Original upload date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:42:51 GMT
PEACE FESTIVAL: Dreaming Peace*
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Gilding Workshop: Hands on workshop provides and works with Egyptian papyrus, gilder's "bole" (clay), glue (garlic!) for leafing, and a
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ctual gold leaf! For parents and children as well as serious artists, the workshop demonstrates the fundamental techniques of gilding. Led by Artist Ellen Frank with intern Emily Deutchman.
Video: "The Making of Cities of Peace" by Academy Award Winning Filmographer Don Lenzer with Eric Glandbard Editor
Poetry Reading: Danny Simmons reads a new poem in honor of Peace. Simmons is creator of Def Poetry Jam, Chairman of NYSCA, and co-founder with his brother, Russell Simmons, of Rush Arts.
Peace Music: Anna Barie and Pat Noecker with vocalist Chelsea Markof Brooklyn-based band These Are Powers will perform a minimal transcendent electronic music score exploring the themes of peace, hope, unity and the overcoming of suffering.
Mike Garcia, aka Colizeth Expansure, lead singer from Brooklyn-based Flaming Pink, will perform a peace inspired acoustic set with guitar.
Gallery Talk: Cities of Peace - Led by Ellen Frank, the visionary founder of the non-profit Ellen Frank Illumination Arts' Illumination Atelier and its Cities of Peace project.
* "Dreaming Peace" honors Martin Luther King's world changing speech "I have a dream" that inspired and galvanized the civil rights movement.
Guild Hall Museum, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, New York 11937 GuildHall.org; 631.324.0806
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