Peace March and Rally, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – February 15, 2003 By George Lottermoser
Photography ©2003 Lottermoser
Say No to Violence in the Media and in Toys by Kealey Pringle
The average child between 6 and l4 years old will see about 11,000 murders. Cartoons are the most violent with 26 violent acts per hour Media and toys Playing with Continue Reading
Algeria’s dying art: Berber women with facial tattoos tell their stories
By David Sim First appeared on the net December 30, 2015 A facial tattoo was once considered a sign of beauty among Berber women of the Chaouia (or Shawia) region Continue Reading
‘‘Women of Allah’ versus Women of Heart – Iran versus USA reality
If Georgia O’Keeffe the American female painter represented a heart of the USA, I am an Iranian female painter representing a heart of Iran. Georgia O’Keeffe carries the soul of Continue Reading
Documentary on political – art persecution to premiere in Kampala By Gabriel Buule
Courtesy photo of Cranes band where Gitta was a member The tendency of politics falling into collision with the creative art industry didn’t start yesterday that even-though pundits assume that Continue Reading
“Finding the Last Flower”: the answer of the Iranian artist Lida Sherafatmand to ‘Shock Doctrines’
From 1st to 7th July 2019 in La Biennale di Venezia, the Iranian-born artist Lida Sherafatmand will display “Finding the Last Flower”, an exhibition where she answers the shocking but Continue Reading
James BalduinThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers.
— James Baldwin
Georgia O’keeffeTo create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Lauryn Hill performing at Brixton Academy, London. 05/02/1999. (Photo by Chris Lopez/Sony Music Archive/Getty Images)“As musicians and artists, it’s important we have an environment — and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.” – Lauryn Hill
Dr. Daisaku IkedaThe life and essence of art—whether it be painting, music, or dance—lies in expressing through a wellspring of emotion the universal realm of the human spirit. It is a melding of the individual and the universal. That is why great art reaches out beyond ethnic and national barriers to move people all over the world.
Nadine GordimerResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity
—Nadine Gordimer South African novelist, The Essential Gesture, lecture, 12 Oct 1984
Sigmund FreudEverywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
—Sigmund Freud
Antoine de St. ExuperyA rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
—Antoine de St. Exupery
I’m not a political singer. I don’t know what the word means. People think I consciously decided to tell the world what was happening in South Africa. No! I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us — especially the things that hurt us.
- As quoted in Denselow, Robin (16 May 2008)
Ben OkriStories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals or nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
—Ben Okri, Nobel Prize for Literature
Arundhati Roy“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Dr. Johan GaltungBy peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence and creativity- a never ending process.
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