The Peace Exchange is a cross-cultural exchange of art and messages of peace between students around the world.
In our 3rd Annual, 2011/2012 Peace Exchange Create Peace Project wants to include more than 25,000 students from schools in the U.S., Canada, Ghana, Columbia, and Nepal. The Peace Exchange is for students ages 8 – 18+ For more information, or to request a package, here is the sign up form. We encourage schools to include the Peace Exchange as a community enriching activity and invite as many students and teachers as possible to participate.
Here you can read about our recent experiences in India where we completed last years exchange with 5,000 US and Indian students exchanging peace cards. Images: India 2011 Peace Exchange or follow us on our BLOG
How it Works:
- Participating students are invited to create a work of art and share a message of peace on 6 x 8 inch peace card
- CPP will provide our facilitation packet and enough peace cards for each participating student.
- Postcards are canvas for expressing our vision of peace with art
- They are also for sharing ideas on how we create peace in a message of kindness and good will on the back.
- Once completed, return cards and Create Peace Project delivers them to a partner school and students abroad.
- Students will each create and receive an original peace card by participating in the Peace Exchange
- In the 2011/12 school year, U.S. and Canada schools will be partnered with schools in Ghana, Columbia and Nepal.
- Our goal is to have more than 25,000 students participate in this years project including 12,000+ from North America, and 4,000+ each from each of Ghana, Colombia and Nepal.
Previously: During the 2009/2010 school-year 3,000 students from schools across the US sent peace cards to 3,000 students in schools across Uganda. In the 2010/2011 Peace Exchange, 5,000 students from the U.S. and 5,000 students from India each made and received original peacecards
- This project connects children across the world, across the US, within their schools and in their classroom by making art and taking peaceful positive action in a massive arts project together.
Why The Peace Exchange:
The Peace Exchange is about connection. Connecting students to themselves, their creativity, their wisdom, and their heart. Connecting students to each other, in their classrooms, in their schools, and across continents as we bridge cultural, religious, and racial boundaries to inspire and enrich the lives of all participants.
The Peace Exchange gives students a platform from which to raise their voice for peace, acknowledge and honor each other, express themselves through their art and with words with the intention that the power of being peaceful and sharing ones self with another can create a ripple of kindness, love, and possibility felt by young people around the world.
Vision:
The Create Peace Project intends to include hundreds of thousands of kids in this on-going global peace project by branching the exchange between schools in countries on six continents in the years to come.
Goals for the Peace Exchange include:
- Involving schools from 30+ countries in the next five years
- Involving hundreds of thousands, if not millions of students in this on-going art for peace initiative
- Documenting the experience on film and in photos for educational and enlightening purposes
- Publishing a book of the best finished works
- Displaying the best art work and messages of peace on our web-site
Additional Information:
- This is a flyer for the Peace Exchange:
- Peace Exchange 2010/2011 Flyer (pdf) this is the front and back of the 6 x 8″ peacecard
- This is the Translation Page for the front of the Postcard:
- Translation Page
To learn more about how to get your school involved in the 2010/2011 Peace Exchange
Contact Ross Holzman at info@createpeaceproject.org
San Francisco Bay Area Schools
- Host a Peace Exchange Assembly or individual classroom workshops at your San Francisco Bay Area school.
- Assemblies can last from 1hr to 3 hrs depending on # of students, time available, and interest.
- A Peace Exchange assembly is 2 hrs long and includes a 40 minute presentation and peace practice followed by 1hr of art making.
- We can also cater to individual classroom needs and rather than do a larger school wide assembly, we can work with multiple individual classrooms on a given day. Both ways of doing the Peace Exchange have benefits.
Outside the San Francisco Bay Area:
- Request a package of peace cards for participation. We will send you everything you need for participation and we can support you in completing the project and getting your school and students partnered with a school in India later this school year.
