipalinformation centre, with regularly changing exhibitions as well as a permanent exhibition which features a scale model of Amsterdam as it is envisioned in 2020.
Since June 2006, the church also houses the «Wall of Fame», an homage toDutch celebrities who have made a positive contribution to society, such as charitable work.
The church is open to visitors Monday through Saturday. The tower, which offers stunning views of the surrounding area, is open to visitors Tuesdays through Sundays during the summer months. The carillon plays on Sundays between 4pm and 5pm
How to go there
Metro/tram
metro 53, 54, sneltram 5: station 'Nieuwmarkt'
tram 4, 16, 24, 25: station Dam
tram 9, 14: station Waterlooplein
Car
Parking garage
Stadhuis/Muziektheater,
Amstel 1 en in P1 Waterlooplein,
Valkenburgerstraat 238
Address
Zuiderkerkhof 72
1011 WB Amsterdam
E-mail: zuiderkerk@dro.amsterdam.nl
www.zuiderkerk.amsterdam.nl
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