Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

Chios May 4th - 6th, 2007

Children of the World dream and paint about Peace.

KIDS' GUERNICA Events in Chios May 4th - 6th 2007.

When there is peace, then even the sun wears sunglasses!

 

Program

 

Friday May 4th

 

                

                 Nagasaki "Rebuilding the city after the bomb"

 

                       

                        Painting of Peace banner

 
Saturday May 5th

 

           

            Thomas Economacos with the children

 

 

 

          

                  Peace Posters (below the stage) brought by Kate Parker, London UK

 

Sunday May 6th

Towards a peace declaration

with youth from Chios, Greece and Izmir, Turkey painting together such a mural

By painting together a peace mural on a canvas which has been donated by Takuya Kaneda, Coordinator of Kids' Guernica International, a pledge was made to overcome Delacroix's reminder of the slaughter in Chios and show this Chios-Izmir mural at the Kids' Guernica exhibition linked to the Symposium "Productivity of Culture" organised by the Network of European Cultural Capital Cities at the Megaron - Zappion, Athens, Oct. 18 - 19, 2007.

Stones and Sand form a pattern along the shore line

 

Along the curvatures of the earth
a universe unfolds
out of certainty of love
still ships passing by the coastline
lets H.Broch remember the loneliness of sailors
who left one day out of Romanticism their ports
and never again found back home
despite favorable winds.

As the myth narrated by Homer tells
only those return whose wives remain faithful
although Penelope spend years of waiting all alone
but while she was surrounded by friars
she felt no fear to wish the man she loved would return
to challenge all those other men
and free her so that they could love again


As if the wild goose
no longer flies away
now tamed at home.

hf

 

The critical question is whether or not peace be brought about by staying calm, so that things can settle down and everyone can wait until a way is shown to get out of the conflict without doing any further harm? What love can do that power is unable to dictate, that is a longing of man and woman for a life filled with happiness. Once linked to the ability to avoid war, then the voice of reason shall be listened to.

Given the state of affairs in the world, what lesson can be drawn out of the past? Surely what has been taking place within Europe since 1945, that is in view of history a kind of miracle. Naturally the bombardment of Kosovo in 1999 broke that promise of never again war! Yet peace has prevailed to a large extent and to this mainly thanks to the creation of the European Union.  What has contributed a great deal to this is a peaceful integration based on social and economic cohesion. After 1999 that has been abandoned to quite some extent but still it includes open borders and countering nationalist tendencies by challenging them in a positive way. 

Pre-history and responsible for the organisation:

 

Participants:

Delegations with 30 people from Japan, 4 from Lebanon, 1 from London, 1 from India, 4 from New York / USA, 1 from Germany, 7 from Athens

 

 

     

      Chios by night                                                                        @ Maya Fischer 2007

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