Open Book: a "mobile bookshop"
Four neighborhoods away from the "Street Caricatures" team, more artists paint excerpts from the books and writings of Che Guevara, Abdullah al-Baradouni, Gandhi and Mahmoud Darwish on the walls of Kuwait Hospital, near Change Square. Young Tammam al-Shaybani and four other painters launched the "Open Book" campaign 10 weeks ago. Every week the campaign chooses a wall and announces a meeting time over social media. The next day, young men and women gather to create murals.
What is new in this initiative is that the words are more important than the image. The campaign is a platform for reading, a "mobile bookshop" to urge people to read and acquire books. Passersby are visually stimulated to read brief excerpts from writers, philosophers and well-known figures as they walk or stop their cars at traffic lights.
"We try very hard to choose the streets that have the most traffic and activity, or where cars and buses constantly stop. For instance, cars stop at traffic lights for three minutes every day at the Baghdad Roundabout. I think about how many people read the murals closely, either sitting in their cars or from behind the bus windows, and then decide to go to the bookstore to purchase the book. It's a delightful feeling," Shaybani told Al-Monitor.
Four neighborhoods away from the "Street Caricatures" team, more artists paint excerpts from the books and writings of Che Guevara, Abdullah al-Baradouni, Gandhi and Mahmoud Darwish on the walls of Kuwait Hospital, near Change Square. Young Tammam al-Shaybani and four other painters launched the "Open Book" campaign 10 weeks ago. Every week the campaign chooses a wall and announces a meeting time over social media. The next day, young men and women gather to create murals.
What is new in this initiative is that the words are more important than the image. The campaign is a platform for reading, a "mobile bookshop" to urge people to read and acquire books. Passersby are visually stimulated to read brief excerpts from writers, philosophers and well-known figures as they walk or stop their cars at traffic lights.
"We try very hard to choose the streets that have the most traffic and activity, or where cars and buses constantly stop. For instance, cars stop at traffic lights for three minutes every day at the Baghdad Roundabout. I think about how many people read the murals closely, either sitting in their cars or from behind the bus windows, and then decide to go to the bookstore to purchase the book. It's a delightful feeling," Shaybani told Al-Monitor.
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