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Randi Størseth has made this film from the exhibition that Peacepainting had in the cathedral in Rouen, at the same time as the celebration that it was a thousand years since Olav the Holy was baptized. https://vimeo.com/119381214
On Monday 16 February, Catrine Gangstø had a meeting with Brønnøy Cultural School, with principal Hans Kristian Edvardsen, and the artists Inger Hilde Nyrud and Camilla Orvik. From left: Inger Hilde Nyrud, Camilla Orvik, Catrine Gangstø and Hans Kristian Edvardsen. Photo: Jens Christian Berg.
At the meeting, Brønnøy Cultural School signaled great interest in collaborating more closely with Peacepainting. In the future, Nyrud and Orvik will participate in painting workshops on Helgeland, and in projects abroad. The collaboration with Brønnøy Cultural School will be a good starting point for working more closely with all the cultural schools on Helgeland.
This winter, our general manager Catrine Gangstø has participated in courses for founders, and will receive guidance from Lars Petter Langås at Namdalshagen (Næringshagen, Namsos). Peacepainting is further developing its platform and method. The board updates the business plan that will form the basis for an application for support from Bindal Utvikling AS. Before Christmas, the foundation received new support from Nordland County Municipality, and now hopes that it will be possible to bring the work into a new phase, with permanent operations. The goal to be able to finance more permanent positions. Gangstø also gave a lunch lecture in Namdalshagen in February. On the same day, paintings were also exhibited at Namsos Airport, which is now the eighth airport in Norway with paintings from Peacepainting.
The organization "We are all Citizens"in Greece has contacted Peacepainting, and wants to start a collaborative project in 2015.
Read moreIn November 2014, three representatives from the association SPOC in Bulgaria were in Bindal, Norway to plan a collaboration with Peacepainting. Peacepainting is invited to arrange a painting workshop in Bulgaria in the summer of 2015. SPOC has received grants from the EU and ESF (European Social Fund, separate program under the Council of Europe) to run projects in schools and to the media to promote tolerance and respect. They must fight racism and xenophobia. Bulgaria has received many refugees in recent years, and has many immigrants.
Read more about SPOC and the project here.
On the photo: Catrine Gangstø, Emilia Zgurova, Yuri Katsarov (Ph.D.) and Project Manager Albena Dimitrova.
Avinor wrote the following in a press release in July 2013:
On Wednesday 17 July Bodø airport’s Peacepainting exhibition begins. The exhibition consists of 6 pictures from different nations and is found by Narvesen in the departure hall. The pictures can be seen by children and adults until next summer.
Peacepainting is an independent organisation with its origins in Bindal. The organisation arranges painting workshops for children and youth – such that they can express their thoughts about peace and friendship through a language without speech.
The painting workshops are held both nationally and internationally. Each participant comes forward with their own title and possibly some text about the picture. The message is imparted using a text sign which follows the picture at exhibitions. The most important thing is what the child wishes to impart and the aim is that children’s feelings shall be taken seriously.
- “When we concentrate on listening to and seeing what the children impart, it is certainly easier to remember how it is to be little. It is also easier to make decisions that promote life and variety – both when it applies to near and far relations,” says Catrine Gangstø in Peacepainting.
The pictures are exhibited both nationally and internationally. Today you can see Peacepainting exhibitions in the following Avinor airports:
· Kirkenes airport, Høybuktmoen · Brønnøysund airport, Brønnøy · Bodø airport.
After this, exhibitions have also arrived at these locations: Mosjøen, Namsos, Rørvik, Mo i Rana, Sandnessjøen and at the helicopter terminal in Brønnøysund.
Press release from Nordland County Municipality: Nordland County Municipality has granted 300,000 kroner to the foundation Peacepainting in Bindal for further development of their international commitment within art and peacekeeping for children and youth. County executive for industry, Arve Knutsen, says that a considerable amount of work has been done with the development of Peacepainting, and this stands as a unique idea with a global perspective.
Catrine Gangstø is managing director of the foundation. She had the idea that painting can be used as therapy for children and youth. Contact has been established with a number of countries. As part of the business model, pictures are presented that the children have made, via exhibitions in public places.
The county executive says that so far the work has shown that applicants have received a response which can be grounds for them to take it a step further. This can be a basis to establish and develop a physical centre for the work which can offer courses and accommodation.
- “The gain for Bindal lies in that a whole new business is established in the municipality with some competence-based internationally-looking workplaces. A competence-based business in Bindal can in this area also obtain a grant from internationally-looking programmes,” says Arve Knutsen.
Peacepainting is introduced as a means and concept for relief work of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Red Cross and United Nations in terms of international assignments which demand psychosocial efforts.
“The foundation will use the funds to work to secure permanent operation of the organisation, such that it can continue to work with different projects,” says Catrine Gangstø.
The leadership in the cathedral in Rouen wished for a Peacepainting exhibition in connection with the celebration of Olaf’s baptism in 1014. Olaf the Holy was indeed baptised here 1000 years ago. The event and the training he received in France now strongly influence Norway. In the middle of October there were church services, concerts, talks and other markings of the anniversary in Rouen, with many Norwegian participants. Catrine Gangstø and Randi Størseth were there to arrange the exhibition and document the associated work.
At this marking, with this exhibition Peacepainting participates in promoting the idea of peace, and it focuses at the same time on the wish for peaceful coexistence across cultures in today’s picture of the world.
The exhibition shall hang in the cathedral the rest of the year and will create activities around the theme. Photographer Randi Størseth from Trondheim is making a presentation film.
Peterson Packaging sponsors a project together with Peacepainting, August 2014. Children over the whole world got the chance to express their feelings with colour with the organisation Peacepainting. Peacepainting organises intuitive painting workshops for children and youth – such that they can express themselves through a language without speech. Peterson Packaging in Ranheim supports the project by contributing strong boards which the children paint on. As thanks for our contribution we were presented with a painting by managing director Catrine Gangstø.
The library in the Polish town Proszowice near Krakow has received 1.1 million kroner in support from EEA funds and has started a cooperation with Peacepainting. The project shall run for 2 years. Read about the project at the Arts Council Norway website here. The first phase of the cooperation began in April 2014, when a group of 12 people from Bindal visited Proszowice and Krakow. Seven students from the three comprehensive schools in Bindal participated in workshops in Proszowice together with 80 Polish young people.
At the end of May 2014 a large delegation of 50 Polish people came to Norway. They visited Bindal and Brønnøy. 35 young people and 15 tour guides were accommodated privately. They joined in in hiking to the mountain, Mulingen, in Bindal, and visited Brønnøysund Upper Secondary School and the mountain, Torghatten. They joined in in a painting workshop and met Norwegian young people at a disco.
The project continues in September 2014, when approximately 20 young people from Bindal and Herøy travel to Poland. Report from project travel in Poland September 2014. Read also in Herøyfjerdingen.
A number of Polish young people and artists are coming back to South Helgeland in spring 2015.
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The library in Proszowice, near Krakow, has received considerable support for cooperation with Peacepainting. This shall at first go over 2 years, until April 2016, and involves an interesting cooperation.
A delegation from Helgeland carried out a Peacepainting programme in the first week of December. This comprised events in the city of Sfax in the south, the Kerkennah Islands and in the capital, Tunis. In the picture can be seen representatives from the municipalities Bindal and Herøy. See more in the projects site.
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A project in cooperation with Dønna Culture School, Dønna volunteer bureau and Helgeland Museum. Pictures from the project are exhibited in the locality and other places in the county.
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News report from Ytringen Avis Tuesday 30 July. “Peacekeeping with brushes and colours”.
Department for the United Nations, Peace and Humanitarian Affairs.
Pictures painted by children in Tunisia and Norway were changed out with pictures painted by children from the Skolt Sami project carried out in Norway – Finland – Russia and a picture from the project in North Korea.
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Workshop at Morangbong Comprehensive School.
An interesting meeting of cultures between the girls Kim and Gjertrud.
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