As part of the “Where Children Grow” Swedish Children's Literature exhibition hosted by the Fairy Tale Castle, events were organized for experts working with children and children on 7-8 December 2017.

Berättarministeriet (Ministry of Tales), who came to Turkey as a project guest from Sweden, shared their experiences with the expert team of Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality working with children about the training programs they developed on storytelling and creative writing.

As part of the workshops with children, Sanna Horn from the Ministry of Fairy Tales conducted part of her own educational programs by meeting with 15 children.

On the opening day of "Where Children Grow" Swedish Children's Literature Exhibition, Gözde Durmuş from Bilgi Child Studies held a short workshop promoting the exhibition with 12 children.

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Carl Schurz Schule students from Frankfurt, the sister city of Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality, drew Eskişehir paintings in the workshop held at the Fairytale Castle.

In the work "Painting Workshop" held at the Fairy Tale Castle, 13 students of Carl Schurz Schule studied Eskişehir as a subject.

SGDD ASAM Association of Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants

Children of refugee families from various countries who participated in the painting course opened by the Eskişehir Multidimensional Support Center funded by the European Union (EU) of the Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (SGDD), reflected their dreams on the canvas.

The exhibition of paintings on the theme "Women and peace by the hands of children" began to be exhibited on 19.01.2018 and was presented to art lovers at the Fairy Tale Castle for a month.

Paintings of 10 children took place in the exhibition. In the exhibition where there are a total of 20 paintings, the stories told by the children who drew that painting were also included along with the paintings. These short stories pointed to many points in the social sense and allowed refugee and immigrant children to tell their experiences.