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Timeline - 2001
Kids For Peace at NGO
Sub-Commission of Human Rights
August 3, 2001
UN Palais Des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Kids for Peace participated again in the 53rd session of the NGO Sub -Commission of Human Rights in 2001.
Kids For Peace Awarded the 2001 Gold Medaille d’ Excellence, August 3, 2001 in the category of YOUTH at the FETE d’EXCELLENCE at this time in related events.
On August 6, 2001, Gayle was a delegate representing Kids for Peace on the UN/NGO Roundtable "The Art of Making Peace," at the Palais des Nations.
Kids For Peace postcard workshops were held again this time for two days in the Fete d’ Geneve in Central Jardin Anglais Park.
2001
My Movie: Portraits of My Neighborhood was a community-based public art project concieved and directed by Gayle Gale/KidsFor Peace, which involved local fifth grade students from El Marino Language School, El Rincon School, Farrragut School, La Ballona School, and Linwood Howe School. Carol Bishop, Angela Briggs, Gayle Gale, Candice Gawne, and Richard Godfrey served as artists in-residence and Phyllis Chang and Karen Golden as resident storytellers to create a "film storyboard mural" with students and teachers.
Each school created six 3' high x 6' wide panels. Five of the six panels were assembled by students as murals for their respective schools. These schools donated their sixth panel to Sony Pictures Entertainment. These are now displayed in the lobby of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Plaza Building.
My Movie: Portraits of My Neighborhood
Thirty Six 3' h x 6' w canvases
10202 Washington Boulevard (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
2001
Mercado La Paloma and Esperanza Community Housing Corperation, South Central Los Angeles, CA
An exhibition was held of the painted tiles from Brazil in Mercado La Paloma. These were made by the homeless street kids at Projecto Ibeji in Salvador, Bahia. Postcard workshops were held at the Esperanza Community Housing. Mercado La Paloma is a comprehensive community development project of the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation.( ECHC). Some of the postcards made in these workshops were brought to Spain as part of a postcard exchange program. Postcards created in Spain were brought back to participants at the ECHC
