March 24, 2018 A collaborative art workshop of Kids' Guernica and Third Paradise was successfully held in Nikko, Japan.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Kids' Guernica and Third Paradise in Nikko, JAPAN
March 24, 2018 A collaborative art workshop of Kids' Guernica and Third Paradise was successfully held in Nikko, Japan.
Kids' Guernica at Nakateshima Elementary School, JAPAN
November, 2017 A Kids' Guernica peace painting was completed at nakateshima Elementary School, Osaka in Japan.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Kids’ Guernica at Bedales Prep School in UK
March 18, 2018
At the beginning of February, 2018, Bedales Prep School, Dunhurst, a small independent Prep school in the South East of England, enjoyed a week of cross-curricular workshops in response to the ‘Kids’ Guernica’ project. We began with a whole school assembly dedicated to Picasso’s famous painting, ‘Guernica’, 1937, and showed our pupils the Kids’ Guernica project, the response of school children around the world. Across all subjects we discussed international peace and explored four main themes; Young and Old, Friendship, Love and Conflict. In Art and Design, pupils began to compose the mural. There are five main panels (left to right); Conflict, Young and Old, Friendship, Love and Peace Poetry. We used textile collage and stitch and were inspired by the work of contemporary British artist, Grayson Perry. All pupils in years 7 and 8 (ages 11-14) studied and were inspired to write poetry in English, they then added their words in stitch to the mural. In History, pupils learnt about the rise of Nazism in Germany in the inter-war period. In French, pupils read and illustrated the poetry of Paul Eluard, notably his poems Liberté and ‘La victoire de Guernica’. Finally over the course of two days pupils explored the four main themes again, in Dance, Drama and Music to create a performance that was played against the backdrop of our stitched mural.
At the beginning of February, 2018, Bedales Prep School, Dunhurst, a small independent Prep school in the South East of England, enjoyed a week of cross-curricular workshops in response to the ‘Kids’ Guernica’ project. We began with a whole school assembly dedicated to Picasso’s famous painting, ‘Guernica’, 1937, and showed our pupils the Kids’ Guernica project, the response of school children around the world. Across all subjects we discussed international peace and explored four main themes; Young and Old, Friendship, Love and Conflict. In Art and Design, pupils began to compose the mural. There are five main panels (left to right); Conflict, Young and Old, Friendship, Love and Peace Poetry. We used textile collage and stitch and were inspired by the work of contemporary British artist, Grayson Perry. All pupils in years 7 and 8 (ages 11-14) studied and were inspired to write poetry in English, they then added their words in stitch to the mural. In History, pupils learnt about the rise of Nazism in Germany in the inter-war period. In French, pupils read and illustrated the poetry of Paul Eluard, notably his poems Liberté and ‘La victoire de Guernica’. Finally over the course of two days pupils explored the four main themes again, in Dance, Drama and Music to create a performance that was played against the backdrop of our stitched mural.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Kids' Guernica at Hyogo International House in Kobe, JAPAN
A wonderful peace painting was created by children and foreign students from Asia and Africa such as Zambia, Togo, South Africa and Vietnam at Hyogo International House in Kobe. “Coexistence” was the main theme of this painting and each participant made his /her own painting on a jigsaw puzzle shapes. At first, they discussed with facilitators to decide the composition of this huge painting. There is a symbol of Kobe City in the center and other part of the canvas was filled with each one’s wish for peace. This painting shows coexistence of differences rather than uniformity.
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Kids' Guernica + Third Paradise at Elementary School in Tokyo
November 17, 2017
A wonderful Kids' Guernica and Michelangelo Pistolleto's Third Paradise painting was created by the sixth grade students of Horifuna Elementart School in Tokyo, Japan.
They found that the both projects had the same purpose to build a peaceful better world and decided to combine the both images in a huge canvas. Their peace painting was displayed at their school art exhibition on November 17-18.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
A Wonderful Kids' Guernica in Indiana
May, 2017
The 8th grade students of Spanish, and 7th & 8th
grade English Language Learners, completed a Peace Quilt, titled “Stitching
Together Peace" at Clark Pleasant Middle School in
Greenwood, Indiana, the United States.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Kids' Guernica in Nagasaki
A Kids' Guernica exhibition was successfully held in Nagasaki. Not only Kids' Guernica paintings by Japanese children but those from Palestine and Italy were also exhibited. A line of the colorful paintings were displayed along the riverside near the hypocenter of the atomic bomb blast on August 9, 1945 and it became a very strong message of peace from Nagasaki, an iconic city of world peace.
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