A Wonderful Kids' Guernica in Mumbai, INDIA

January 7-13, 2013

The first Kids' Guernica of 2013 was successfully  completed in Mumbai, India. This unique painting was created in 7 day workshop by 31 blind, deaf- blind students from Kamla Mehta Blind School for Girls, The Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf; Deafblind and Happy Home; School For the Blind - In the same size as Picasso’s Guernica: 3.5 m × 7.8 m, at Kasturba Mahila Mandal Auditorium, opp. Matunga Road Rly Station West, Mumbai. For the first time, we, the Rotarians and the Lions" of Mumbai District have joined hands to execute "Kids Guernica" in the most unique way. The project, inspired by Pablo Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica",1937 to protest against the brutality of war, is an effort to give the message on world peace to the adult world, through the simple and cheerful vision of children. This painting will be sent for exhibition worldwide after a few shows around Mumbai. 

A Joint project of Rotary Club of Mumbai Goregaon West, 
Rotary Club of Mumbai Shivaji Park and Lions Club of Shivaji Park
KG ’13 Participating School Children 
Kamla Mehta Blind School for Girls

Vishakha P. Sing 10 years,  Sushmita S. Acharya  13 years,  Nisha H. Sing  10 years
Ankita P. Kamblekar 15 years, Anusha S Cheirla 9 years, Deepali M. Kamble 17 years
Prachi Lalji Gupta 15 years, Bhagyashri G.Ruggi 14 years, Shilpa Anil Mishra  13 Years
Komal Bhushan Paril 14 Years

The Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf & Deafblind

Santosh Rapolu 12 years, Rutika Mehta 12 years, Kajal Mandare 14 years 
Durgesh Bhalerao 9 years, Saurabh Chaugule 16 years, Jagdish Gupta  22 years
Senju Abrahim  21 years, Akbar Noorani  22 years, Sishna Anand  20 years
Shehnaz Shaikh  20 years

Happy Home & School for the Blind

Hasneu Shaikh 12 years, Kartik Devendra 13 years, Shrikant Rathi 11 years
Suryakant Surve 16 years, Matin Bagwan 15 years, Ajay Gupta 14 years 

Shreyas More 13 years,  Gaurav Choudhary 14 years, Darshan Kamble 15 years 

Sandeep Yadav 11 years, Akash Mhade  15 years

Our Sincere Thanks to

Kamla Mehta Blind School for Girls

Directorl: Ms Suparna Ajgaonkar

The Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf & Deafblind

Ms. Beroz Vachha, Mr. Yogesh Desai

Happy Home & School for the Blind:

Ms. Meher Banaji

Teachers

Ms. Surekha J. Jadhav, Ms. Sharayu S. Darade, Ms. Shobha C Gawade

Ms. Vaishali Allelu, Ms. Pradnya Masdekar, Ms. Shamim Shaikh

Ms. Swapna Ghodke, Ms. Anita Lopes

Artists:

Mr. Ashok Karmakar, Ms. Geeta Koppikar, Mr. Hareram Das

Kasturba Mahila Mandal Auditorium

Pres. Sudhir Koppikar, Pres Satish Hattiangadi, Pres Sushmita Chowdhuri

Lion Amit Chowdhuri, PDG Shirish Jhaveri, VDG Santosh Chauhan

KIDS' GUERNICA exhibition in Kameoka City, Japan

A Kids' Guernica peace mural was exhibited in various places in Kameoka City, Japan.

October 6, 2012  "Sotokko" Art Festival

November 10-11, 2012 City Culture Festival at Kameoka Convention Hall

December 1-9, 2012 at Kameoka City Culture Museum

Kameoka children's strong wish for peace attracted many people in the city.

KIDS' GUERNICA at ARTIUM in Basque, Spain

Summer 2012, ARTIUM Basque Center Museum for Contemporary Art organized a Kids’ Guernica workshop in cooperation with the Guernica Peace Museum.
Arte Garaikideko Euskal Zentro-Museoa. Vitoria-Gasteiz,
Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo. Vitoria-Gasteiz
Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art. Vitoria (Spain)
www.artium.org

KIDS' GUERNICA at Oharu Elementary School in Japan

120 students of 6^th grade at Oharu Elementary School created a Kids’ Guernica peace mural and it was exhibited in their school on November 16 and 17, 2012. The school is located near to Nagoya City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The students hold many workshops to study a lot about world peace and each of them wrote his/her own essay on peace. 

They decided on “Light, Life and Bonds” as the theme of their peace mural because they thought that these three were important elements of peace. “Light” symbolizes “hope of human being” as the brilliance of the sun and galaxy eternally exists in the universe. “Life” is a metaphor of succession and the helix structure of DNA and the mother earth are showing the origin of life and the biological diversities. The continuity of geometrical patterns expresses “Bonds” and indicates the biological diversities and the connectedness among various races. As well as the huge painting, the students also created clay-figures titled “Hands of Hope” to express the spirit of peace. All the clay-hands were installed in front of the painting as a collaboration of painting and modeling to convey their message against a violent world. World peace is not yet achieved but they expressed their strong wish for peace. Having such a dream, they completed their art work.

Wonderful Exhibition in Gernika, Spain

October 15, 2012

The Kids’ Guernica exhibition in the town of Gernika successfully ended. The Gernika Peace Museum held the exhibition from June 28 to October 14 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Gernika. More than twenty Kids’ Guernica peace murals were displayed throughout the town and this exhibition itself expressed a strong wish for peace.
http://www.museodelapaz.org/en/index_en.php

Kids' Guernica at St. Hilda's School in Tokyo, JAPAN

October 06, 2012

A Kids’Guernica peace mural was created at St. Hilda’s School in Tokyo, Japan. During the school festival, it was displayed with another mural of Haiti and Japan.

Kids’ Guernica at Seiryo Junior High School in Japan

September 29, 2012

A Kids’ Guernica peace painting was completed by the ninth grade students of Seiryo Junior High School in Kyoto, Japan and it was exhibited in their school festival on September 25. The main theme of the school festival was “Bonds”. 31 students of the ninth grades expressed their wish to create bonds across borders for a peaceful world through this Kids’ Guernica painting. The blue sky of the painting indicates “beyond borders”, the bridge of rainbow shows “connecting peoples’ hearts” and the smile of children symbolizes “peace.” In July, they made a basic concept of this painting and worked very hard to complete it during summer holidays. Each student’s individual vivid expression can be seen in the different styles of drawing a variety of faces and clothes.