A Floating Lucid Launch

Artists are invited to participate in a one month journey to Nauru Detention Centre to pleed for it's closure. Flotillas of Hope is a project initated by Stavros, a dedicated person who believes in different values contrary to ones most of us are facing daily. Filmmaker & Digital Media Artist Angela van Boxtel shares his belief in the 'hope' for and creation of a different world.

Almost 300 people, including 90 children are held on Nauru as part of the Government 's Pacific Solution. Some of them have been there for over 2 years.

Van Boxtel made a successful short film The Cage House (2002) about a young Iraqi boy in an Australian Refugee Detention Center, and how he escaped into his imagination to deal with the hard reality of being locked up. Two years later not much has changed and children are still held captive as if they were prisoners.

Van Boxtel again will try to make an attempt to speak out in a different way. With a floating artistic boat with artists from many different disciplines she will join Stavros and Flotillas of Hope on the sailing journey to Nauru, trying to create some beauty out of chaos.