"Peace is not a ghost" - painting of banner - Ποιειν Και Πραττειν

"Peace is not a ghost" - painting of banner

Peace is not a ghost @ Maya K. Fischer

Text for Documentation: Hatto Fischer

Photos: Maya K. Fischer

Status: 2007 (last updated: 2.6.2013)

Video documentation by Vilka

Painting the peace banner

In preparation for the evening concert the youth got together to paint a banner on which peace is written in different languages.

To start out with, and before the painting of the banner started, Anna Arvanitaki, President of Poiein kai Prattein, gave a small talk about how to conceive working together with local and regional authorities in Greece, and what is the meaning of bringing the Kids' Guernica project to Chios in 2007.

Anna Arvanitaki

In the sign of the blue

	Contradictions in life Blue streaks of hope in the sky light up eyes to wonder why this affinity of infinite space could be disturbed for the sake of peace

Engagement is another word for invisible signs now slowly becoming visible as the ideas start to evolve on the banner.
Ich liebe Frieden - I love peace

Iman Nouri from Tripoli, Lebanon

Iman Nouri coordinated the painting action for the mural "Enough! We want to live." When war raged in Lebanon in 2006, and it was unsafe for her two daughters to play in the street, she let them paint on the walls of their flat. From there it was but a tiny step to gather children and youth in Tripoli to do a Kids' Guernica action. She coined the most important term to designate in what kind of reality we are living in today, namely in 'schizophrenia of poeace'.