100 Vietnamese Children's Art on War and Peace from the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City will be exhibited in Art Galleries of Kent State University and Case Western University, Ohio, U.S. from July 7th to November 2nd, 2010.
This is a project by Kent State University and Case Western University, Soldier's Heart - a not-for-profit program for healing veterans, civilians and countries from war - in collaboration with the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. It will first go to Kent State University in Ohio where students were shot protesting the war 40 years ago. Then it will go to other cities to be shown at universities and art galleries and museums. The organizers of this project are working on a national tour across the U.S, expecting the children’s art will be here for a year and many people will see it.
"In addition, we have interest from York Univesity in Englad, so the exhibit may be able to go to other countries too. We are getting very much interest and excitement and it looks like we could easily make a national tour here that can show the children's art all over the country and last for all of 2011." - says Doctor Tick, Director of Soldier's Heart.
This will be the third time Vietnamese Children's Arts on War and Peace from the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City has been exhibited ouside Vietnam, after in Sweden and Japan.
Kent State University Press is committed to publishing a beautiful catalogue of about 50 pages. It will include brief essays from Doctor Tick, David Hassler, director of Wick Poetry Center at Kent State , Shannon French, Director of Inamori Center on Ethics and Case, and from Viet Nam essays by Dr. Huu Ngoc, Museum Director Huynh Ngoc Van, and Song, who has beening helping in healing and reconciliation war between the two countries for years. It will also include poetry and short prose from Vietnamese and American students and veterans in response to the art and the themes of war and peace, and will be published enough to travel with the exhibit. The catalogues will be presented to the War Remants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, and to Hanoi next year on the city's 1,000th anniversary.
The organizers also hope to create pen pal exchanges so that Vietnamese and American veterans and students and children write to each other. "We have several schools, individuals, and veterans that want to be pen pals with Vietnamese schools," say Dortor Tick. This will support for understanding, healing, reconcilement and friendship between the U.S. and Vietnam.
Also, the organizers hope that as the show travels children and others who see it will do more writing about the art and about healing war and making peace between the two countries. When having enough poetry they hope to publish a full book collection of poetry bilingually. The colleting from both countries has been soon began and will be extend over the next year.
Anyone who wants to know more and sent your works to the exhibition (in Vietnamese, or Enlish or hay both languages) can contact to the emails:
Edward Tick: vietscroll@gmail.com
Trần Đình Song: songtran@hotmail.com
Supporters:
Phạm Út Quyên: phamutquyen@gmail.com
Nguyễn Khánh Ngọc: khanhngoc_k50_baochi_dhkhxhnv@yahoo.com
Vietnamese children's art on war and peace to be exhibited in America
The organizers of this project are working on a national tour across the U.S, expecting the children’s art will be here for a year and many people will see it.
Source: dtinews.vn
