YOUNG MINDS BUILD BRIDGES PROGRAM
Pieces for Peace with Youth from Around the World (International Project)
Our Goal CITYarts’ Young Minds Build Bridges Program designed the Pieces for Peace with Youth from Around the World Project to build bridges of cultural understanding by bringing youth from around the globe into
contact and dialogue with each other and with society as a whole through art.
The program empowers young people to share their voice for their visions of peace and thus to play an active role in shaping their future and making a sustainable difference to communities.
Our Project
Pieces for Peace consists of 4 parts: We can do one of the steps or all!
Continuing the Dream We hope that youth will hold hands around the world through their Peace artworks. More and more pieces will be created during our ongoing workshops, giving our youth a visual voice through the creation of permanent “Peace Walls” with local youth and artists. Our exhibition will continue to travel and grow as it visits more locations and activates children’s minds to become positive contributors in shaping their future.
Workshops – • Youth from around the world parFcipate in workshops where they create artworks that answer the quesFon, “What does peace look like to me?”
• To date, CITYarts has received over 5000 artworks from over 100 schools and community organizaFons in 68 countries on 6 conFnents.
Traveling ExhibiTons – • 300 selected artworks are framed and featured
• Since our first exhibiFon in 2005, it has traveled to 12 countries and 17 venues
• These include the United NaFons Headquarters in New York, the European Parliament in Brussels, Israel and Berlin.
Online Mosaic Wall -‐ • Our online exhibiFon is constantly being updated as we partner more countries and add artworks from around the world.
• It can be viewed at h2p://www.cityarts.org/Pieces-‐for-‐Peace/view-‐artworks/
Peace Walls – • In 2005, over 1,000 community volunteers, along with community partners and sponsors, created a permanent 213-‐foot mosaic at Jacob H. Schiff Park in Harlem, New York.
• Peace Walls have since been created in Karachi, Pakistan; Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK; and Berlin, Germany. More are currently being planned.