Local Youths Invited to Paint U.S.-Iraq Peace Mural
Mural project July 4, 1- 4 p.m.
Laguna children aged five and older are invited to participate in painting a mural today, July 4, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Endangered Planet Gallery, located in the Lumber Yard Mall at 384 Forest Ave., Suite #13.
The foundation is collaborating with the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange and the Art Miles Mural Project to create a crosscultural mural that will be started here by American children who will work with visiting Iraqi artist Qais Al-Sindy.
Acting as a cultural ambassador, Al-Sindy will then take the partial mural to Amman, Jordan, where it will be completed by Iraqi refugee children and presented to Queen Rania of Jordan.
The finished mural is intended to be testimony to their willingness to work together to create a better world.
The mural created on July 4 will be part of the Iraq Art Mile portion of the Art Miles Murals Project, which is a colorful 10- year movement combining the efforts of children and adults worldwide to promote global peace and harmony through mural art. The project will culminate in September 2010, when 5,000 completed murals from around the world will be displayed as a digitized "skin" of images on a modular, framed "fourth pyramid of peace" in Egypt.
To date, over 2,000 murals have been painted by hundreds of thousands of people in more than 125 countries, and there are 60 cultural exchange murals currently in progress.
For more information, visit the web site at endangeredplanet. org.
