Music,
theater arts give Middle East youth
"windows" for communication
Sunday, 06
September 2009
"Music will save the world."
--Pablo
Casals
"The path to greatness is along with
others."
--Baltasar Gracian
International Day
of Peace is Monday, September 21, 2009.
http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/
Each citizen - young and old - has the power to
help Liight Up The World.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezsd5XnDFRc
Where we live, diverse adults will be Crossing
Lines: Sharing Stories, Creating Community.
http://traubman.igc.org/sanmateosunday.htm
For us, connecting at the heart is only a start.
The beginning of the end of war.
Since "peace" is about People and
Relationships.
And every day must become an international day of
peace.
Successful communication.
Unprecedented cooperation and
creativity.
Illustrated at http://traubman.igc.org/changechartsall.pdf
Modeled in real life by more and more people.
Every day.
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L&L
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Peace Child Israel
PEACE
CHILD ISRAEL , founded in 1988, is one of the great Holy Land examples of
Jewish and Palestinian youth of Israel modeling engagement, communication, and
artistic creativity.
The graduates have now decided they want to have an
alumni association to continue their lives together.
September 3, 2009, former PCI participants
convened at the Arab-Hebrew Theatre in Jaffa to begin making Peace Child Israel
a household name and putting on "center stage" the work it does for a
better shared society.
With a great turnout from Qalansua,
Jaffa, Sakhnin, Nazareth, Kfar
Qassem and East Jerusalem, brainstorming was driven
mainly by graduates from the Arab cities and towns where PCI is active.
Plans are in motion to launch their "alumni
association" on December 31st to ring in 2010 with a bang.
The Jewish and Arab young women and men hope is that
the earth will shake, with so much activity all on the same day at the same hour.
SEE PHOTOS of
their exciting Jaffa meeting:
http://www.mideastweb.org/peacechild/peace_child_arab-jewish_alumni.html
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WINDOWS: Channels for
Communication
WINDOWS:
Channels for Communication - http://www.win-peace.org/
- since 1991 continues bringing together Israeli and Palestinian teens.
They get to know each other then are able create
projects together.
SEE and HEAR the Jewish and Palestinian youth
of WINDOWS tell more about their insights and
experiences in October, 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfY3nnlAkns
June 18th 2009 a group of nineteen young
Israelis and Palestinians of WINDOWS came together in Tel Aviv to show that
music can overcome conflict by creating relationships and musical art.
SEE them creating
together -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0-4vnDN55Q
VIEW and HEAR their new song, A Step for
Peace -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQgWswj_HQY
The project was in collaboration the pioneering
London-based music college, Point Blank - http://www.pointblanklondon.com/ .
Jews and Arabs in point blank range
Published by Israelity.com - June 23, 2009
http://israelity.com/2009/06/23/jews-and-arabs-in-point-blank-range/
Teens
bridge Middle East divide with
song for peace
London Evening Standard - 13 July 2009
A Step for Peace
We are angry, we're afraid, we are
sad
We want to bring back the dead
We have to let go of hatred
We need to overcome fear
We are tired of revenge
We want the future to be clear
(Chorus)
We want peace, we need peace
We can live together in this land
We may all be wrong, we may all be right
But the best way is to stop the fight
We can make the future bright
We should all have equal rights
No racism
No discrimination
Together we can change the situation
Although we can't forget
We can do our best
And if we forgive
In a better future we'll live
Put your egos on the side
Give up hatred and false pride
Together we can make peace
In the Middle East
Yaa!
"Music will save the world."
--Pablo
Casals
"The path to greatness is along with
others."
--Baltasar Gracian