12seconds for Peace Links Up with the Create Peace Project

 

12seconds for Peace is in the process of linking up with the Create Peace Project; an 'arts-for-peace-education non-profit organization' based in San Francisco, California. CPP is the brainchild of Ross Holzman, who is it's founder and executive director and who has asked 12seconds for Peace to contribute to and partner with CPP over the 'Capture Peace' video component of their new educational resource: an arts for peace curriculum.

This is the Creat Peace Project mission statement:

Create Peace Project is an arts-for-peace-education non-profit organization. Through our work with people of all ages, our mission is to foster self-awareness, strengthen communities, and spread peace through creativity on a global scale. We achieve this by facilitating collaborative arts workshops and promoting positive peace practices through our arts-for-peace projects.

It is this commitment to the arts, along with the fundamental commitment to the fostering and building of peace in the world, that makes 12seconds for Peace and the Create Peace Project such ideal partners.

You will see the results of this link-up over the coming months as 12seconds for Peace contributes and develops a presence in partnering with the CPP over their 'Capture Peace' educational resource. For now, here are two videos that will give you a good idea of what the CPP are all about:

If you want to find out more about the Create Peace Project, you can find their website here: Create Peace Project, or by clicking on the logo either in the sidebar of this blog or on the logo above.

Peace,

Steve Gooch for 12seconds for Peace

12seconds for Peace - An Interview with Talent Spotlight Magazine, January 2011

It was with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I recently accepted the chance to do an interview for Talent Spotlight Magazine with the magazine's founder; Jessica Gilbert. Ranging across my work as a writer and artist and my involvement with Reiki and of course the motivations and creation of the global peace phenomenon '12seconds for Peace', Jessica's interview covers a lot of ground and I hope that you find it as interesting to read, as I did to do.

Talent Spotlight Magazine, launched in November 2010, is rapidly making it's mark as a beacon of progressive and dynamic arts coverage. If you are interested in the arts, then TSM is a great place to stay abreast of what is happening around the globe. You will find a plethora of artists covering many disciplines in this and previous issues and you can read the January issue of TSM by clicking the link here: Talent Spotlight Magazine.

Below is the promo video for the latest - January issue of TSM.



Much metta,

Steve Gooch for 12seconds for Peace

12seconds for Peace - Elizeth Labega - 2

Peace is our goal - war is not the answer. So says Janet Jacquier in a new video from Elizeth Labega at the Monterey Peace Rally in California that took place on November 13th 2010. Peace is something that we all need to strive for, however we define it.



Get involved, in whatever way that you can in pushing for peace. Peace groups exist all over the world and they are all asking for the same thing: the end to violence against our fellow human beings and the establishment of peace for all. It can be done, but we need to insist on it and make it happen.

One way that you can get involved is by making your own 12seconds for Peace video and sending to: 12seconds4peace@gmail.com

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12seconds for Peace - Judith Gigg

Judith Gigg has been a firm supporter of 12seconds for Peace for some time now and having had a number of technical problems over the last few months, it seemed as if we would never receive her much-promised video. But as a testament to her belief in this project and all that it is trying to do, she recently came through with her promised statement for peace video.



Judith has been a counsellor for the past twenty six years and is a member of the British Psychological Society and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. She devotes a great deal of her time to helping those in need - particularly young people.

You can find out more about her work here at: Open Palm.

Peace,

Steve Gooch for 12seconds for Peace

12seconds for Peace - ViΩLeT ft. Deniz Sujana

Something of an advertisement this may be, but it is with pleasure that we bring you a video clip from the Turkish funkrock band ViΩLeT featuring Deniz Sujana. Writing their own songs and using mostly Turkish lyrics,ViΩLeT have been heavily involved in the peace movement for some time, and in 2008 performed their song Peacin' that appears on this video as a part of the Global Peace Rally.



You can get a free download of the track Peacin' with Deniz Sujana's beautiful vocal by going to the following link: Peacin'. Or if you want to connect up with ViΩLeT, then you can find their Facebook fan page here: http://bit.ly/ViOLeT_Fanpage and Deniz Sujana's Fanpage is here: Deniz Sujana. If you are interested in what the Global Peace Rally are all about, and to catch up with what they are doing, then you can also find them on Facebook here: Global Peace Rally.

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Steve Gooch for 12seconds for Peace

12seconds for Peace - Clare Brumby/Clare Makes Films

Here is a wonderful little video from Clare Brumby and the crew of Clare Makes Films originally called 'Peace Process'. Clare noted 

"'Peace Process' is a stop-motion animation that shows the construction on an origami peace crane which illustrates that peace is a never-ending process.The short was made by the crew at clare makes films and in its original format it was used as a trailer for our 'Peace Talks' chat show that took place on November 1st 2010 at the 'Bed-in at the Bluecoat,' a 60-day bed-in style protest commemorating the famous bed-in's by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969. Our non-violent peace protest championed the cause of dialogue in avoiding and resolving conflict through our chat show 'Peace Talks.'"



'Clare Makes Films' is an independent media production company based in Merseyside in the UK which has built up a track record of productions for most of the UK main broadcasters including Channel 4, the BBC and Granada. Clare Makes Films have also been involved in work for Merseyside Refugee & Asylum Seekers Support Group (MRANG), Libra Television, Real Life Media Ltd, CSV Media Training North, Ministry of Defence.

You can find out more about Clare Makes Films here: Clare Makes Films.

12seconds for Peace would like to offer its thanks to Clare and the crew at Clare Makes Films for their fantastic video!

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Steve Gooch for 12seconds for Peace.

12seconds for Peace - Elizeth Labega

A beautiful video from Elizeth Labega with footage from a rally held by The Peace Coalition of Monterey County, California in the USA on 13th November this year - just in. Thank you Elizeth!

Elizeth commented that the rally was held to push for an "...end to American involvement in war and more effectively use the resources currently being consumed by war.  The rally united people from a wide variety of walks of life and political affiliations."



Peace can be achieved if we all come together and stand as one voice and insist on it. If you find yourself at a peace rally anywhere in the world, why not make a 12seconds for Peace video while you are there and send it in? Once your rally is over, its message can live on through this project. Send your videos in to: 12seconds4peace@gmail.com

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12seconds for Peace - Rohani Razak

Another great video in from Rohani Razak from Singapore - peace is the only way to go, as Rohani makes clear. But how can we achieve peace? How can we let those in power know that this is what we want? How can we make them realise that the majority of people on this planet have had enough of the war-mongering, the hate, the excuses to justify violence against our fellow citizens? One way is to contribute to this project. If enough people engage with 12seconds for Peace - if enough people stand together and let those in power know that peace is our wish, our right, our demand, then perhaps we stand a chance of achieving it.



Send your 12seconds for Peace video in to: 12seconds4peace@gmail.com

Peace,

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12seconds for Peace - Zententions - 2

Another great video in this time from Jen and Billie at 'Zententions'. Their message, 'We are free to be change makers' is really the dawning in all of us that we are the ones that decide whether there is peace in the world or not. Peace is not an abstract concept or a theoretical construct; it is the state of reality, once we realise that we can in fact, through the force of our own intentions, change the way that the world is.It is entirely up to us.



The photographs used in this video are by Zen photographer Stephen Chard.

Peace,

Steve Gooch for 12seconds for Peace

12seconds for Peace - Litana Somoano - 4

Another great video in from Litana Somoano - something of a regular contributor to this project! Litana is now represented across all three of our compilations: '12seconds for Peace - The First Ten Minutes', '12seconds for Peace - Ten Minutes Later' and of course with this video, on the next compilation: '12seconds for Peace - Revolution!'.



If you would like to add your voice to this growing project, then you can send your video in to: 12seconds4peace@gmail.com

Peace,

Steve Gooch for 12seconds for Peace