#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

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

For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar

March 19, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

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

Opinion: Volodymyr Zelensky, the modern warrior-artist

March 16, 2022By Gail PrenskyUncategorized No Comments

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

ARTISTS FOR A FREE UKRAINE

March 14, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

CALLING ALL ARTISTS Polish Artist Jerzy Janiszewski created the symbol, using the same original font he used to create the now-iconic symbol for Poland’s Solidarity movement 40 years ago. American artist Lisa Freeman used his symbol to create a mixed media drawing that captures the heroic determination ofthe Ukrainian people to remain free of Putin … Read More

Canceling Russian artists plays into Putin’s hands

March 13, 2022By Gail Prensky No Comments

There are outspoken supporters of his regime, yes, but there are also artists who risk their livelihoods whether or not they denounce him. By Simon MorrisonSimon Morrison is a professor of music and Slavic languages at Princeton University. March 11, 2022 at 12:51 p.m. EST The Washington Post Russian President Vladimir Putin presents the People’s Artist … Read More