CHALK4PEACE CHALKSTARS- Boulder Public Library, CO

The Boulder (CO) Public Library has been a great proponent of CHALK4PEACE, joining the global project in 2006 and organizing C4P events for many years. We commend the Library, for their courageous C4P projects-for instance, in 2010,  the theme "Banned Books" turned out to be a very artful endeavor, team effort, and fan favorite.

photos: Emily Ebba Reynolds

The Library's C4P projects, guided over the years by Donna Gartenmann and Carol Heepke, have brought together the community to invite everyone's expressions visions of peace and justice. Some of Boulder's CHALKSTARS...

Photo & cover photo: Benko Photographics

Photo: Diane Newlin-Rolio

The Library, in their encouragement of CHALK4PEACE, has provided the Boulder community with a venue to share artistic expression in a beautiful public space about subjects they care very deeply about. CHALK4PEACE. These photos tell the story.

Photos: Benko Photographics

Photo: Jerry Downs

Thank you again for all the support in Boulder for CHALK4PEACE. Thank you to Donna Gartennman, Carol Heepke, Mary Chen Fowler, Greg Ravenswood, Michael and Niko Wojzcuk, Ken Bernstein, Diane Newlin-Rolio, Les Crandell, the Daily Camera, Mothers Acting Up, Tim and Mary Benko, the Boulder Arts Commission, Loew-Cornell Co. (chalk) and the rest of you Boulderites dedicated to having the freedom to express your opinions about Peace. Bring it to a pavement near you once again! CHALK ON! What a wonderful world it could be. 

9/11/11, the 10th anniversary of 911... Remembering...

Photo: Carol Heepke

Our INDIEGOGO Campaign: Documentary Film-CHALK4PEACE: Drawing FergUSon Together

CHALK4PEACE Indiegogo Trailer:     https://vimeo.com/129699807

We're raising $90,000 to create the film documentary of the CHALK4PEACE Social Justice Summit and Community CHALK4PEACE Celebration in Ferguson, Missouri through our INDIEGOGO Crowdfunding Campaign. This historic peace summit will be held at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley Sept. 18-19. Please help us reach our goal to create the documentary, so we can share Ferguson's process of healing and reconciliation with the world. Please support our campaign however you can!

The Link: CHALK4PEACE: Drawing Ferguson Together- a film http://igg.me/at/chalk4peace

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CHALK4PEACE Photo Archives- A Decade of Artistic Peace

Please browse our CHALK4PEACE galleries from ten years and four continents. CHALK ON!

CHALK4PEACE Archives

photo: Jerry Downs

photo: S.J. Bleiweis

CHALK4PEACE-Open Alternative School 2015

The Open Alternative School of Santa Barbara, CA held its 2nd CHALK4PEACE on June 2, 2015. Alejandra Tashma organized the schoolwide event with the theme of "Save the Ocean Save the Planet"; and more than 160 CHALKSTARS shared their inspirational messages of hope, peace and concern for the environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 OAS practices a multi-grades creative team effort that utilizes the older students being mentors for the younger ones. Another school that practices this sort of C4P teamwork in S. California is the Gooden School of Sierra Madre.

OAS is joining CHALK4PEACE again this September as part of the International Day of Peace. We celebrate the Open Alternative School for their efforts to show the world what peace means to them!

SAVE THE NARWHALS!!!