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FLAGS FOR PEACE
This year the International Day of Peace is on a Friday
21 September and special activities and celebrations will take place
all across the globe over the 2012 Peace Day Weekend. Encouraged by
Barry Fiona and Noela, I have decided to run our own Maleny Peace Event that
will involve our local artists in an exciting and worthwhile project
to mark this important day.
This idea is the original dream of our blogger
friend Mary Jane Dodd in the US ... http://mairedodd.blogspot.com.au/ ... and her flags
for peace project is aimed at uniting people from around the
world in a mindful, cooperative and interactive way by sharing images of
flags made and flown on 21 September.
So here's the idea - you make a set of prayer flags
in whatever way speaks to you - metal, paper, fiber, anything you wish to
use... then hang them somewhere on your property on or before 21/09... take a
picture of them in situ ... and send that image into me ... the
image will then be up-loaded onto http://malenyart.blogspot.com.au/ and also sent to Mary Jane
for her to up-load onto her blog. Simple - and a very powerful message.
also ... we will be putting together a
blurb.com book featuring all the Maleny flags ... these books are compiled online
... we hope to get some funding to print enough of these books to present a
copy to our libraries and to also have them available for purchasing
at a pretty reasonable cost.
The main thrust of the project
though is of course to get you - and your friends and your friend's friends
involved in showing the world that Maleny cares about peace in these troubled
times. So I ask you to please consider being part of this exciting
project - and please feel free to pass this email onto others whom you think
may also be interested ....
Please send me a message if you are interested ...
cheers - Ken
3 comments:
How wonderful that you decided to support Mary Jane's project creating a new centre for it! And publishing a book is such a great idea too, I wonder why nobody had thought of it before.
Thanks for sharing and promoting Ken! Here is a link to the blog about the peace flag sis 136project where people are sharing what they make and their thoughts on peace...
http://flagsforpeace2012.blogspot.com.au/
K-thanks for getting this out there to other artists - wouldn't it be great to have a heap of COMA folk contributing to the peace ripples and marking this with an inspirational book of unique peace flags. Here's hoping. B
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