Reflections on War & Peace - A Performance Museum

Please join us!
Date 
Sat. Aug. 27, 2011
Time
 8:40 p.m.
Performance
"Voices" and "In Amsterdam" excepts from "The Warrior Tree"
The story of the performers' spontaneous artistic response to a terrorist attack during an International Festival in Amsterdam
Written by Sandra Hughes.
Performed by Sandra Hughes, Michael Hickey
Venue
The Large Gallery
Location
American Friends Service Committee, Georgia Peace Center, 60 Walton Street, NW, Downtown Atlanta - 3 short blocks from the Five Points MARTA Station, Parking available on the street and at parking lots along Cone Street
A Windows and Mirrors Exhibit Event
Followed by:
Reflections on War and Peace: A Performance Museum
Saturday, August 27 at 9:00 pm until Midnight

The performance evening will feature artists from multiple disciplines and connects to themes in the Windows and Mirrors exhibit. We challenge artists to consider and construct work around the social and cultural ways we conceive of war and peace. Our nation has so many conflicting sayings and ideas around war and peace, such as “prepare for peace, but arm for war” this is an evening that will unpack these idioms.

Featured Performers
**Gateway Performance Productions—The MASK Center** Paula Larke and Kim Nimoy with EX-PAND Band** The Art as an Agent for Change Collective **Tom Ferguson w/ drummers **Phyllis Free Association Choir (Elise Witt, Joyce and Jacque and Phyllis Free) **Neil Fried, Priscilla Smith and Guest **Karen Garrabrant**Theresa Davis**Louise Runyon**Nadim Ali**Daryl Funn**Dancing Flowers for Peace**Ursula Kendall Johnson **Bryan Pattillo **Young Nova**Alice Lovelace** JagWonder

The goals for the evening are to bring together artists performing in different mediums and from different generations; present art that challenges the audience; and to connect artists and activists in an intergenerational event. Our objective is to present performance art as a stimulant for social change and raising consciousness.

alovelace@afsc.org or 404.586.0460 ext. 17
American Friends Service Committee’s Atlanta Windows and Mirrors partners include Alternate ROOTS, American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, Arab Spring Committee, Atlanta Friends Meeting, Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace, Clarkston Community Center, Emory Muslim Students Association (MSA), Emory University Center for Ethics, Friends School of Atlanta, Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition/Atlanta, Georgia WAND, The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialist of America, Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, UUCA Peace Network, WonderRoot, and Women Watch Afrika.

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