Winner of Photographic competition funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation entitled “Violence against women in the Mediterranean” launched and organised by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (2007). Photograph entitled ‘ Turmoil’.
A photograph by Melissa Hekkers of an anti-bullying event at a Nicosia school is one of three winners of a photo competition organised by the Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) with the support of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus
“You can call me conceptual, but I’m more of a peaceful activist… I will always propagate love, unity or the search for solutions… how people can accept each other better…there is always that story behind my work”
Cyprus-based children’s author Melissa Hekkers reads an extract from Esio Trot to schoolchildren as the British High Commission marks Roald Dahl’s 100 anniversary.
An audio-visual installation mediates fragmented life experiences of migrants, propagating new interpretations and perspectives on the global movement of people through the lens of Cyprus.
This book is a compilation of student design projects that aim to address sustainability beyond its conventional environmental component and push the boundaries of it means for communities to thrive as part of the great infinity of civilization.
As a volunteer on the island of Lesvos in Greece, Melissa Hekkers was re-establishing her ideologies of volunteer work with the refugees fleeing from Syria and other middle eastern countries.