Art for Peace

5th Annual King Celebration

5th Annual King Peace Program

American Friends Service Committee/Atlanta Southeast Regional Office

5th Annual King Peace Program

Celebrating the Peace Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The evening includes:

Signs of Peace

Members of the Atlanta Friends Meeting participate in a peace demonstration.

STREET SIGNS

An exhibit of photographs by Jim Alexander documenting the mass struggle for social and economic justice in the South.

The Georgia Peace Center is excited to host this exhibit during the peace season, January 14-April 7, 2012.  We plan to use the exhibit and the strong messages it communicates to continue building connections and bonds between the growing interest among working class communities in the Peace and Justice movement.

Windows and Mirrors is the American Friends Service Committee’s traveling exhibit that provides an opportunity to see ourselves in depictions of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of artists and children.

September 21: exhibit
“Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace 2011” (including art, political cartoon
and Japanese comic books) opens at CMU, 4th floor of Hunt Library. Dessert
reception at 4:30 pm at Maggie Murph Café, first floor. Through November 18.

Standing on Sacred Grounds

Performing artists Paula Larke and Kim Nimoy

The performance evening will feature artists from multiple disciplines and connects to themes in the Windows and Mirrors exhibit.  We challenge artists to consider and construct work around the social and cultural ways we conceive of war and peace. Our nation has so many conflicting sayings and ideas around war and peace, such as “prepare for peace, but arm for war” this is an evening that will unpack these idioms.