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Artists for Global Peace - Projects

AGP aims to assist artists in transcending borders and connect all humanity through our hearts and souls. In addition, we offer a forum for those wanting to become involved but not knowing how.

We ask poets and novelists, film producers and playwrights, to create more literature, films, and plays with a message of social responsibility and tolerance, awakening the public to the dangers of complacency.

We ask musicians and dancers to use their art form, which leaps across national borders without any restrictions of language, to create bridges of trust and tolerance between differing cultures, most especially cultures which have traditionally feared each other.

We ask painters, sculptors, and architects to challenge us to see our world with new and perceptive eyes, enriching our diversity rather than creating sameness.

We ask actors and all other artists to avail themselves of their positions of respect to speak out against all that diminishes the spark of the human spirit. Artists working together can model universal peace and respect.

What we do

Create a Network

• Support artists
• Build public awareness of the work artists are doing toward peace and social responsibility
• Showcase examples
• Chat and bulletin boards
• Letters to the press

Host events

• Multi-media, multi-cultural events
• Multi-age
• Meet the artist events

Create a think-tank core

• Help define questions we face
• Help steer our course
• Help present artistic voice to the UN
• Create a manifesto for human rights
• Symposia on the interface between arts and peace

Sponsorship

• Artists to bridge cultures
• An annual award for outstanding achievement

Artistic Goals for First Year

• Produce a multi-media launching event: A concert production of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, with full orchestra, chorus, soloists, dancers, art , and poetry
• Create an artists' network on the web for communication, collaboration, and promotion
• Monthly meet the artist events in intimate settings

The Manifesto for Social Change

We are writing a manifesto addressing the evolution of the human heart and mind toward something that is neither egocentric nor ethnocentric, but sets individuals free to unfold their own deepest possibilities in a culture of encouragement and love. Addressing our responsibilities is a mandatory condition for continued existence or our communions will dissolve, and we along with them. Our manifesto sounds the clarion call to action for all artists.

 

"Artists are the ultimate interpreters of the miracle of life on our beautiful planet in the mysterious universe." - Robert Muller, Former United Nations Undersecretary General