AJ Lavilla was born in the Philippines and moved to New York when he was fourteen. Here he pursued his dreams and became a self-taught street artist. He hosts children at workshops about art and he wants to inspire them to do the same as he did: dream big. A City Limits film by Suzanne Virk and Maaike Kuijken of the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, Netherlands.
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