Peacepainting course in which young people from Norway and other countries took part. The course was held where we plan to build an art and peace centre for children and youth.
Baaskifestivalen i Nordreisa - juni 2012
Vi gjennomførte workshops etter invitasjon fra ihana som har som mål å formidle og fremme kvensk kultur og tre stammers møte. Ihana er kvensk og betyr fantastisk, herlig! Ca 90 barn deltok.
June 2012 - Baaskifestivalen, Nordreisa, Norway
We carried out workshops after invitation from ihana which aims to impart and promote Kvensk culture and the “tre stammers møte”. Ihana is Kvensk and means “fantastic”, “brilliant”! About 90 children participated.
March 2012 - Korgen
Workshop at Bjerka School in Korgen, Nordland. Subsequent exhibition at the town hall and the volunteer bureau.
Velfjord, Nordland – April 2012
Workshop in the old Cooperative in Hommelstø.
Photo: Velfjord.no Børge Rugås.
“My house in Iceland” by Julia.
Brønnøysund Culture School – January 2012
Workshop at Vevelstad School.
France – January 2012
The Peacepainting leader accompanied Torgar Business Garden to Rouen, Le Havre and Honfleur to make contacts with those who had expressed an interest in advance. Workshops were carried out and connections are under way. Two people will continue with this method in France.
October 2011 - Moscow
Peacepainting and Éspace des Arts from Tunisia visited a school and carried out workshops with 17 and 10 year olds in Moscow. We had one youth and one child from Norway with us. We also had with us an exhibition that was mounted in connection with an anniversary which occurred at the same time as we were there.
Gangstø – November 2011
In November 2011, 20 Brønnøysund scouts spent a weekend at Gangstøa. We painted and went for walks in the local environment. We visited, among other things, the Bindal rural museum, the forminnerløypa that has forminner from the Viking Age and the Iron Age, and we also visited burial mounds etc. Two people from Sri Lanka were here. They invited Peacepainting to their homeland. Cooperation is under way.
February 2011 - The culture school in Sør-Varanger
During the festival “Barents Days” in Kirkenes in February 2011, we participated via the culture school with a workshop “Children paint for peace and friendship between people and nations”.
The Bindalseid Days – July 2010
Culture festival in South Helgeland.
The St Olav Festival, “The Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities”, Trondheim Kunstmuseum and Peacepainting – July 2009
We carried out workshops with children from different religious communities during the St Olav Festival in Trondheim in 2009 and 2010. Children painted after inspiration from the book “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. This was followed by exhibitions at the Trondheim Kunstmuseum. Håkon Bleken participated with a work.
Workshops in Bindal 2007-2012
The idea goes back to 1993. Various try outs ended up in a permanent educational arrangement which was used actively across cultures. The Church of Norway was the first to invest funds.
Moscow
In cooperation with the Tunisian art organization Éspace des Arts and the Russian Embassy in Oslo, Norway, Peacepainting and Éspace des Arts travelled together to Moscow to hold painting workshops at School 2010.