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Art & Human Dignity: Human Rights and Healing Arts for a Culture of Peace

Under the patronage of UNESCO, in partnership with the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Global Peace Education Network (GPEN), Dr. Guila Clara Kessous is organising the forum “Art & Human Dignity: Human Rights and Healing Arts for a Culture of Peace”. The event held on World Art Day aims to examine the positive impact of the arts in promoting global peace, human rights, health, and well-being. As stated by Dr. Kessous, UNESCO Artist for Peace, and Ambassador for Peace of the Universal Circle of Ambassadors of Peace (Geneva): “The impact of art is underestimated today. We have a limited view of the artist as someone who produces beauty devoid of social conscience. In response, many artists decide to combine activism and art to become ‘artivists’ – offering their talents to alleviate suffering, promote peace and prevent war.”
World Art Day - Webinar of Guila Clara Kessous, PhD., UNESCO Artist for Peace

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Spanish and French translation will be available during the Zoom webinar.

The impact of art is underestimated today. We have a limited view of the artist as someone who produces beauty devoid of social conscience. In response, many artists decide to combine activism and art to become ‘artivists’ – offering their talents to alleviate suffering, promote peace and prevent war.

Dr. KessousUNESCO Artist for Peace, and Ambassador for Peace of the Universal Circle of Ambassadors of Peace (Geneva)

This forum, aligned with UNESCO’s mandate to promote the arts as a bridge across cultures, ideologies, languages and geographies, reflects the crucial use of arts as an enabler for healing and social cohesion, contributing to consolidating a culture of peace  

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Programme

 

7:00 PM CET Time - INTRODUCTION

 

7:30 PM CET Time – ART and HEALING 

Roundtable:   Healing through Art

 

Roundtable: “Verstohlen”: The Art of Being Human

 

“Museums on Prescription”: a Canadian initiative

 

8:30 PM CET Time – ART, HUMAN RIGHTS, and SOCIAL HEALTH

The core of Art

 

Roundtable: Ethical Artistic Practice in support of Human Rights and Dignity

 

Artivism

 

9:00 PM – ART and PEACE EDUCATION

Roundtable: Peace Education through Art

 

Roundtable: Peacebuilding through Art

 

Theatre of The Oppressed

 

10:00 PM CET Time – CONCLUSION

African congolese initiative: art to help the fight against child labor in mines

 

Music for hope

 

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Rising voices

Roundtable:   Art Therapy Methodology

 

Roundtable: Art with social and medical impact

 

Roundtable: Art and well being

 

Digital Art and social impact

 

Art and joy

 

Roundtable "Art as a nectar of life"

 

Roundtable "The Art Pledge initiative"

 

Bibliotherapy

 

Beauty, tradition and engagement

 

Being aware of what "Art therapy" does really mean

 

Engage with Art!