Thursday, December 7, 2017

Kids' Guernica at Hyogo International House in Kobe, JAPAN











December 03, 2017

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

August 9, 2017 
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.







Kids' Guernica in Hiroshima


August 05-13, 2017
Many Kids' Guernica paintings were displayed at Peace Art Project in Hiroshima during the week of the peace memorial day. This event included music and performances as well as other art project for peace such as Okiagari Koboshi project and the Big Painting project.









Kids' Guernica in Seattle

July 31, 2017
A wonderful Kids' Guernica peace painting was created at Megumi Preschool in Seattle in the United States.







Monday, July 3, 2017

Kids' Guernica in Torino and Cuneo, Italy

June 26, 2017 
Another collaboration with "Third Paradise" and Kids' Guernica was held with 200 children in Cuneo, Italy. An image of seagul created by Yokohama children was also painted as a part of a new Kids' Guernica painting in Cuneo.















Kids' Guernica and Third Paradise in Torino, Italy

June, 2017 
A workshop of Kids' Guernica and Michelangelo Pistoletto's "Third Paradise" was held at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Torino, Italy.


A Wonderful Collaboration in Cittadellarte, Italy

June 23-24, 2017  A wonderful collaboration with Michelangelo Pistoletto's "Third Paradise" and Kids' Guernica was held in Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy. The both art projects have a common goal for a peaceful better world.

A Kids' Guernica Workshop Started in Yokohama, Japan



June 24, 2017  A Kids' Guernica workshop was started in Yokohama, a port city in Japan. This workshop was supported by Yokohama Kiwanis Club.

Monday, June 12, 2017

More Kids' Guernica in Kiev, Ukraine


June 07, 2017
Last week, Mayor of Kyoto, Mr. Daisuke Kadokawa visited Kiev as a sister city of Kyoto and saw the exhibition of Kids' Guernica as well as Okiagarikoboshi project. In this occasion, a new Kids' Guernica was created.



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