I Love Maghdouche !!!

Here is a little movie about Maghdouche showing norwegian friends supporting our Dignity Project and Maghdouche. This movie is composed of photos that were taken during our Market day in August 2008. We hope you like it !

I love Maghdouche... Who doesn't ?!!!

Among all the things that I like in Maghdouche, what I like most is its people.

Hard workers, good hearted, straight forward, very generous... but most of all, they become one as soon as they face any difficulty... One hand, one voice, one will and one heart...

People of Maghdouche, may you stay safe wherever you are in the world and may you come back.

Maghdouche is waiting for you !!!

I love Maghdouche from Denmark !

I opened my email box after coming back from a hard day at work...... I couldn't but smile.

In my box, there was an email from a painter from Denmark. Her name is Anne lildholdt Jensen, a very talented and dynamic artist that we love so much. She has been into our blogg and read about the art lottery so she decided to participate by offering the lottery a watercolour.

Here she is, holding the " I love Maghdouche " board in one hand and the offered aquarelle painting called " Slimane " in the other hand.

Anne, we thank you so much. This melted our heart !!!

I Love Maghdouche

Kaare Stang, norwegian art historian and the writer of the book "Art Deco in Norway" was there supporting our weekend market. He was our shop keeper and was serving refreshments..... Thank you Kaare !!!

We Love Maghdouche

We got support from the norwegian writer and poet Per Olav Kaldestad and his wife, they came all the way from the west coast of Norway to our place together with Rolf and they enjoyed the market.
Vi fikk støtte fra forfatteren Per Olav Kaldestad og kona, de kom fra Stord på Vestlandet sammen med Rolf.

Art Lottery - Kunstlotteri

We got to find ideas to finance the atelier of our beloved Dignity project. People have offered sewing machines, looms and different equipments but to ship these heavy things to Maghdouche would cost us more than buying new ones.That was where the idea of an art lottery saw the light.
Vi trenger ideer for å finansiere arbeidsrommene i vårt Dignity prosjekt. Folk har tilbudt oss symaskiner, vever og andre større ting, men å få transportert dette til Maghdouche vil koste oss mer enn om vi kan skaffe rene penger og kjøpe det vi trenger der.
Det var da vi kom på ideen om et kunstlotteri...

Artists were positive. The first artwork we got was from Jon Olav Helle: a beautiful graphic landscape.

Kunstnere var positive til ideen og det første kunstverket vi fikk var fra grafikeren Jon Olav Helle

Rolf Monsen from Bergen offered a little charming painting from the exhibition he was opening in the gallery.

Rolf Monsen fra Bergen har gitt oss et vakkert og sjarmerende maleri fra utstillingen som åpnet 2 august.

Liv Kristin Espelien participated with one of her ceramic sculptures: The Frog Prince.
Keramikeren Liv Kristin Espelien har gitt en av sine flotte skulpturer: Froskeprinsen

TrondE (http://www.tronde.no/) offered a collography print and the painter Ole kristen Solberg gave an beautiful watercolour.

TrondE har gitt et collografi trykk og maleren Ole Kristen Solberg ga en vakker akvarell.

All our respect goes to these artists and to all the norwegian people who are reacting so positive to our project by offering generously and by giving us the trust that the money that we will collect will be used in the best and proper way possible.
The lottery will continue till the 5th. of december (our gallery's 5th. anniversary) and the draw will take place then. You can see the artworks in our gallery.

Med all respekt for kunstnere som har bidratt til lotteriet og til innbyggere i Løten og omegn som har vist velvilje og støttet vårt prosjekt. Og som har vist oss tillit til at innsamlede penger vil gå i sin helhet til Maghdouche og vil brukt på best mulig måte.

Lotteriet vil gå fram til 5 desember 2008 og kunsten som er innlevert kan sees i galleriet

I Love Maghdouche

Here is Anne, she was like a big smile all day long helping Mona with the coffee.
Her er Anne, hun var et stort smil hele dagen og hun hjalp Mona med kaffen.