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
Author: Gail Prensky
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
‘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
‘Concert between explosions’ provides respite in Kharkiv subway shelter
By Meryl Kornfield and Adela Suliman March 27, 2022 The Washington Post Musicians play for people staying in a subway station used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv on March 26. (AFP/Getty Images) In a Ukrainian city hit hard by Russia’s invasion, five musicians brought their instruments underground — seeking to drown out the thunderous explosions with their … Read More
Before leaving her apartment in Kyev she plays the piano for the last time…
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Newsletter-Winter 2022
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.
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
For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar
Ihor Kalynets, 83, spent a lifetime resisting Soviet domination. Now, he says, he’s not going anywhere. More than habit, or age, what keeps Ihor Kalynets, 83, in Lviv, Ukraine, is his entire life history, which has been one of resistance driven by a deeply rooted connection to his homeland.Credit…Ivor Prickett for The New York Times … Read More
Odessa’s beloved opera house plays starring role in wartime drama
By Isabelle Khurshudyan March 17, 2022 The Washington Post ODESSA, Ukraine — The barricades blocking the path to the Odessa Opera and Ballet begin three blocks away. Two more walls like that further protect the entrance. Antitank hedgehogs — metal rods welded together in a cluster — fill the spaces between the cordons. It’s a scene … Read More
Opinion: Volodymyr Zelensky, the modern warrior-artist
By Kathleen Parker, Columnist Yesterday at 6:12 p.m. ED The Washington Post A video of a duo singing “Endless Love,” the 1981 song by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, identified the singers as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife, Olena Zelenska. It immediately went viral.Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates If something seems … Read More