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"Peace is not a ghost" - painting of banner

              

               Peace is not a ghost                                                      @ Maya K. Fischer

 

Text for Documentation: Hatto Fischer

Photos: Maya K. Fischer

Status: 2007 (last updated: 2.6.2013)

Video documentation by Vilka

 

 

Painting the peace banner

                               

In preparation for the evening concert the youth got together to paint a banner on which peace is written in different languages.

To start out with, and before the painting of the banner started, Anna Arvanitaki, President of Poiein kai Prattein, gave a small talk about how to conceive working together with local and regional authorities in Greece, and what is the meaning of bringing the Kids' Guernica project to Chios in 2007.

Anna Arvanitaki

 

In the sign of the blue

 

 

                  

                           Contradictions in life

 

                    Blue streaks of hope

                                                     in the sky

        light up eyes

                             to wonder why

                                                         this affinity

        of infinite space

                             could be disturbed

                                                    for the sake of peace

    

 

            

Engagement is another word for invisible signs now slowly becoming visible as the ideas start to evolve on the banner.

 

 

 

       

                Ich liebe Frieden - I love peace

    

 

Iman Nouri from Tripoli, Lebanon

Iman Nouri coordinated the painting action for the mural "Enough! We want to live." When war raged in Lebanon in 2006, and it was unsafe for her two daughters to play in the street, she let them paint on the walls of their flat. From there it was but a tiny step to gather children and youth in Tripoli to do a Kids' Guernica action. She coined the most important term to designate in what kind of reality we are living in today, namely in 'schizophrenia of poeace'.

 

                   

                    Hatto Fischer, Miriam and Iman Nouri

Hatto Fischer

 

                                                           

                                                            Asit Poddar

 

Asit Poddar, artist in Kolkata, India and coordinator of the mural done by the blind boys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                    

 

    

 

 

Anna Arvanitaki together with another girl writing peace in Greek: Ireni

    

Teacher of school looking on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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