• sewing machines
• thread
• sewing scissors
• art supplies for the one room schoolhouse
• *markers, crayons, paints, canvas, sketchbooks, etc.
• lap top computers and printers
• ink for printers

We are also looking for the following donations to the community health center. Artists for World Peace will be traveling to Tanzania in August. If anyone would like to donate any of the following, please drop them off at Cold Stone Creamery on Friday, June 25th between the hours of 6:00-9:00 p.m. or call our office and we will arrange another time. (860) 347-4219:

Needed are:

• Sewing machines, new or in excellent condition.
• Sewing supplies: fabric, thread, needles, tape measures, pins
• Lap top computers, new or in excellent condition.
• Office supplies such as pens, pencils, computer paper, paper clips, scissors.
• Art supplies: paint, brushes, canvases, sketch pads, markers, crayons
• Brand new shoes. (for boys and girls ages 3-18).

On August 1st, a group from Artists for World Peace will be traveling to Moshi, Tanzania. Our work there involves raising the funds to “Raise the Roof!” on a community health care center, as well as to bring supplies, and much love, to the orphans living at Good Hope. The target date for the completion of the community health center is December 1st. Please follow us on our website and face book as we continue to post our fundraising efforts, the list of supplies we are looking to have donated, as well as the trip itself.

A group of Wesleyan students is teaming up with Artists for World Peace to do a research project about Middlesex students’ access to higher education in the arts. We are looking for high school students,college students and parents to interview.

All participants will be entered in a raffle to win a $100 visa gift card.

Contact us if you’re interested!
518-852-0559
egreenstein@wesleyan.edu

Download the “Are you an artist” flyer

Dance Chairwomen: Ellie Toy and Lucile Blanchard

As part of Artists for World Peace: Children of Peace Projects, we at Artists for World Peace, will be joining forces with Gina Athena Ulysse for a benefit to help make the dreams of these 10 children come true. Join us for an evening in celebration of Haiti.

Date: Friday, March 19th, 2010
Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Ticket Price: $40.00
*100% of proceeds from the evening will be donated to INURED Cite Soleil Scholarship Program

Location: The Hubbard House
377 Ridge Road
Middletown, Connecticut

To reserve your tickets please contact Artists for World Peace, at wendyblacknasta@aol.com or mail $40.00 to

Artists for World Peace
P.O. Box 95
Middletown, Ct. 06457

BIO

Gina Athena Ulysse is an anthropologist, poet/performance and multi-media artist. Born in Haiti, she migrated to the States in her teens. She earned her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1999. Ulysse engages in public scholarship mainly through her performance and other artistic works. Even before receiving her Ph.D. in anthropology, she has been pushing the boundaries of cultural anthropology with her spoken word, which she considers an “alterednative” form of ethnography. She uses this medium to capture the visceral that is often absent in structural accounts. With this genre, she dramatizes and addresses issues of social (in)justice, her intersectional identities, spirituality and her rage at the dehumanization of Haitians and other marked bodies. Her performance work clearly outlines the persistent impact and horror of colonialism.

Some of her poetry and prose publications include: “A Poem About Why I Can’t Wait: Going Home Again and Again and Again: Why I Prefer the Term Incarcerated When Talking about Agency” in The Butterfly’s Way: Voices From the Haitian Diaspora in the United States, edited by Edwidge Dandicat; A series of her poetry entitled “I Came of Age Colonized Now my Soul is Tired and I am Feeling All this Rage” was published by Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies; “Homage to Those Who Hollered Before Me” in Meridians: Feminism, Race and Transnationalism; “Water Spirits and Revolutionary Barbies” and “Ode to the Metres: On Going Home and Learning How to Glide” in Ma Comere, Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Her work has also appeared in several anthropological anthologies: “Concepts of Home” in Women on the Verge of Home, edited Bilinda Straight (SUNYPress) and “My Country in Translation” in Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights, edited by Faye V. Harrison  (AltaMira Press).

A dynamic and riveting performer, described as by a reviewer as “a fantastic whirlwind of word and emotion, transforming Haiti from an objective abstract to a subjective reality,” Ulysse has performed her one-woman show “Because When God is too Busy; Haiti, me and THE WORLD”—a monologue that weaves spokenword with Vodou chants— throughout the States as well as Bluestockings Bookstore, The Bowery, Brecht Forum, LaMaMa, Lyric Stage Theatre in Boston, Center Stage in Santa Barbara among others. She has also performed at conferences including the American Anthropological Association Meetings, American Ethnological Association Meetings, PRISM conference and in various colleges and universities including Bates College, Berry College, Brown University, Emerson College, New School for Social Research, Oberlin, University of Florida, University of Miami, Williams College among others. She has also performed in Europe. She was invited to close the Berlin’s House of World Cultures Black Atlantic Project in 2004 with a performance of her poetry. Her first book, Downtown Ladies was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. When she is not expressing her rage on the stage, she is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, African-American Studies and Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She is the co-founder and director of the Haiti Illumination Project (HIP).

For more info:

http://www.ginaathenaulysse.com/

http://works.bepress.com/gina_ulysse/

http://www.potomitan.net/

]]> http://www.artistsforworldpeace.org/2010/03/10-children-10-dreams/feed/ 0 http://www.artistsforworldpeace.org/2010/03/dr-yoram-kaufmann-scholarship-fund/ http://www.artistsforworldpeace.org/2010/03/dr-yoram-kaufmann-scholarship-fund/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:07:35 +0000 admin http://www.artistsforworldpeace.org/index/?p=934 From: Wendy Black-Nasta
Founder/Executive Director
Artistsforworldpeace.org

As founder and executive director of Artists for World Peace, I launched The Dr. Yoram Kaufmann Scholarship Fund in December 2009. Artists for World Peace, an international non-profit organization dedicated to fostering peace through artistic expression, will use the funds to enable children around the world to attain an education. Beginning with children from the Santa Clara Orphanage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we aim to eventually sponsor a child in each country.

Anyone who knew Yoram (and who knows his wife, Rise), will understand the urgent need I felt to honor this beloved teacher, humanitarian, and friend. So, this past summer, Artists for World Peace conducted all of its humanitarian work in his name. With funds collected in Yoram’s memory, we bought over 500 pairs of new sneakers, which we hand delivered to the children of Santa Clara in Rio de Janeiro.

The Dr. Yoram Kaufmann Scholarship Fund, however, will enable us to permanently honor Yoram’s memory. Since he touched so many lives as a brilliant producer and sharer of knowledge, I thought it most fitting to educate children in his name. Our goal is to raise $100,000.00 this year. We will safely invest the principal and use the interest to create annual scholarships. Building upon the principal each year through donations, Artists for World Peace will help change the lives of our world’s children for generations while also honoring Yoram’s memory.

It is not often that a humanitarian, scholar, teacher, and man of integrity crosses our path and lights the way for so many. Please help us continue Yoram’s legacy by supporting the Dr. Yoram Kaufmann Scholarship Fund. All donations are tax -deductable and will be acknowledged on our website and in our promotional literature.
Donations will be gratefully received at:

Artists for World Peace
P.O. Box 95
Middletown, CT. 06457

To learn more about Dr. Yoram Kaufmann, please visit www.zahavbooks.com