Opinion — How Cuba’s investment in writers and artists came back to haunt its regime

July 26, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

By Carlos Manuel Álvarez The Washington Post November 11, 2022 Carlos Manuel Álvarez is a Cuban author and journalist. In Cuba, hundreds of innocent people are in prison today because they dared to demand freedom a year ago. The “lucky” ones — including Washington Post Opinions contributor Abraham Jiménez Enoa and art historian Carolina Barrero, the subjects of … Read More

#Youth4Disarmament launches Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge

May 27, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

Calling Global Youth!  Check this out…Join the competition.  Details below Lijiang Sun’s winning entry for the Disarmament Poster for Peace Contest in 2016 has inspired the design for the Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge. 24 May 2022 – 12 August 2022 On 24 May 2018, the United Nations Secretary-General published his Agenda for Disarmament, aiming to set our … Read More

April 8, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

Today our friends and participating artists on The Jüdische Kulturbund Project, Namini Panchala with Ajith Kumarasiri, shared a protest song against the government in Sri Lanka. English Translation:  Let’s embrace Let’s kiss Let’s celebrate love We are poor We are hungry We may soon end up six feet under We all have a common enemy The army … Read More

What it’s like to be a Russian artist now

April 3, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

‘You breathe the polluted air’: A dancer, director and conductor reflect on what Putin’s funding, and his war, mean for the arts in Russia By Sarah L. KaufmanApril 1, 2022The Washington Post Olga Smirnova and Vladislav Lantratov perform the ballet “Onegin” at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 2013. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) A couple of months ago, … Read More

Newsletter-Winter 2022

March 25, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

BULLETS TO BOOKS Jok Talks in America Jok Abraham Thon and Gail Prensky standing in front of the Gift of Luxembourg.  The Luxembourg government bought and donated it to the United Nations in 1988. The sculpture is a memorial for John Lennon and a symbol against violence and war. Jok and Bullets to Books Win Youth Peace … Read More

A Ukrainian girl sang ‘Let It Go’ in a Kyiv bunker. She just performed for thousands in Poland.

March 22, 2022By Gail PrenskyUncategorized No Comments

By Annabelle Timsit March 22, 2021 The Washington Post Amelia Anisovych, 7, a refugee from Ukraine, sings the Ukrainian national anthem at a fundraising concert in Lodz, Poland, on March 20. (Marian Zubrzycki/AP) A 7-year-old girl who sang “Let It Go” from the Disney movie “Frozen” inside a bomb shelter in Kyiv is now singing for a different … Read More