The Global Peace Tiles Project

12/01/2017

Today we remember all the children, parents, grandparents, caregivers and health workers who have helped us come so far. 🎗️🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️

12/01/2017

I'd like to welcome all of the new friends of Peace Tiles who have found us over the last week. My name is Lars and I'm the project coordinator here, and I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on how to use this process in your community. How can we help? Thank you, and welcome!

11/28/2017

A new website to share an incredible body of work by youth and arts educators, therapists, activists and community organizations around the world:

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11/28/2017

To view more tiles and images from workshops held around the world, visit our Flickr page at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peacetiles/albums

05/26/2016

It has been an incredibly long time since posting here. I wanted to share that about two dozen tiles just returned from Geneva where they had been installed for a decade. They a a beautiful testament to the power of young people's voice on issues of urgency. I'd like to pass them forward, as a mural, to a new home. Am looking for ideas where they could go.

11/18/2015

Mix it up! Thursdays can feel like a long day but it is really rewarding to finish the day with some stimulating conversations and a hard drink. I hope to see you there!

12/18/2012

Day One of a teacher training for a Peace Tiles residency in the Spring. Teachers discussed and gleaned words and images around the meaning of peace building, with some discussion of the tragic losses at Sandy Hook. Part two where we put to compositions together on wood panel will be in January.

11/02/2012

HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, and hope for youth - artwork made by young people around the world. A World AIDS Day exhibition at the Global Fund in Geneva.

09/18/2012

hey everybody - here's the Global Peace Tiles
Project in less than 150 words. Does it work? Would love to help get some mural efforts off the ground! https://www.slideshare.net/larstorres/peacetiles-pitch

03/10/2012

Hey Meron! Peace Tiles may be at the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation gathering in Seattle in October. Perhaps we can get you there to share Salt Spring/Pitseng stories plus...? http://ncdd.org/events

We’re excited to announce that NCDD is holding its 2012 national conference in Seattle, Washington! We’ll be coming together October 12-14 (Friday through Sunday) at the Hyatt at Olive 8 in hipster-approved downtown Seattle. Registration, presenter opportunities, sponsorship details, and other info...

12/20/2011

Hi folks, in case you have a little extra to share at the end of this year, may I recommend Lafond school in Haiti? Let's make an art exchange happen in 2012! https://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/9c7673a38b02413884764b85c283698b?psid=5381c84dc1f043aaaf35c73e9ab9a3b9 - Thank you all, and happy and peaceful holidays to you.

Offer the children of Lafond (Village located in the 9th Section of Petit-Goave,Haiti) and neighboring communities the opportunity to have high quality basic education so they can follow their dreams and contribute to the development of their community.

12/01/2011

Its World AIDS Day and we remember with sadness the grandmothers, grandchildren, orphans, users, widows, brothers, doctors, educators, lovers - the endless string of humanity affected by this disease and its effects over the last three decades. And we can look, with mixed feelings, at the progress and the challenges ahead.

President Obama has pledged $50M in the fight at a time when public expenditures are hard to make. This is cause for celebration. And we feel the lump in our throat knowing that the Global Fund faces shortages it needs to advance country-level progress. We see life expectancy rise in many nations. And we see infection rates rise with them. We see children's lives returning to a semblance of normalcy as they repair in the wake of loss or infection at birth. We also see absurdly short lives in the datelines of gravestones.

HIV/AIDS remains a combative, illusive, painful trial for humanity. And still, we have to hope.

Today, President Obama, Bono, and former presidents Bush and Clinton laid out their optimistic passion and ideas for how this generation can move us toward an AIDS-free world - why we're at the beginning of the end of AIDS. Tomorrow you and everyone you know can start working in ways large and small to help make AIDS history. Join RED or join a another organization or join with us. Just do - or keep doing - something: its making a difference!

As always, I remain hopeful and in awe of the spirit of tenacious compassion that exemplifies this community. It has been an honor and thrill to work with the thousands of young people and countless educators who have powered the Global Peace Tiles project and our modest efforts to bring creativity, education, healing, and advocacy to this work. Thank you, and stay strong.

lars