Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

Exhibitions



Only a child could have this idea - to give the sun sunglasses! Afterall it is outside a bright day. The sun shines and no rain cloud can be seen far and wide!

2005

 

2006

 

2007


               

                Spyros Mercouris with pupils of 108th School           2007

 

In 2007 Asit Poddar started a peace mural being painted by the blind boys at the Blind Boys Academy in Kolkota, India. The first mural was shown first in Chios, and then in Athens in 2007. Of interest is the question the blind boys keep asking: "when there is war, why is always religion involved?"

As for peace Efforts in Middle East, the unresolved Palestine-Israel question has preturbed everyone for too long by now. It seems impossible to contribute in a way which avoids the usual misunderstandings e.g. criticism of Israel often taken as sign of anti-Semitism or siding with the Palestinian cause as being really for violence and terrorism. Crucial is here something which Jad Salman expresses best as artist: important is to respond first of all as human being and only then as Palestinian. 

 

2008

2009

 

2010

KIDS' GUERNICA celebrating during this year its 15th anniversary: 1995 - 2010

January

March

August

September

Note: unfortunately the painter Pantelis Sabliotis died shortly afterwards

October

Patrick admiring the Belfast mural at Vincennes exhibition

 

November

 

"The other: enemy or friend" - mural painted by the children and youth of the community of Gezoncourt after they had all visited the battle grounds of First World War and there discussed with a historian the reasons of this war.

Actions international:

 

2011

18 Feb. One day conference in Gent, Belgium:

"Kids' Guernica and European Capitals of Culture: the cultural dimension of peace"

Hosted by the University of Gent thanks to Bart Verschaffel and organized by Hatto Fischer with the support of the City of Gent, mayor Daniel Termont and the Ministry of Education: Brecht Demeuleneare

11th of March - Fukushima and the consequences

 

International

   www.jukuta.de

Both cities obtained the title but whether Kids' Guernica action shall be a part of the official program remains to be seen. Significant is that in Wroclaw a certain Richthoven designed the attack upon Guernica and San Sebastian lies but 50 Kms away from Gernica. The city wants to use culture to get away from terrorism and use of violence which has left just a 'blood bath' behind. For Wroclaw it is also of importance that Picasso attended a peace conference in that city in 1947. It was during that stay that he drew on a napkin his now famous pigeon which has  become a symbol of peace all over the world.

coordinated by artist Beatriz Churrucu with Manual Gonzales visiting to tell the story of his father who was evacuated from Guernica in 1937. Upon hearing that story, the children confronted themselves with the question what would they do if they lost one day suddenly everything?

Afrika

 

2012

 

Japan

 

Gernica, Spain - Actions initiated by the Gernica Museum

 

2013



2014

Traces of children suffering from eplipsy Action undertaken by Alexandra Zanne

Kids' Guernica - Guernica Youth project in Tripoli, Lebanon August 2014 coordinated by Valia Mhaish with the title of the mural being significantly To remember we need to forget

On 2nd and 8th of September an action has started in the local community of Zabbar, Malta with Gertrude Spiteri and Paul Dalli from the organisation Life Long Learning doing the coordination. For an initial documentation, see

Further sources of information

Web site of Kids' Guernica in Japan: www.kids-guernica.org

Exhibition catalogue with Tom Anderson (editor) in Tallahassee, Florida, January 2010

www.insea.europe.ufg.ac.at/.../KIDS'_Guernica_2009_FSU_exhibition_catalog.pdf

YouTube: “KIDS’ GUERNICA is a peace project for children through art in different places of the world to create peacepaintings on huge canvases the same size as Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica’, 1937 (3.5 m x 7.8m), which protested against the brutality of bombing in the town of Guernika during the Spanish civil war.
The participant children expressed powerful messages of peace with their creativity and imagination, which would contribute to world peace in the 21st century.”

Source:http://www.ikonotv.de/blog/?p=2845

 

2015

Kids' Guernica – Guernica Youth meeting in Wroclaw, May 13 – 16, 2015 served the purpose to prepare the exhibition in Malbryzch to be held in June 2016 when Wroclaw shall be European Capital of Culture. Unfortunately the plan to hold this exhibition did not materialize.

Action in France in conjunction with Theatre de la Vallee: Gerold Schumann. The concept was developed in 2014 and implemented in 2015. See


Exhibition in Olympia Sept. 2 - 6, 2015 in conjunction with Symposium "The need of a constructive dialogue", 1 -7 Sept. 2015, followed by a presentation at the Reception at Cycladic Museum in Athens on Sept. 6th.

2016

Display of the mural "Our journey" by refugee children in President Hotel, Berlin - siehe Flüchtlingskinder / Refugee children in Hotel Präsident, Berlin 2016

 

2017

Public showing in the presence of the President of the Greek Republic, Procopis Pavlopoulos, of the mural Break down the wall - Haidari mural, Feb. 2017 created by Greek and refugee children under the coordination of Thomas Economacos.

  

 

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