Program Overview:
The Women of Vision in the Holy Land,
2009, is planning the first in a series entitled: The World Vision Art Project,
based on the principal of "Healing Separation". Women will
gather together across cultural, geographical and religious borders to
co-create artistic bridges together.
The intended result is to display
visual art, theatrical art and music at a 5-day residential conference called Heart: Remember, Heal, Transform: Healing Separation through Art, Mediation, Ceremony and Circles, from October 19-23, 2009, occurring in
Nahariya, in the north of Israel/Palestine. This conference will feature The
World Vision Art Project along with deeper training in Ceremonial Art. Click here to Donate Now!
We have successfully raised $15,000 in 2009 to forward The World Vision Art Project. Click here to learn more and to follow our progression with The World Vision Art Project!
Objective:
Art provides the opportunity for the "unheard"
voices of women to express themselves and their vision. Art is a reflection of
the culture, and is a force of the healing aspect of femininity. It
provides a medium for and essential transformational process which all people,
of all ages, can relate to and participate in.
The Art Project Began in 2008:
The enclosed photographs show a gathering of Arab and Jewish
women who gathered in a Bedouin Village
in September 2008 to initiate The World Vision Art Project where women gathered
to express their feelings of wholeness and to experience a multi-cultural
community. Each woman worked on her own project for nearly
an hour. These pieces were presented,
and spoken about in the circle. The women then gathered into small groups of
four, with Arab and Jewish women mixed together in each group.
They were then asked to cut their ‘wholeness art’ in
half…and to speak about how it felt to ‘create separation’ intentionally, with
the apparent result of destroying their work.
The next instruction was to create new art from all the cut pieces. Once the groups of four accomplished that, they then
contributed to a large piece of paper, attaching the new art, and then writing
words and prayers on the large sheet.
The day ended with a body sculpture expressing their prayers for peace,
and the realization that separation was a choice. They each took a moment to envision a
situation where they might next experience separation, and to imagine that they
did in fact then choose wholeness and peace.
Songs were sung, hopes and dreams were shared, and the women all
experienced the co-creation of a multi-cultural village. The experience was
healing and tender for many...
The Vision:
The vision is to encourage other forms of artwork to be
co-created in small groups of Israeli Jews, Muslim and Christian Arabs, earth-based
traditions and secular women in Israel/Palestine. Artwork can be music,
photographs, video clips, theater, visual arts – the defining element is that
it involves the theme of “Healing Separation”, and must be executed by women
who are culturally or religiously diverse. They will also be asked to write a
brief statement of the experience that they had in the process of creating art together.
Women with creative ideas will apply to
the Middle East organizers, who will choose four or five
projects which meet the criteria for the grant which would support their
project to completion by October 2009.
The Goal: The goal will be to display the art in various
locations. The first display will be from
October 19-23, 2009, at Heart:Remember, Heal, Transform, a 5-day residential conference produced by The Women of Vision. We are requesting your support to bring
this vision into manifestation.
Donations are tax deductible through All Season’s Chalice, Please note on your donation that the project you support is The Women of Vision. We thank you for your contribution and good will!
Phase One Fundraising Goal = $15,000 Raised
Raised and distributed to three projects, with small stipends to facilitators in the Holy Land
Phase Two Fundraising Goal = $20,000 by October 2009
To continue to support the project by staging and promoting
it at Heart: Remember, Heal, Transform Conference, from October 19-23, 2009 in
Nahariya, Israel/Palestine; to continue to gather more artistic contributions, and
consider staging an art show in several large cities, starting in the Middle
East, and expanding to Europe and the U.S., as well as on several social
networking websites which will be designed to be accessible to many. This way, the message of “Healing Separation”
can be experienced by many, as it is a theme that affects people in every part
of the world.
Total Project Budget: $ 35,000
We are more than half way to our project funding goal and deeply
appreciate your contributions to further The World Vision Art Project.
The Women of Vision, World Vision Art Project PO Box 2180, Boulder, CO 80306
303-786-8681
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