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Date: May 04, 2007 at 09:57:01
From: Suzanne Sapir, [ool-18b943a3.dyn.optonline.net]
Subject: SMALL PIECES FOR PEACE-Int'l Childrens Art Project-submit by June 1

URL: http://www.peaceplease.com/images/drawing template.pdf

SMALL PIECES FOR PEACE
The International Children's Art Project

Dear teachers,
dear educators,
dear parents,

This year the G8 summit will be taking place in Germany. The state-leaders will join for their annual meeting at a conference-hotel at Bad Doberan / Heiligendamm, Germany.

To the G8 summit in Heiligendamm Alexander Ochs, art-dealer and curator living in Berlin and Beijing, will be directing the exhibition ‘BALANCE!’ with around 40 artists from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the USA. ‘BALANCE’! is playing in immediate vicinity to the conference-hotel in Heiligendamm, in and around the Gothic Cathedral Doberan and in the town of Bad Doberan itself. ‘BALANCE!’ wants to join local and global events, thereby correlating them. Ik-Joong Kangs children’s-artproject SMALL PIECES FOR PEACE will be at the centre of it all. Together with UNICEF Germany, SMALL PIECES FOR PEACE is committed to the rights of children.


SMALL PIECES FOR PEACE is generated by the initiative of the renowned New York-based Korean artist Ik-Joong Kang. Since 1999 he is collecting hundreds of thousands of little drawings, on which children from all continents have lined their dreams. Dreams of their individual future, of peace and of hunger, but also of soccer and the everyday-life in their respective societies. Ik-Joong Kang joined these drawings in big installations like 100.000 Dreams at the border between North and South Korea, Amazed World at the New York UN-Building in 2001, Moon of Dreams, a balloon of almost 15 meters in diameter and with 126.000 children’s drawings from 141 countries at Ho Su Lake, Il San, Korea in the year 2004, Hope and Dream at the Muhammad Ali Centre in 2005, and, in 2006, Amazed Children with the Cincinatti Children’s Hospital. (Detailed descriptions of these projects and informations about the artist can be found at www.amazedchildren.com, www.amazedworld.com and www.ikjoongkang.com).

We ask you for your support, in order to make SMALL PIECES FOR PEACE as great as the former projects in Korea and the US. In the attachment you will find Ik-Joong Kang’s letter to the children and his drawing-pattern. We ask you to please print it and to distribute it to children wherever you see opportunities to do so.

Many international institutions, NGOs and individuals support our project. UNICEF Korea forwarded the letter to 5000 schools and kindergartens in Korea. UNICEF Germany has integrated the project into national PR activities around the G8 summit.



Digitally we could also provide letters in French, Italian, German, Chinese, Korean and Indonesian. You can also download them from our website www.smallpiecesforpeace.com.

The postal addres is: Münster Bad Doberan, Klosterstr. 2, D - 18209 Bad Doberan, Germany. There is also the possibility to scan the drawings and send them by email to: info@smallpiecesforpeace.com.

In case of questions please contact us: Maren Dey, Tel. +49 - 30 – 283 913 87, mobile: +49 - 173 – 3183 148 or dey@eurasian-culture.de.

Thank you for your support!

With kind regards,

Your SMALL PIECES FOR PEACE Team

Maren Dey

EurAsian Culture Exchange gGmbH
Sophienstr. 21
D - 10178 Berlin
Germany
Tel. + 49 (0) 30. 283 913 87
dey@eurasian-culture.de
www.smallpiecesforpeace.com, www.ikjoongkang.com
www.amazedworld.com

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