Kids Guernica

KIDS' GUERNICA project was initiated by ART JAPAN NETWORK in 1995, the year of the 50th anniversary of World War II. More than 70 wonderful paintings were already completed for this project in 30 countries:

USA, JAPAN, KOREA, FRANCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, NEPAL, KUWAIT, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, TAIWAN, BANGLADESH, ETHIOPIA, GERMANY, ALGERIA, CHILE, SRI LANKA, CAMBODIA, ITALY, INDONESIA, UK, BRAZIL, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, ISRAEL & PALESTINE, LEBANON, HOLLAND, THAILAND, AUSTRIA, BELARUS, CZECH, GREECE, AFGHANISTAN, EAST TIMOR and many more countries.

The first stage of KIDS' GUERNICA project 1995-2000 was successfully developed by ART JAPAN NETWORK and the second stage has been managed by KIDS' GUERNICA International Committee with Takuya Kaneda as coordinator.

Involvement of Poiein kai Prattein in Athens

In Greece POIEIN KAI PRATTEIN with Hatto Fischer and Thomas Economacos have taken the initiative to organize Kids' Guernica exhibitions in Kastelli, Crete (April 2006), Chios (May 4th - 7th, 2007) and after an action bringing together children and youth from Chios and Izmir in Izmir another exhibition in Athens (October 2007). The latter took place in conjunction with the ECCM Symposium "Productivity of Culture".

Other actions have meant giving support to Bernard Conlon in Belfast, Iman Mourad in Tripoli, Lebanon and Gerold Schumann and Theatre de la Vallee which organised a Kids' Guernica workshop and exhibition opening on May 7th, 2009.

Given the fact that Kids' Guernica celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2010, a lot of support was given to Tom Anderson in Tallahassee, Florida, USA to organise both the Kids' Guernica exhibition and the art symposium about art education and social justice.

Work in progress in 2010:

While preparing with Monique Kissel a Kids' Guernica workshop at Saint Denis University in Paris along with an exhibition to be held in Vincennes come October 2010,

there are plans to do likewise Kids' Guernica actions with Katia David and Pantelis Sabliotis in Berlin, Alexandra Zanna in Nancy, France and Manuel Gonzales in Ghent, Belgium. In Ghent plans are to engage both the youth and the police in a dialogue about violence in cities.

References:

There took place an action in Picasso's atelier in Paris in October and November 2009, results thereof can be seen at www.kids-guernica.org and www.kidsguernica.eu

Kids' Guernica was also recognized by the European Commission as an "innovative and creative" project which has so far not received EU funds.

The KIDS' GUERNICA project includes "Workshop" and "Exhibition."

If any local organizer wishes to participate in KIDS' GUERNICA Exhibitions, the international committee should be contacted and be informed while all costs, including the sending of the painting to the exhibition site has to be covered by the local organisations.

See also the KIDS’ GUERNICA international web site:
www.kids-guernica.org

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The KIDS' GUERNICA project includes "Workshop" and "Exhibition."