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I transferred my antiwar images to posters.
With my local peace action group, we demonstrated in Washington, D. C.f
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USA~CANADA~DENMARK
Art and Education Peace Tour
Westheimer
Peace Symposium |
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Who's Telling Our Story? At
the symposium I premiered my digital movie. I have also performed and
presented the film at theatres, colleges, and community centers in the
United States, Denmark, Canada, and Asia. (See a clip
of the movie in the movies section of my website.) |
Dr. Irwin Abrams, Quaker peace researcher, educator, activist, and biographer of Nobel Peace Prizewinners, joined me for a presentation in Yellow Springs, Ohio, speaking about the roots of the Nobel Peace Prize. | |||
My
art exhibition, Anguished Art, Outcries for Peace, was presented
in conjunction with the 15th annual Westheimer Peace Symposium and was
the inaugural exhibition in the college's Harcum Gallery of the
Boyd Cultural Arts Center. |
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International
Peace Research Association Conference |
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Banner
Art, Outcries for Peace |
At
the IPRA Conference, I discussed peace activism
strategies with Dr. Johan Galtung, founder of International Peace Research
Institute in Norway, and director of Transcend, a development and peace
network. As part of the Art and Peace Commission, I worked with Ms. Maria
Elena Lopez Vinader, musician and peace activist from Argentina. |
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I joined students and teachers participating in the Scandinavian Seminar's Peace in the Modern World/Conflict Resolution two-week seminar at the International People's College in Elsinore, Denmark. I exhibited my Banner Art and showed my movie, leading a discussion on the effects of the media on our perception of war and peace issues. |
International People's College principal Kristoff Kristiansen, a Dane, writes books on national stereotypes in world history. Garba Diallo, originally from Mauritania, teaches African Studies and International Conflict Management. | ||||||
The program included lectures and discussions on roots of global conflict in such places as the Middle East, Rwanda, and Iraq. | I visited museums and saw traditional and contemporary art in Copenhagen. | ||||
Joining a teacher and parent of a soldier in Iraq, I stood vigil outside the White House, Washington DC. | Peace begins at home, and I rejoice in the love of my family, at home and throughout the world! | |||||
To exhibit my Anguished Art: Outcries for Peace paintings and sculptures, or my Outcries for Peace Banner Art, or to have me perform Who's Telling Our Story?, please contact me at jkadircannon@gmail.com | ||||||