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“All of the 29 Pieces MasterPEACE lessons should be required 

for Dallas ISD schools.”

Maria Teresa G. Pedroche, Head of Community Engagement & Connections
Dallas Museum of Art

“29 Pieces’ MasterPEACE lessons support our work in 

social and emotional learning at Salesmanship Club’s Jonsson School

and they will do the same for any school.”
Sandy Nobles, Director of Education

Salesmanship Club Youth and Family Centers (SCYFC) of Dallas, TX

Salesmanship Club Youth & Family Center Professionals Make Collaborative Peace Artwork 3:23 PM

Karen Blessen and Vicki Millican recently trained about 40 professionals at the Salesmanship Club Youth and Family Center.  They conducted a team building and staff development session using the MasterPEACE Commitment lesson.

The small tabs around the edges of the artwork indicate each artist’s individual commitment to peace.

“The MasterPEACE lessons supports our work in social and emotional learning at Salesmanship Club’s Jonsson School, and they will do the same for any school.”

Sandy Nobles, Director of Education

Salesmanship Club Youth and Family Centers (SCYFC) of Dallas, TX

MasterPEACE student artwork

This week of "thankful" reflection brings to mind all those supporters, donors, and friends who have helped us grow the MasterPEACE program and made it such a wonderful success.  You have stood beside us in collaboration and support.  

Our fall training was well attended by teachers from across the Metroplex and now they are teaching their first MasterPEACE lesson to their own students! 

We are so THANKful for your GIVING...your time, treasure and talents...to 29 Pieces and MasterPEACE! Thank you for taking a stand for PEACE for and with our students.  May this holiday week bring peace and thanksgiving to you all!

MasterPEACE Teacher Training 5:17 PM

Teachers from Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, Uplift Charter Schools, L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary and the Maya Angelou High School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens attended last Saturday’s training session.

The entire month of October has been full of MasterPEACE training sessions. Teachers, counselors and staff from ten different schools/organizations were represented in the training.   A 235-page full-color online instructional manual has been produced that teachers are using to bring the 14 art-based lessons on peace and nonviolence to many new classrooms.

MasterPEACE: Young Artists Making a Kinder World has achieved great success in the past year, its fourth in Dallas classrooms. In these four years our staff and volunteer corps of 30 artists and instructors taught the program to over 3,000 children in 16 schools.  This Pilot program to train teachers to conduct the art-based lessons themselves will bring MasterPEACE to thousands more children.

MasterPEACE Facebook Group has been created to encourage sharing of ideas, experiences and student artwork as the teachers/counselors start to conduct the MasterPEACE lessons.

 

MasterPEACE Teacher Training 1:24 PM

MasterPEACE Teacher Training during the month of October! 

We have teachers from several schools and institutions represented, such as Maya Angelou School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens, 

Baylor College of Dentistry, and Multiple Career Magnet School. 

29 Pieces is now accredited by the Texas Education Agency to give staff development credits to teachers who train in MasterPEACE with us.

29 Pieces Celebrates Gandhi's Birthday 1:52 PM

Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Kathiawar, West India. Gandhi studied law in London, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today. 

In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India. Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-4). In 1930, he led a landmark 200 mi march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government monopoly. 

On his release from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic. Even after his death, Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living--making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest--have been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.

ArtLoveMagic Plays in Kickball Tournament for 29 Pieces 11:45 AM

We are excited to announce that ArtLoveMagic is playing for 29 Pieces

in the H4- Hip Hop Helps Heal Kickball Tournament

Sunday, October 7

11:30am - 4:00pm
Norbuck Park

The tournament will feature 8 teams representing 8 different hip-hop, art and music organizations from around the city.  Each team will be playing for a different cause and all the money raised will go to the winning team's chosen charity.

Please come out and support

29 Pieces and ArtLoveMagic!

We are recruiting our cheering section now. RSVP on the FB Event Page

Peace Day September 21, 2012 2:25 PM

Artwork by Logan Scantlon

Whether it’s through music, sports, dance or art, The International Day of Peace a/k/a Peace Day is about spreading peace your way.  Whatever action you take to mark September 21 is up to you.

The nonprofit organization, Peace One Day, founded by the British documentary filmmaker and actor Jeremy Giles, lead a successful campaign to pass UN Resolution 55/282 recognizing September 21 as “Peace Day,” a day of global ceasefire and non-violence.  29 Pieces has a long relationship with Jeremy.  In 2005, 29 Pieces Co-Founder Karen Blessen collaborated with Jeremy to create a children’s book titled “Peace One Day.”

Anyone anywhere can celebrate Peace Day.  It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon or just sitting in silent meditation.

Peace Day is also a Day of Ceasefire- personal or political.  Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as impact the larger conflicts of our time.  Imagine what a whole Day of Ceasefire would mean to humankind!

PEACE DAY September 21, 2012 9:17 AM

Whether it's through music, sports, dance or art, The International Day of Peace a/k/a Peace Day is about spreading peace your way. Whatever action you take to mark September 21, 2012 is up to you.

The nonprofit organization, Peace One Day, founded by the British documentary filmmaker and actor Jeremy Gilley, led a successful campaign to pass UN Resolution 55/282 recognizing September 21 as “Peace Day,” a day of global ceasefire and non-violence. 29 Pieces has a long relationship with Jeremy. In 2005, 29 Pieces Co-Founder Karen Blessen collaborated with Jeremy to create a children’s book titled  “Peace One Day.”

Anyone anywhere can celebrate Peace Day. It can be as simple as lighting a candle at noon, or just sitting in silent meditation.

29 Pieces invites you to our “Make Peace, Make Art” open house on August 25

(124 N Peak, Dallas).  Drop in any time between 10 am - 6 pm and make your masterpeace. Use our art supplies or bring your own. We will help you prepare your art entry for the upcoming Peace Project exhibit.

Peace Day is also a Day of Ceasefire – personal or political. Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as impact the larger conflicts of our time. Imagine what a whole Day of Ceasefire would mean to humankind.

MAKE ART, MAKE PEACE

@ 29 Pieces offices

124 North Peak

Saturday, August 25, 2012

10 am - 6 pm

RSVP kellydtx@sbcglobal.net

Workshop is $25. That includes the $10 Peace Project entry fee, art materials and snacks

Please choose a time slot:

10 am – Noon

Noon – 2 pm

2 pm – 4 pm

4 pm – 6 pm

MAKE ART, MAKE PEACE 1:24 PM

Come to our open house "Make Art, Make Peace" workshop at 29 Pieces, 124 N. Peak St. in Dallas on August 25. Drop in any time between 10 am - 6 pm and make your masterpeace. Use our art supplies or bring your own. Join us for lunch and a good time, and let us help you prepare your art entry for the upcoming Peace Project exhibit. We will enter a digital file of your work. You keep your art. Workshop is $25, which includes the $10 Peace Project entry fee, all art supplies and lunch.

RSVP to kellydtx@sbcglobal.net

About The Peace Project: Over the past two years, artists from around the world have submitted their vision of peace and helped create incredible change through The Peace Project.  On World Peace Day, 2011, The Peace Project led Operation Rise, and distributed 10,000 pairs of crutches across Sierra Leone, Africa, instantly changing the lives of thousands of amputees, war victims, women and children. 

This effort was funded, in part, by The Peace Project’s Annual Call-for-Artists, proving that art truly does change the world.

29 Pieces is pleased to be collaborating with this global effort this year,

and invites Dallas-area artists to join us, and to compete for some great prizes at the same time.

This year, the 29 Pieces offices and gallery will be the first venue for the Peace Project Show, during the Deep Ellum Art Walk on September 22.

MAKE ART, MAKE PEACE 1:56 PM

Come to our open house "Make Art, Make Peace" workshop at the 29 Pieces offices, 124 N. Peak St. in Dallas on August 25. Drop in any time between 10 am - 6 pm and make your masterpeace. Use our art supplies or bring your own. Join us for lunch and a good time, and let us help you prepare your art entry for the upcoming Peace Project exhibit. We will enter a digital file of your work. You keep your art. Workshop is $25, which includes the $10 Peace Project entry fee, all art supplies and lunch. Please RSVP to kellydtx@sbcglobal.net.

About The Peace Project: Over the past two years, artists from around the world have submitted their vision of peace and helped create incredible change through The Peace Project. On World Peace Day, 2011, The Peace Project led Operation Rise, and distributed 10,000 pairs of crutches across Sierra Leone, Africa, instantly changing the lives of thousands of amputees, war victims, women and children. This effort was funded, in part, by The Peace Project’s Annual Call-for-Artists, proving that art truly does change the world.

29 Pieces is pleased to be collaborating with this global effort this year, and invites Dallas-area artists to join us, and to compete for some great prizes at the same time.

This year, the 29 Pieces offices and gallery (124 N Peak St. in Dallas) will be the first venue for the Peace Project Show, during the Deep Ellum Art Walk on September 22.

CALL FOR ARTISTS 1:54 PM

29 Pieces is collaborating with Los Angeles-base nonprofit, The Peace Project, for an exhibit in our offices on September 22. 

The 3rd Annual Call For Artists is now open.

A traveling exhibit will be created from the submissions. All funds raised through the Call For Artists and the traveling exhibit will help fund The Peace Center, proving that art truly does change the world -- and that we are not too small to tackle the world's big problems. For more information on the Call-for-Artists,  CLICK HERE

In 2010, The Peace Project was founded to show that great change can happen very quickly if creative people work together. Since then:

• Two traveling art exhibits have been created and two books published that feature over 1,000 visions of peace from artists worldwide.
• Dozens of children in Sierra Leone are receiving an education through The Peace Project.
• On World Peace Day, 2011, The Peace Project led one of the most unique collaborations ever, Operation Rise, and distributed 10,000 pairs of crutches across Sierra Leone, changing the lives of thousands of people instantly.

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MasterPEACE Program Finalist in Marigold Ideas for Good Competion 1:41 PM

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MasterPEACE: Young Artists Making a Kinder World program of 29 Pieces is a finalist in the international Marigold Ideas for Good competition. 

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Speak What You Feel: Aurora 11:16 AM

Charme Robarts, VP of the Board of Directors for 29 Pieces, wrote this blog about the tragedy in Aurora.  29 Pieces shares this with her permission.

Speak What You Feel: Aurora: Reeling from shock and pain we rush to issues of justice and blame and gun control and violence in entertainment. The pain arouses our ...

29 Pieces Partners with Maya Angelou High School 7:47 PM

We have recently partnered with the Maya Angelou High School for pregnant teens, in which we taught the students our MasterPEACE program.  The lessons from the program instruct and build skills with a unique mix of art projects, real-life improvisation and spoken performance.

Proudly, an installation of the love collage artwork from Maya Angelou students was displayed at the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center from February 14 – April 18. 

The artwork is now on display at City Hall and the Dallas Public Library not until June 14.

2012 Deep Ellum Art Walk 9:46 PM

Come out to the 2012 Deep Ellum Art Walk, in which the public can enjoy art viewing, shopping, music, food and drink. The event is free and most people can easily walk from gallery to gallery.

29 Pieces will have student-created on display in their offices.  Make sure you check us out!

National Latin Recording Artist Cristina Eustace Partners with 29 Pieces 3:45 PM

Cristina Eustace has just been announced as the new celebrity spokesperson for 29 Pieces.  Read more about this announcement at the Dallas Morning News!