PEACE OFFERING
This public peace offering took place on Sunday, October 4th 2020 at the Dammrich Rowing Center in Skokie, Illinois. The event was organized by the Year of Kindness and Nonviolent Action, a Public Art and Community Engagement initiative that uses the transformative power of the arts to unite Evanstonians around a common goal—creating a more inclusive, peaceful and kind community.
Peace offerings are a traditional practice where leaves and flowers are sent out into the rivers and seas as gestures of hope and restoration. For this event, members of the community had the option to participate by inscribing the leaves with messages of hope or by submitting their messages online and having the organizers inscribe their messages for them. The resulting leaves were joined together in different patterns and then launched into the North Shore Channel of the Chicago River. Together, we watched the offering float south.
This project is a part of The Peace Studio’s 100 Offerings of Peace Project which uses art as a catalyst to foster dialogue about peace and non-violence. Other partners of the event include Evanston Made, Family Focus, Evanston Public Library, Kids Create Change, Open Studio Project, and Evanston Art Center.
Peace offerings are a traditional practice where leaves and flowers are sent out into the rivers and seas as gestures of hope and restoration. For this event, members of the community had the option to participate by inscribing the leaves with messages of hope or by submitting their messages online and having the organizers inscribe their messages for them. The resulting leaves were joined together in different patterns and then launched into the North Shore Channel of the Chicago River. Together, we watched the offering float south.
This project is a part of The Peace Studio’s 100 Offerings of Peace Project which uses art as a catalyst to foster dialogue about peace and non-violence. Other partners of the event include Evanston Made, Family Focus, Evanston Public Library, Kids Create Change, Open Studio Project, and Evanston Art Center.
Click on the above image to watch video documentation of the October 4th, 2020 Peace Offering.
