The Positive Energy Peace Quilts
Made by people from Gabriola Island and Nanaimo, B.C.,
Canada
"Don't Shoot the
Messenger" |
"Spheres of Influence"
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"The Children
of Iraq
Have Names" |
Peace Quilts made by the Positive Energy
Quilters
In early 2003, the Positive Energy Quilters of Gabriola Island and
Nanaimo, asked people in their
communities to create quilts squares, in reaction to US plans for war in Iraq.
Both children and adults responded, and three quilts were made.
Messages from
the individual quilters are sewn on the backs of their squares.
One of the participants commented,
“I am so inspired by the peace quilt project. As an artist I love the wide
ranging freedom of individual expressions coming together and merging with other
thoughtful voices to make something meaningful, and going on-record with our
collective message as creative, gentle, life-affirming activists: saying no to
an unjust war.”
Four pre-schoolers painted squares after talking in play group about how
peace was like everyone being friends and getting along together. A dozen
grade-school children collaborated in making seven crayoned squares expressing
their hopes for a better world.
The quilts have been taken to peace rallies, to protests
against the U.S. Naval Installation at Nanoose, British Columbia, and to
community events, and were also
displayed at the Peace Quilt Exhibit of the Waterloo County Quilt Festival in
Ontario
.
Two of the quilts will be
displayed in New Zealand in January, 2005
Contact the Positive Energy Quilters: positiveenergyquilters@shaw.ca
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for information about
Raising a Ruckus With Quilts workshops
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