The "Wish Stall"

The "Wish Stall"

			Syrian government's attempts to eliminate the phenomenon of the spread "stalls" in the country became impossible, however the street hawkers developed their business through time till it became part of Syrian culture. When we asked people from different community slices if they ever had shopped anything off a stall, their responses were 100% “yes”.

The "Art Camping" Team founded “the Wish Stall” in Aleppo, a group of young people who landed a stall where they exchanged their wishes with dreams and Wishes of people in the street. At the beginning people approached the “Wish Stall” out of Curiosity. then they wrote their wishes down and put it among all the other Wishes.... what they wrote were extremely simple like "I wish for peace of mind to me and to my family" or "I want to become a famous fashion designer and have a show in Paris" or "I want my neighbor to know that I love him, and love me back so we marry and make a nice family".

Nairi Dakranian’s Goal (the owner of the idea of "the wish Stall") was to invite all slices of the society to express their wishes and dreams in order to create a nice and informal dialogue and means of communication between all the members of the society, and she believes that helping oneself and others to dream loudly is the first step towards accomplishing goals, and it gives the chance to others to help and be part of the process for realizing each other’s dreams. And she found no other possible way except the Stall, for it is the only space that attracts every person regardless of age, gender or social and intellectual level.