Workshop at Morangbong Comprehensive School.
An interesting meeting of cultures between the girls Kim and Gjertrud.
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Workshop at Morangbong Comprehensive School.
An interesting meeting of cultures between the girls Kim and Gjertrud.
Sponsored by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat we created a youth exchange to build good relations with our neighbors and expand perspectives across borders. We invited our partners at an agricultural high school in Naryan-Mar, Russia to come to Bindal, Norway.
Read moreThe project in Verkhnetulomsky and Tuloma was part of a larger three-part Peacepainting project to promote the Skolt Sámi minorities in Russia, Finland and Norway.
Read moreOn the 12 April 2013 we got a great review in The Huffington Post: “Peacepainting – What the World Needs to Learn From Children”.
Naryan-Mar was Peacepainting’s second contact place in Russia, and cooperation with an agricultural high school in we created a wonderful project sponsored by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat.
Read moreTo continue our great partnership with School 2010, we travelled back and had new painting workshops with different groups of children from the school.
Read moreWe conducted workshops in collaboration with Youth For Understanding, a non profit exchange organization. Over 70 international exchange students tied to the organization participated in the workshop.
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.
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.
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.
Workshop at Bjerka School in Korgen, Nordland. Subsequent exhibition at the town hall and the volunteer bureau.
Workshop in the old Cooperative in Hommelstø.
Photo: Velfjord.no Børge Rugås.
“My house in Iceland” by Julia.
Workshop at Vevelstad School.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
Culture festival in South Helgeland.
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.
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.