Kids' Guernica Exhibition in Nagasaki

August 9, 2012

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A Kids' Guernica exhibition is held around the ground-zero area of Nagasaki, Japan for the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. This exhibition shows Kids’ Guernica peace paintings from Germany and Cambodia as well as paintings by Nagasaki children.

Two paintings were sent from Germany. One is from Thüringen and another is a collaborative painting with children from different countries: Turkey, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Germany, and White Russia and from different religions: Islam, Christianity, Orthodox, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

Two more collaborative peace paintings are also exhibited. One was created by Jewish and Palestinian children. Another painting was completed by children of Haiti and Japan, which were hit by catastrophic earthquakes. This exhibition shows a strong message for world peace from the ground zero.

Collaboration with Haiti and Japan

July 29, 2012

  The half of the canvas was painted by children of Cesla School in Bon Repos, Haiti which also suffered a great disaster by earthquake in 2010. The painting was completed last summer and sent to Japan. The other half of the painting was completed by children of Natori community near the Sendai airport swallowed by the tsunami of 3.11, last year. They are still living in a temporary housing even one year after the disaster. This Kids’ Guernica is a collaborative work with children in the both countries hit by earthquakes and shows a message of the necessity of cooperation to struggle for revival after the earthquakes.

Exhibition in Gernika Peace Museum

A winderful Kids' Guernica exhibition is held at Gernika Peace Museum in Spain.

For this exhibition, new Kids' Guernica peace paintings were created in the town of Gernika.

 http://www.museodelapaz.org/en/index_en.php

Kids' Guernica at the Museum of President Jacques Chirac in France

June 2012   Within the framework of the exhibition Guernica at the museum of President Jacques Chirac, we proposed works of plastic art to the pupils of the Corrèze.from February till April, 2012.About 300 pupils collaborated to this educational project. In the term of these works, 258 children's works around the theme of the peace were created. During 4 days, pupils realized the last phase of the project by realizing a fresco in the size of the original board of Pablo Picasso.

In September, 2012, the monumental work will circulate in schools having participated in this project in Corrèze.

RigauI Vincent

Directeur adjoint

museepresidentjchirac.fr

Kids' Guernica at Helene Lange School in Mannheim, Germany

June 23, 2012 
The young artists“ of the Helene-Lange-School have created in an exciting process step by step their joint peace mural. Since May 18 students from various classes have been working on this project. They stayed behind after school and even came Saturdays to the school, in order to complete the painting.
On 20th of June the mural was presented during an official ceremony in the court yard of the school to all.
At the same time, the sister school of the Helene Lange School, namely the village school „Miracles de Yahvé“ in Togo, have started with their preparations. The plan is to have the students there paint as well their peace mural. Since canvas and paints do cost a lot of money, the Helene Lange School intends to collect money for this purpose. It would be the first Kids' Guernica mural to be painted in Africa, and the children of this African school would have for the first time the opportunity to get to know the use of colours.
The aim is to have both murals be exhibited one day together with other murals during a Kids' Guernica event. The Kids' Guernica murals go very often on trips, in order to be exhibited in different parts of the world. Since the canvas can be easily rolled together, they can be transported easily as part of the baggage one takes with oneself anyhow.
Christa Kleinbub

Kids' Guernica in Tübingen, Germany

The Kids’ Guernica workshop in Tübingen was organized by a group of

young people who worked on a honorary basis to advance youth culture.
The project startet in May 2011 at three primary schools and ended with
a 3-day-festival on a central marketplace in the middle of Tübingen. A
complete program was created by the youth (see www.jukuta.de)
Before that, a group of children painted a special mural linked to
Kids' Guernica, and to which they were introduced by the organizer and
artist Ines Dulay-Winkler. She was assisted by her team of young people

who are all very active within peace development. They talked with the

children about peace and war, explained the Guernica’s history, and
referred to the history of Tübingen. Of course, these talks included
instructions about different painting techniques. After that the

children started to paint

Kids’ Guernica in Tübingen was created by 28 children (age 6-20 years).
The mural depicts a kids interpretation of the original Pablo Picasso’s
“Guernica”. For more impression see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqv7d0q02GM

Ines Dulay-Winkler & JUKUTA -Team

Kunst Projekte Coaching

Gartenstraße 37 / 1

D - 72074 Tübingen

www.kunst-ist-lebensart.de

http://www.jukuta.de/

Kid’s Guernica at Mater Sagrado Corazón, Monterrey in Mexico

“I’m the main piece of peace: AND YOU?”

May 17, 2012

We, Sofía Dávila and Marcela Govea, ESL teachers, worked with 6th grade elementary students reading extraordinary people biographies and how courage and imagination can be linked to actually do something about the world we live in.

Nowadays Mexico, and specially the city we live in, Monterrey, is suffering of a lot of violence and we at Mater Sagrado Corazón, as part of the Sacred Heart Society, are concerned about working toward justice and peace in the world. We seek for Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) in every way of our lives, understanding the reality in the world today with sensitivity and compassion, leading us to make choices in our attitudes, lifestyles and the way we relate to ourselves, to the others and to the entire creation. Therefore, we have decided to empower our students to build peace from their/our own trenches, every single day, with our classmates, with our teachers and in our families, so that’s why our Kid’s Guernica pretends to be a puzzle with only one white piece that stands for an invitation to complete PEACE, starting with a self peaceful, but not passive, attitude.

The canvas was made in 108 sections, so all Elementary Class 2006-2012 had his/her own piece where to express his/her own idea of peace, we also had a piece for each teacher, principal and secretary that have been in touch with these students during this school year, to show the compromise we all made to live practicing peace everyday in every moment of our life.

Even though every single piece is different, they all represent our own concept of peace, we talked about situations in our life that require a peaceful attitude from us, what we can do to help promote peace (even students are only 11 or 12 years old), and also about how the courageous act of living the peace in our daily life can help others, how imagination can be used to create improvement.

We used only crayons to paint, so it was really simple and accessible, finally we ironed the canvas to make it easier to transport or move, we even came up with extraordinary ideas from the Sacred Heart Society, so probably this work will be traveling around the world to invite more people to join and complete our puzzle.

We did the big opening of the art piece last May 17th, 2012 during a mass we at Mater usually celebrate, “life mass” in which students give thanks to their parents for the great gift of life.

The parents were fascinated with the final mural, they took lots of pictures of it, the students were so proud of themselves and of course we are extremely proud of them, their potential and their self confidence on how they are an important part of the change they want to experience.

We all loved what the students themselves decided to say on the big opening:

“We, the students from 6th grade would like to show you a mural, a mural we been working very hard, a mural we put our heart into, a mural that means more than just canvases for us.

This mural is about one thing: peace.

Probably for you I might be just a simple girl, but I believe Peace is more than just a word, for me peace means action, that’s what peace is about, that a single person can make a change, if one person can make a change, imagine what billions of people could do.
If we all got together nothing could stop us.
So I invite you to be part of the change, to make something important, to help, and make peace.”
-Kristina Fuentes

“This mural means a lot for me, and I think for most of us too. The effort we put in it, including teachers, coordinators, the principal, and everyone who supported us, is an effort that you should appreciate, because we want to express our ideas in this mural. Actually, we live in a situation of violence, the citizens from Monterrey should cooperate to make peace, we, the students of 6th grade cooperated a little bit, we need to do more. What will you do?”
-Mariana Montes de Oca

When we read what this mural meant for the students we knew it was definitely worth it.

This is our invitation to build peace and act peacefully in every single life situation.

Sofía Dávila and Marcela Govea

ESL teachers