Pieces for Peace at the United Nations

Last Week to View Pieces for Peace
at the United Nations! - ends Feb. 11, 2010
We will be at the American Toy Fair next

Vol. XX, Issue: 03

Dear Friends,

CITYarts' Pieces for Peace with Youth from Around the World Traveling Exhibition will be on display for one more week only, through February 10, at the UN Visitors' Lobby. We are also happy to announce that CITYarts' Pieces for Peace will be welcoming kids and families at the American International Toy Fair at the Javits Center, from Feb. 14-17.

We would like to thank our wonderful partners, the UN Office for Partnerships, especially Executive Director Amir Dossal and Chief of Office Lucie Hrbkova; the UN Department of Public Information; Jan Arnesen and Liza Wichmann of the UN Exhibitions office; and of course for making it all possible, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum of Dubai. We had a great celebration with a media event organized especially for members of the Foreign Press Association, as you can see in these pictures. Some schools paid us a surprise visit and created their own Pieces for Peace right there in the exhibition space!

This has been a very meaningful two months at the UN. Participants from 8 more countries joined our project. Now we can happily say that CITYarts' Pieces for Peace is in 48 countries. We are hoping to soon have more countries join. Please help us spread the word.

Thank you,

Tsipi Ben-Haim

Executive & Artistic Director, CITYarts

Framed Prints $100

Collect your favorite images of Peace.

Available artworks are from Uganda, Fiji, Italy, United States, Chile, Israel, Namibia, and The Netherlands.

Purchase Here

Peter Sis
New York, 2005
Lithograph ed. x/150
16" x 16"
Retail Prices: $1,200
Minimum Donation: $500

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Daniel Libeskind
Freedom Tower, 2004
Print: Special Ed. for CITYarts x/150
24" x 18"
Retail Price: $2000
Minimum Donation: $500

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CITYarts Pieces for Peace will be on exhibit at the American International Toy Fair at the Jacob Javits Center, Feb. 14 - 17

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Celebrating with some members of the Foreign Press Association

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Students from a school in Long Island view artworks

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Gustavo Stecher

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Members of the Foreign Press Association

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Alan Capper, President of the Foreign Press Association

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Amir Dossal, Executive Director of the UN Office for Partnerships, Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive and Artistic Director, CITYarts, and Dorothy Harman, Chairperson of the Jerusalem international YMCA.

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A video about the exhibition will soon be available on the Foreign Press Association website here.

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