A cooperative Arab-Jewish children's project led to the creation of this peace sculpture, now permanently installed in the Peace Garden at Seattle Center, in the shadow of the Space Needle.  Under the direction of project founder Amineh Ayyad, Palestinian-American, and local Iraqi Artist Sabah Al-Dhaher, Arab and Jewish children came together for many weeks to create this sculpture.  The project was sponsored by The Arab Center of Washington, The Middle East Peace Camp (an Arab & Jewish children's summer camp), Kadima (a progressive Jewish community), and the Iraqi Community Center.

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Through a Thousand Children (9 minutes)

Amineh Ayyad 2005

A Palestinian-American teenager in Seattle reflects on his participation in a local children's peace project and its lessons of empowerment, social justice and equal rights.  Through A Thousand Children is a short documentary about the Middle East Peace Sculpture project, which the filmmaker initiated as a way of healing and in response to the escalating conflict in the Middle East.  It is about children's hopes and aspirations for  peace and justice. 

 

Film screening at Northwest Folklife Festival

Finding Hope through Art  film series

Children's Theater (Eve Alvord Room)

Seattle Center

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

4:15 PM

The Northwest Folklife Festival  is an annual free celebration of year-round ethnic, folk, and traditional arts activities. It brings together an estimated 250,000 visitors, 1,800 volunteers and more than 6,000 musicians, dancers, tradition bearers and visual artists who contribute their time, talent, and energy. This year's festival cultural focus is on the Arab communities of the Pacific Northwest. 

We have to be a thousand children... Sending love...  A thousand children ... With enough warmth to heal us all... A thousand children... Telling our leaders... No More!  There will be no more war... 

From Children's Peace Day  poem. Christopher B. Knaus.  2003

 

More information on other screenings will be posted soon...

 

 

 

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