Kids' Guernica at Hartstern Elementary in Louisville

A wonderful peace painting was created by 60 fifth grade students at Hartstern Elementary in Louisville, KY, U.S.A.

Kids' Guernica in Bangalore, India

December 28, 2013-January 04, 2014

A Kids’ Guernica workshop was held in Bangalore, India. The new peace painting was created by Indian Children who had experienced child labor and Japanese children from Fukushima. It was a good opportunity to know each other for both Indian and Japanese children through the process of creating a huge peace painting. Indian children knew the serious situation of the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima and Japanese children realized the hardship of child labor. The workshop was organized by Born Free Art School and Born Free Art Japan.

Kids' Guernica in Barquisimeto, Venezuela

 

New Version of Kids' Guernica at Ichioka Junior High School, Osaka, Japan

November, 2013

A new Kids’ Guernica was completed by 130 students of the eighth graders of t Ichioka Junior High School in Osaka, Japan and it was displayed at their school festival. As a part of peace education, first, they studied about inhumanity of bombing such as in Guernica and researched a case of Liberian Civil War to understand how innocent children were always victimized during any war time. After that, each of them expressed a message of peace on a piece of drawing paper and all of their images were composed into a Kids’ Guernica mural. They learned the necessity of working together for a peaceful world through the process of matching the color of each image with the whole color of the mural.

Kids' Guernica at Daisan Iwabuchi Primary School in Tokyo, Japan

 

A Kids’ Guernica was created by the sixth-grade students of Daisan Iwabuchi Primary School in Tokyo, Japan,

Toward Peace: A World of Smiles

When each of us

We can change our future.

Even each power is small, if we can work together,

All people of the world will be happy.

We will create a peaceful world.

Two Kids' Guernica Paintings in Northern Ireland

August 31, 2013

Two kids Guernica paintings were completed in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.  They were painted in The Glens Youth Club, Cushendall, and in Broughshane Youth Club, Broughshane. The paintings will go on public display as part of the Derry City of Culture Celebrations.  The project was implemented by artist Raymond Watson, with the Belfast Flags Project. 

Prayer for Peace in Nagasaki

August 9, 2013

For the 68th anniversary of the explosion of atomic bomb on Nagasaki, many Kids' Guernica peace paintings were exhibited to send a message of "Prayer for Peace" from Nagasaki.