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Janne Willems

Seize your moments

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Seize your moments is an international social art project by Janne Willems (1982), who collects beautiful moments from all over the world in order to discover what happiness looks like across the globe.

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Seize your moments is an international social art project by Janne Willems (1982), who collects beautiful moments from all over the world in order to discover what happiness looks like across the globe. The Netherlands-based trailblazer walks up to strangers and asks everyday people to draw a beautiful moment from last week. They cheer up after such a question and start talking to each other. Since 2010 this world traveler collected nearly 8000 beautiful moments in 30 countries. In order to do this over 500 people helped her.

Janne will talk about her latest adventures in the USA. A country split up by racial problems and the turmoil of upcoming elections that result in a lot of impressive stories.

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