MONTREAL/February 3, 2006—
From February 6 to 8, Concordia University will present Folding together: A Peace Building Project, a display of origami projects created by Israeli and Palestinian children, as well as lectures and a ìfoldingî workshop. The presentation is part of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Academic Lecture Series, organized by the Departments of Chemistry and Biology, and the Science College.
This project is a grassroots origami peace-building project based in Jerusalem, Israel, originated and guided by the Israeli Origami Center and funded by the Grassroots Development Fund of the Foreign Ministry of Japan. In the project, 20 Israeli and 20 Palestinian children learn origami together over 12 sessions. To date, there have been four such courses.
The intention of the courses is for the children of both sides to be with each other, to sit together, to work together and to learn about each other, face to face, in a culturally neutral environment of fun and co-operative creativity. In this way, the children replace fear and ignorance of the other side, with respect and trust.
The display will take place from February 6 to the 8, on the mezzanine of the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West). The lectures and workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 8, beginning at 4 p.m. in room SP- 110 of the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex on the Loyola Campus (7141 Sherbrooke Street West).
The lecture will be presented jointly by the Israeli (Jewish) and Palestinian (Muslim) co-leaders of the project, Miri Golan and Abeer Mughrabi, and by the non-Jewish, non-Muslim creative director, Paul Jackson. They will describe the content and success of the project. Special features will include extracts from project diaries kept by the children and an exhibition of origami art made by the children. In addition to the lectures and discussions, there will be a co-operative ìhands onî origami workshop in which everyone can experience the methodology of the project.
For more information, please contact Louis Cuccia, at (514) 865-2858, cuccial@alcor.concordia.ca or visit: http://peace.concordia.ca.
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Source :
Tanya Churchmuch
Senior Media Relations Advisor
Concordia University
