4th International Project Meeting - PANEVEZYS CORRECTION HOUSE Lithuania

PANEVEZYS CORRECTION HOUSE

ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT “TASTE OF FREEDOM”

September 2014 – January 2015


SEPTEMBER 2014

AFTERNOON EVENT “TEA DRINKING TRADITIONS”

• Herbalist Mrs. Dalė Petraitienė and Mr. Antanas Skindzera,

master of tea drinking traditions, offered their help in organizing

this event. • They talked about tea drinking

ceremonies, when various specific texts are read in order to stop thinking ant keeping mind

„here and now“.


SEPTEMBER 2014

• Prisoners were told about the beginning of tea drinking traditions in China and how those

traditions made a huge influence on various cultures ant customs.

• All feelings, such as vision, touch, taste, sense of

smell ant hearing, are very strong and active during the ceremony. What do we all need, is to

take some time for ourselves, for silence, for being „here and now“...

• During this tea drinking event inmates had a possibility to taste tea of healing herbs (nettle and mint) and to relax, concentrate ant calm their mind.

AFTERNOON EVENT “TEA DRINKING TRADITIONS”


OCTOBER 2014

• Fruit and vegetable carving is a delightful way to make food into art.

• Nowadays food carving professionals are welcome in the finest restaurants around Europe.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CARVING CLASS

• A specific training was organised in the Panevezys

Correction House to present the inmates a few simplified fruit and vegetable carving techniques for

Lithuanian kitchen.


OCTOBER 2014


• The inmates were guided through the process of crafting apples, potatoes,

carrots, paprikas, leeks, pattypans and

pumpkins into natural and realistic

masterpieces.



OCTOBER 2014

• The inmates were surprised at the techniques employed to craft special shapes (for example, a flower or a bird) from simple Lithuanian fruits or

vegetables.


OCTOBER 2014

• The inmates not only learned simple garnishing techniques to transform humble harvests into

incredible edibles, but also had a possibility to use Lithuanian fruits and vegetables as their medium for

artistic expression.

• This is a craft inmates can employ in the future to make their important holiday meals much more

unique.



NOVEMBER 2014

WORKSHOP “COOKING FOR KIDS”

• Women, raising their children under 3 years in the Mother and Child Unit, participated in a workshop “Cooking for Kids".

• Mothers were cooking for kids and with kids!

Preparing yougurt muffins


NOVEMBER 2014


• A tasty curd pie according to the old grandmother’s recipe,

• yogurt muffins

• and candies made of dried fruits with a nut hidden inside

were prepared during the workshop.

Preparing a curd pie


OCTOBER 2014


• Convicted women learned a lot and had a chance to enjoy fun time cooking and tasting

delicious food with their kids!

Preparing candies


DECEMBER 2014

EMBROIDERY CLASSES • The goal – to create the embroidered

picture of the PROJECT LOGO.

• The inmates were serving as teachers to each other.


DECEMBER 2014

THE RESULTS

EMBROIDERY CLASSES


DECEMBER 2014 – JANUARY 2015

TRAVELING EXHIBITION OF THE PROJECT LOGO

• From December 20, 2014 to January 20, 2015 the community and the quests of the Panevezys Correction House had a possibility to visit the

Traveling Exhibition of The Project Logo.

• The dissemination event was held on the 7th of January.• The participants of the event – the inmates and the staff of the Panevezys

Correction House as well as the personnel of the Adult Training Centre.


JANUARY 2014

COOKING WORKSHOPS

• The workshops are conducted by our instructors and are held at the prison;

• The groups are limited to 5-7 people so that prisoners have an ample opportunity to interact with the instructor and one another;

• At the end of each workshop, participants taste the food they have prepared;

• Inmates are actively engaged in decision making process: listening to each others experience on traditional food and

choosing the most interesting stories and recipes to prepare, and in the end – choosing the best of all prepared recipes for the book.


JANUARY 2015

COOKING WORKSHOPS

• We hope our January workshops enabled our inmates to train their skills required to bake well.


JANUARY 2015

BAKING WORKSHOP

• TRADITIONAL OATMEAL COOKIES


JANUARY 2015

BAKING WORKSHOPS

• YEAST CAKE WITH APPLES


JANUARY 2015

BAKING WORKSHOPS

• LITHUANIAN BACON BUNS

Thank you!

Education

4th International Project Meeting - PANEVEZYS CORRECTION HOUSE Lithuania