Trainers

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PEACE TILES INDIA

• Trainers Workshop October 14, 2005
• Jaipur, India

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Introductions

• Peace Tiles Instructors
• Kasia Ozga, Artist
• Suzanne Pender, Artist
• Sponsoring Organizations
• Gram Bharati Samiti
• Bhawani Shanker Kusum, Director
• Local NGOs
• Local Schools
• Student Introductions

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2005 Rajasthan Peace Tile Workshops

• Youth Participants
• Jaipur Children Ages _______, school sponsor.
• Jhunjhunu
• Churu
• Karauli
• Jodhpur
• Newai

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World AIDS Day Mural in Jaipur

• December 1 World AIDS Day
• Purpose of the Mural
• Location of the Mural

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Completed Peace Tiles
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Completed Peace Tiles
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History of Peace Tiles

• Children and youth inspiring each other through
  art.
• Peace Tiles is a new global project focusing on
  the transformative power of art.
• The project engages untrained artists, children,
  and every day people in in the art making process
  while learning about important global issues,
  such as HIV/AIDS.

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Peace Tile Objectives

• Mission to raise awareness about the
  vulnerability of children and youth to HIV/AIDS,
  and to provide them with a vibrant, dynamic means
  for self-advocacy and self-expression
• Vision By emphasizing the human dimension to the
  world HIV/AIDS crisis, we will encourage
  individuals and communities to increase resources
  towards addressing and overcoming the pandemic,
  resulting in decreased rates of transmission and
  better care for those already afflicted.

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Peace Tiles Product and Process
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Peace Tiles Product and Process

• Product mixed media collages on 20 cm x 20 cm
  tiles
• Each tile is the artists visual expression
  regarding his or her experience with an issue
  such as HIV/AIDS
• The tiles can address both individual experiences
  with the disease in the childs community,
  encourage awareness and prevention, and describe
  the childs hopes for a brighter future.
• Tiles can be produced in a workshop setting or
  through private contemplation.
• When placed together, Peace Tiles create vibrant
  murals that are installed around the world,
  creating intimate bonds and generating thoughtful
  dialogues between distant people and places.

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Peace Tiles Product and Process

• Process individuals work together to produce
  tiles and murals around a specific theme, such as
  HIV/AIDS.
• Educational
• Participants learn about an issue, both from each
  other and from workshop leaders, and from the
  process of creative exploration and inspiration.
• Therapeutic
• Creating tiles gives simple expression to one's
  emotions in a safe and constructive environment.
• Exploring an issue like HIV/AIDS can raise
  emotions of loss, fear, and anger. Expressing
  these feelings artistically transforms them into
  something to be proud of, enabling the journey of
  healing.
• Communicative
• By expressing their ideas in a visual way,
  participants generate works of art that emphasize
  the personal dimension to global crisis,
  decreasing social stigmas surrounding the
  disease, and encouraging others to share their
  experiences.
• Participants are themselves empowered by sharing
  their vision with a larger audience.

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Peace Tiles Workshop (Uganda)
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Overview How to Make a Peace Tile

• Prepare/Wash Your Work Surface
• Sketch out your ideas either on a piece of paper
  of using pencils, on the tiles itself.
• Create a Background
• Add the Foreground, collaging in personal items
  and artifacts
• Share your tile with those around you, comparing,
  contrasting, making changes

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How to Make a Peace Tile Step 1

• Prepare Your Work Surface
• Wood panel 8 x 8 inches/20 x 20cm
• Wipe down the woods surface with a weak mixture
  of soap and water to remove excess dust.
• Allow tile to dry in the sun or air about 10
  minutes.

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How to Make a Peace Tile Step 2

• Create a Background
• Use any combination of paint, colored markers,
  pastels, fabric, paper (newspaper cut-outs,
  photographs wrapping paper, etc.), or any other
  available media.
• Be sure to use enough glue to firmly attach each
  element to the tile
• Allow to dry for one hour if glued paper or paint
  in the background.

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Peace Tile Artwork
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How to Make a Peace Tile Step 3

• Add the Foreground
• Using liquid glue and a paint brush, carefully
  wet and mount foreground objects like
• a photograph
• a handwritten note or poem
• a piece of colored string or cloth
• a postage stamp from your country
• other artifacts
• Allow to dry up to one hour

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Peace Tile Examples
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Make a Peace Tile More Ideas

• Add a splat or stroke of a color or two.
• Try painting some sand or crushed up egg shells
  and sprinkling it on top of clear drying glue
• Torn paper has an interesting, ragged edge
• DONT overdo it
• STOP when you have expressed what you want to say
• STOP when you think the tile has the right
  combination of color, texture and content

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Curating a Peace Tile Mural
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Curating a Peace Tile Mural
Curating a Peace Tile Mural

• Lay out all of the tiles
• Positively critique tiles
• Discuss relationships between them based on
  theme, color, texture, etc.
• Move the tiles around
• Use consensus to decide which tile relationships
  the group wants to emphasize
• Put the final mural together and document it!
• Send some tiles to partner locations

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Sharing Tiles
Tiles shared with other Peace Tile Partners are
combined to create vibrant murals around the
world, generating discussions between people of
different cultural backgrounds over important
global issues.

• Gulu to Darfur tiles created by the Charity for
  Peace Foundation in July 2005 were shared with
  children in Darfur.

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Documentation

• Take photos of the youth with their tiles, photos
  of the final mural, and photos of the workshop.
• If possible, allow children to take a photo of
  themselves with their tiles
• Instructors will give organizers and host
  communities access to pictures from the workshops
  posted on the internet following completion of
  the Peace Tiles project in India.

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Workshop Information

• Preparation at each location
• Host and Participant Supplies
• Timing and Structure
• Deliverables

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Workshop Information

• Preparation
• Who should attend
• Time commitment
• What trainers and Participants should expect
  creatively, emotionally, etc.

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Workshop Information

• Host and Participant Supplies
• Materials Provided include tiles, paint, brushes,
  markers, colored pencils, glue
• Examples of personal artifacts to bring include
  swatches of fabric, photographs, magazine
  cutouts, poems, string, etc.
• Meals
• Students will receive a snack during the
  workshops and trainers will receive a meal during
  the course of the day

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Workshop Information

• Timing and Structure schedule overview
• Welcome and Introduction, Ice breaker
• Introduce Materials and Safety
• Activity planning your tile, creating the
  Background
• Break for snack/meal
• Activity Composing the Foreground
• Discuss the Finished Tiles
• Curate a Mural
• Hand out certificates and debrief the experience

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From Tiles to Murals
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Partner Workshops and Organizations

• Nyumbani Home, Kenya
• TREE Foundation, Bangladesh
• The women/youth of Actwid Kongadzem, Cameroon
• Outside the Dream, Uganda
• SIDAREC, Kenya
• The Women's Collective, Washington
• United Network of Young Peacebuilders,
  Netherlands
• Mankind AIDS Art Awareness, Berlin, Germany
• SIAM-CARE, Bangkok, Thailand
• Amoration/IHCenter, Los Angeles, California, USA
• FLEX Vermont, USA
• Hope Kenya (Little Lambs Project)

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Mural Homes and Exhibits

• Jaipur, India
• Gulu, Uganda
• Dakar, Senegal
• Nairobi, Kenya
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Washington, DC
• Michigan, USA

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