Dear Friends,

As the Muslim people are praying while observing Ramadan, the Jewish people are about to welcome their 5771 New Year with prayers for Peace. Here and around the world, CITYarts unites our future leaders  - children and youth under one flag, the Peace Flag. And what is more hopeful and symbolic than our mosaic Peace Wall in Jaffa, Israel, created by Jewish and Arab youth and their families? Ambassador Dan Gillerman and his wife, Janice, came to put their Piece for Peace on the wall, too.

In honor of Ramadan and Rosh Hashana, the work at the wall stopped and will resume at the beginning of October when more children and youth can come to place their quest for peace on the wall. One father who joined his son to work on the wall remarked, "How could I say no when he asked me to join him to work on the wall on my day off?" Our hope, as we begin the new school year, is that parents and grandparents will join the children  to give a hand in contributing to their future, help them take ownership of a better world, and unite and build bridges of cultural understanding. CITYarts is already engaging over 5,000 kids in more than 50 countries on 6 continents.

View our press links which include an interview on Galatz an article on Fortal Yafo.

We await your ideas, thoughts and support - please let us know how we can do things even better! We need you to get involved; please don't miss out on this opportunity to become an ACTIVE PART of the Change for Better. "If we can dream it, we can bring it about" - I truly believe it and live by it.

Here's how to get involved:

1. Come to the wall to lend a hand in the creative process (Kedem Street 163, Jaffa, the Arabic neighborhood right across from the Peres Peace Center)

2. Connect us with a school Middle School or High School who can participate

3. Come to the wall and photograph or film the project for CITYarts

4. Bring refreshments (water, cookies, etc.) to the volunteers.

5. Forward this email to all your friends and colleagues. Good news is hard to find - help spread this one!

6. We have a Publicity Wall at the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa. Please bring people there to see information about the progress of the project.

7. Funds are always welcome, too!

Have an easy Ramadan, Shama Tova, Peace Blessings, and a peaceful Labor Day weekend, 

Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive & Artistic Director, CITYarts, Inc.

Artists

Yoav Weiss

Salma Shehade

Sponsor

Anonymous Individual

Contributors

ARTA

Shell Lina Art

Together Publicity

Schools/ Participating Groups

Helicon - Society for the Advancement of Poetry in Israel

Jewish Youth in the Center of Leadership in The Heart of Yafo

The Youth Group of Shem Hagdolim neighborhood in collaboration with the Peres Center for Peace

The Democratic School under the leadership of Mary Copti

Hachashmonaim School - Jewish-Arab School

Orthodox Club Tsofim - Arab Christians

Terrasanta Middle/High School

Orthodox Club Tsofim - Christian Arabs

Weitsman Arab and Jewish School

The Terrasanta Elementary School

Educational Youth Leadership Project

Jewish Tsofim in Yafo

Youth Club for Advancement in Jaffa

The Farir School

Public School Lev Middle/High School

Muslim Tsofim

Partners

Peres Center for Peace

Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa

The Council for a Beautiful Israel

Hamishlama Leyafo

Banot Lemaan Hashalom

Vaad Mitham shem Hagdolim

Kedem
Board

Banot Lemaan Hashalom

Shoshi Almagor

Bela Almog

Ronit Amit

Dana Arazi-Margalit

Colette Avital

Aya Azrielant

Gali Cohen

Sima Ella

Ronit Federman

Ruth Federman

Tzameret Fuerst

Karen Gillerman-Harel

Nadia Hilo

Nadine Hollander

Nira Itzhaki

Sara Kremer

Liora Morgenstern

Nava Mussaffi

Dalyah Neeman

Tsipi Ronnen-Dovrat

Chana Rothschild

Ruthi Sella

Hava Topor

Miri Zichroni

Photographers

Rotem Rachel Chen       

Tamy Dahan      

Ira Shraberman

Avishai Gilad