WHO ARE WE ?

The Adiama Association was born in 2006. It is a non-profit organization (French 1901 Law).
Three women are at the origin of this human and creative endeavour.

Annika Skattum, born in Norway, in 1966. She spent parts of her life in Africa and in France, where she is currently living. Adiama was born thanks to:


With a professional background in tourism and interior design, she dedicates herself nowadays to:

• Her artistic expression: drawing, ingraving, painting and sculpture.
• Therapeutic work. Certified in transpersonal therapy, rebirthing and art therapy, she gives individual sessions and leads group workshops, both in France and Senegal.
• Running the Adiama Association, notably for communication and exhibits.

She went for her first artistic visit to Casamance in 2004, at the
"Children’s Home" in Ziguinchor.
Next, in partnership with Joachim Bessene, she created the
"Outouka Village" in Kafoutine.
At present, she shares her time between French Provence and Senegal’s Casamance Province.

Emmanuelle Robert, Cellist and therapist, born in 1969 in the North of France.

She has been teaching musical awakening and cello to children and adults since 1992.
She has created her own teaching method by taking into account the being in its globality.
Since 2003, she has been devoting herself to artistic creation as a creative being with, as a medium, encounters and improvisation.
She graduated from the Training to Integral Consciousness in Rebirth Therapy and offers individual sessions with conscious breathing and sound. Attracted for a long time by Africa, she traveled there for the first time in December 2005.
Outouka Village greeted her, as she started there an artistic and human exchange. In August 2006, she took along with her students from Paris and a cello. The latter will be staying there for future stays and encounters…

Isabelle Perez, born in 1965, general practionner medical doctor, specialized in psycho-pediatrics-nutrition. She lives and works in the Eastern Pyrénées, Southern France, in Saint Estève.
In 2002, she started an artistic activity with the art practicioner: Zeyno Arcan.
In parallel, she expressed herself through glaze modeling, painting and drawing.
Very much attracted by Africa, she often travels to Senegal. Isabelle offers her medical knowledge, which she combines with her artistic expression, during her encounters with children.

and
Outouka Village and Children’s Home are the places where they invest their energies in Kafoutine and Zinguinchor, in Senegal…

Adiama gathers people wishing to contribute
to a culture of peace, tolerance and non-violence through art and creativity, and also through crosscultural exchanges throughout the world.

The Association has its headquarters:
in Southeastern France: in the Vaucluse Department of Provence, near the village of Saint Saturnin les Apt 84490, Combe de Lourète.