News from the Sidewalk

CHALK4PEACE is the global chalk art project about peace. We celebrate our eleventh year as a worldwide event encouraging peace. CHALK4PEACE, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization.

We've had more than 1000 events in 50 countries and have covered more than 12 miles of pavement with messages and visions of peace in sidewalk chalk...

We believe in "Drawing the World Together..."

CHALK4PEACE participated in the Peace Day Student Observance at the United Nations in New York City in 2016 to honor the International Day of Peace. Hundreds of thousands of young artists of all ages have joined us since 2005.

Our goal: ONE MILLION artists Chalking 4 Peace at the same time...

Because we need Peace...Now more than ever...

CHALK4PEACE CHALKSTARS: St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, S.A.

The Community Arts Therapy Programme, CATh, founded by Angela Rackstraw, was one of the first organizations to step forward to join CHALK4PEACE when it painted the steps of St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa in 2006. Archbishop Emeritas Desmond Tutu told Angela about CHALK4PEACE; and the Cathedral offered its space to CATh to spread their messages and visions of love and peace. The steps in these photos are the steps where Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu stood when they first publicly denounced Apartheid. From the early years.... thanks to Angela Rackstraw and Gabbie van Heerden

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CATh's St. George 2007 CHALK4PEACE photos: http://modernarf.smugmug.com/Art/CHALK4PEACE-2007/Community-ARTS-Therapy/3557157_N7tHmR#!i=203231612&k=TbnvSMs

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CHALK4PEACE CHALKSTARS: The Groveton Tigers

The Groveton Elementary School, in Alexandria, VA is excited about its eighth CHALK4PEACE event this coming fall. Marielle Mariano, Markeen Sutter & other Peacebuilding educators have encouraged the student body to learn all about Peace: its history, its leaders, how to deal with conflict resolution, how to visualize and write about peace and share their hopes and dreams of a better, more peaceful world. CHALK4PEACE is honored to have such CHALKSTARS dedicated to TEACHING PEACE. Tigers, you are mighty! For more of their photos see:

C4P photo gallery of Groveton E.S., 2014: http://tinyurl.com/ngea447

C4P CHALKSTARS: Festival Clown e Clown

More than 1500 artists joined in to Gesitto por Pace at the Piazza Aldo Moro during the Clown and Clown Festival in the City of Smiles, Monte San Giusto, Italy, 2010. photo: Luciano Brandimarti. As full of magic as it gets...

CHALK4PEACE Photo gallery: http://tinyurl.com/oldx3op

C4P CHALKSTAR Gallery: Waples Mill E.S., Oakton, VA

Waples Mill E.S. of Oakton, VA has been a part of CHALK4PEACE since 2007. The Fairfax County Public School District is the most active educational supporter of CHALK4PEACE in the US. Photos by Marilyn Miyamoto and Sara Holtz

The following is the link to Waple Mills' most recent gallery of art for CHALK4PEACE...

http://tinyurl.com/pnpw3nb