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This Call Is For Artistic Entries to Support

Nonviolence Locally and Internationally

The Sacred Arts Center & the Kuumba Collective Art Gallery invites you to participate in the 13^th annual Season for Peace and Nonviolence International Campaign (SPAN.) This year, we are inviting artists to support an awareness of nonviolent principles and practices, by artistically creating symbols and images that inspire and stimulate ways to transform and empower our lives and communities.

For this 2010 Campaign, we will raise funds in a way that illuminates vibrant images and stunning symbols underlying the campaign.  We are requesting that you create and donate your art works to SPAN’s Silent Auction.   

Proceeds from this auction will be used to conclude our 2010 Campaign with donations to Sacramento’s women & children currently being served at the
ST JOHN’S SHELTER & to  FORA for Orphans of Rwanda’s Genocide. 

See www.StJohnShelter.org  and www.fora.org websites for more information about these organizations.  

From January 30th through April 4, 2010, all donated Art Works will be exhibited and auctioned off during the 64 days of the SPAN Campaign at the Kuumba Collective Art Gallery located at 1001 Del Paso Blvd. Studio 1, Sacramento, CA.  .

Season for Peace and Nonviolence was co-founded in 1998 by Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson and the Association for Global New Thought, to demonstrate that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. The dates of the Season commemorate the anniversaries of the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 30 and April 4, respectively. 

As a human family we are asking the questions: “How can any act of violence be recognized as a solution to the consequences of violence that we face today?”  Violent actions and reactions are the scars of social, educational, and economic wounds…the voices of a spiritually inarticulate culture.

The practice of nonviolence is initiated by choice and cultivated through agreement. The time has come to agree upon this as a global community as if our lives, and those of our children’s children, depended on it.  Our vision is of a better world for all human beings.

Gandhi, King, Chavez and the Season for Peace and Nonviolence teach us that the power for social change lies within individual consciousness.  That if we really want to create a wise and loving world, we must first become wise and loving ourselves.

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”