Exhibition at the Peace Prize Grand Hotel, Oslo

The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 was awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Peacepainting had an exhibition at the Peace Prize Hotel Grand in Oslo.

Exhibition in Scandic Hotel Syv Søstre

Utstilling ved Scandic Hotel Syv søstre i Sandnessjøen. På Scandic hotell i Sandnessjøen kan man se maleri fra Peacepainting-arbeidet.Maleriene er laget på våre verksteder rundt omkring i verden. I denne utstillingen har barn og unge fra Syria, Storbritannia, Polen og Afghanistan malt og laget tekster til, i en kontekst av likeverd og fred.

Workshop in Lebanon

Andøyposten skriver 11. april om Peacepaintings første reise til Libanon. Med hjelp fra stiftelsen "Right to play" har Catrine Gangstø og Grethe Stave nylig besøkt en leir for syriske flyktninger. Noen av bildene er med tilbake til Norge, og vil bli stilt ut på Grand Hotel i Oslo.

Painting from Peacepainting Poland for the Minister of Defense Søreide

Under minnemarkeringen av 75 år siden 2. verdenskrig i Narvik i mai 2015, fikk forsvarsminister Ine Eriksen Søreide overrakt et maleri av to polske ungdommer. Den polske presidenten var også til stede. De to ungdommene var sammen med ordføreren i Proszowice invitert til Narvik. Ungdommene var med på et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom norske og polske ungdommer fra Bindal og Proszowice. Under besøket i Norge hadde de polske ungdommene tema:" Munchs scream-my scream”. De besøkte Munch-museet i Oslo, og bildet ble malt på Bindalseidet på et maleverksted i 2014.

Forsvarsminister Søreide med maleri fra Peacepainting

Workshop at Olavsfestdagene with Artist Håkon Bleken

Peacepainting deltok to år (i 2009 og 2010) på Olavsfestdagene i Trondheim med maleverksted for barn og unge fra ulike trossamfunn, og utstilling på Trondheim kunstmuseum. I 2009 kom NRK Midtnytt på besøk og intervjuet Håkon Bleken om prosjektet. Her kan du se nyhetsinnslaget fra tv. Her er et amatøropptak fra samme hendelse.

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Exhibition at Tromsø Airport

Daglig leder Catrine Gangstø var i juni i Bodø, hvor utstillingen på Bodø lufthavn ble fornyet. Hun reiste videre til Tromsø, der hun etter avtale med Avinor monterte ny utstilling. Nå er vi på 9 lufthavner i Norge. I Tromsø møtte hun også representanter for Senter for fredsstudier ved Universitetet, førstekonsulent Tommy Sørensen, kontorsjef Elisabeth Sandersen ogsenterleder Christine Smith-Simonsen.

Video of Exhibition in the Cathedral in Rouen, France

Randi Størseth has made this film from the exhibition that Peacepainting had in the cathedral in Rouen, at the same time as the celebration that it was a thousand years since Olav the Holy was baptized. https://vimeo.com/119381214

Meeting with Namdalshagen AS

This winter, our general manager Catrine Gangstø has participated in courses for founders, and will receive guidance from Lars Petter Langås at Namdalshagen (Næringshagen, Namsos). Peacepainting is further developing its platform and method. The board updates the business plan that will form the basis for an application for support from Bindal Utvikling AS. Before Christmas, the foundation received new support from Nordland County Municipality, and now hopes that it will be possible to bring the work into a new phase, with permanent operations. The goal to be able to finance more permanent positions. Gangstø also gave a lunch lecture in Namdalshagen in February. On the same day, paintings were also exhibited at Namsos Airport, which is now the eighth airport in Norway with paintings from Peacepainting.

Peacepainting Exhibition at Bodø Airport

Avinor wrote the following in a press release in July 2013:

On Wednesday 17 July Bodø airport’s Peacepainting exhibition begins. The exhibition consists of 6 pictures from different nations and is found by Narvesen in the departure hall. The pictures can be seen by children and adults until next summer.

Peacepainting is an independent organisation with its origins in Bindal. The organisation arranges painting workshops for children and youth – such that they can express their thoughts about peace and friendship through a language without speech.

The painting workshops are held both nationally and internationally. Each participant comes forward with their own title and possibly some text about the picture. The message is imparted using a text sign which follows the picture at exhibitions. The most important thing is what the child wishes to impart and the aim is that children’s feelings shall be taken seriously.

- “When we concentrate on listening to and seeing what the children impart, it is certainly easier to remember how it is to be little. It is also easier to make decisions that promote life and variety – both when it applies to near and far relations,” says Catrine Gangstø in Peacepainting.

The pictures are exhibited both nationally and internationally. Today you can see Peacepainting exhibitions in the following Avinor airports:

· Kirkenes airport, Høybuktmoen · Brønnøysund airport, Brønnøy · Bodø airport.

After this, exhibitions have also arrived at these locations: Mosjøen, Namsos, Rørvik, Mo i Rana, Sandnessjøen and at the helicopter terminal in Brønnøysund.

Peacepainting Exhibition in Rouen Cathedral, France

The leadership in the cathedral in Rouen wished for a Peacepainting exhibition in connection with the celebration of Olaf’s baptism in 1014. Olaf the Holy was indeed baptised here 1000 years ago. The event and the training he received in France now strongly influence Norway. In the middle of October there were church services, concerts, talks and other markings of the anniversary in Rouen, with many Norwegian participants. Catrine Gangstø and Randi Størseth were there to arrange the exhibition and document the associated work.

At this marking, with this exhibition Peacepainting participates in promoting the idea of peace, and it focuses at the same time on the wish for peaceful coexistence across cultures in today’s picture of the world.

The exhibition shall hang in the cathedral the rest of the year and will create activities around the theme. Photographer Randi Størseth from Trondheim is making a presentation film.

Workshops and exhibition in Dønna

A project in cooperation with Dønna Culture School, Dønna volunteer bureau and Helgeland Museum. Pictures from the project are exhibited in the locality and other places in the county.

Exhibition at Helgeland Museum, Bindal

News report from Ytringen Avis Tuesday 30 July. “Peacekeeping with brushes and colours”.

Exhibition in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Department for the United Nations, Peace and Humanitarian Affairs.

Pictures painted by children in Tunisia and Norway were changed out with pictures painted by children from the Skolt Sami project carried out in Norway – Finland – Russia and a picture from the project in North Korea.

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Exhibitions at airports

The exhibitions are in cooperation with Avinor:

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Geir O. Pedersen, section leader at the Department for the United Nations, Peace and Humanitarian Affairs, receives a painting painted in Tunisia.

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Exhibition at Berg School, Norway

40 paintings decorate the walls. Some are from other countries such as Tunisia, Sri Lanka and Russia.

The rest have they made themselves at workshops through the organisation B.A.R.N.

The project is in cooperation with Sømna Culture School.

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June 2012 - Baaskifestivalen, Nordreisa, Norway

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We carried out workshops after invitation from ihana which aims to impart and promote Kvensk culture and the “tre stammers møte”. Ihana is Kvensk and means “fantastic”, “brilliant”! About 90 children participated.