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BELOW: A one minute video on love in action, its worth a minute! A summary of what is here!
The Fullcirclemandala project was created to use art as a tool for healing and communication. Having gone through personal healing with the aid of an artistic practice, there remained the impetus to create with others in empathy, compassion, and awareness. Using the premise of equality in diversity, we created projects with love for humanity. Here are some of our projects, with the warmest of thank you to the funders, who supported us with the greatest kindness:
Chalker’s foundation, JFC, Charles Bronfman foundation, Visual Arts Centre, Canada Council, Unesco, Engrenage Noir, and others.
World Council of Churches for the United Nations Kyoto Conference on Climate Change in Montreal -we gave workshops on how climate was affecting us and the participants vowed to create a small action of whatever they could to help participate. We created a collective mandala with people of all nationalities and ages- from 2- 90 years of age, drawing our intentions to support on the mandala as a community.
This mandala was presented to Stephan Dion at the conference, as well as a video created by Helga on the beauty of the creation of the planet. Helga was on board with the World Council of Churches to help create a 3 hr event using the arts, to bring awareness to climate change, and found funding for a good portion of the project. This event took place in front of 3,000 people including the public and the United Nations Delegates. Funded by the World Council of Churches, Unesco and the Canada Council for the Arts. Pictures below.
video on screen 30 ft) and mandala (9 ft)
Meeting in the Middle – A collaboration with the Visual Arts Centre, the Montreal Dialogue Group, and the Fullcirclemandala project. We brought together a group of Muslims and Jews, mostly Israelis and Palestinians for a project on Peace based on understanding each other’s humanity. One person had her home bulldozed and created lamps out of the now worthless deeds of her ancestor’s lands, adding old keys that no longer were usable, passed down from generations, and another wrote a play on paper she made out of Arab and Hebrew old newspapers, taking the point of view of her brother’s killer, a suicide bomber, as “standing in another’s shoes”. We created an installation mandala which was shown at the McClure Gallery in Montreal, and at the UN (United Nations Secretarial Building) in New York City. PHOTOS More explanation here
The Three Schools Project- We brought together three schools – A Jewish school (Akiva), a Muslim school (École Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens), and a Christian school (The Priory), during a difficult period of religious relationships in Montreal. Click here for video link.
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