Six years ago Archbishop Desmond Tutu backed ARROW’s (Art: a Resource for Reconciliation Over the World) ambition to develop and promote the creative arts, as a vital global resource for peace and relationship building, across boundaries and barriers.
Since then we have worked with an emerging and dedicated global network of young people in the UK, Balkans, Africa, India, Palestine, North and South America, in some of the poorest and most conflict ravaged societies in the world.
In Plymouth this summer, ARROW is hosting a Global Congress to enable these young people to share their creative practice, ideas and aspirations. They are all dedicated to challenging prejudice and injustice in their own communities and in creating a global momentum for change.
Our biggest challenge is getting all of these remarkable young people here to Plymouth; and for this we need help.
We are therefore planning to hold a giant, cross city auction at the end of February.
We need your help to get items for the auction, which will be conducted online and supported by the Plymouth Herald.
If you have access to anybody who can get tickets for football, rugby matches, hotel vouchers, signed items, products from shops, services that people can offer as auction items, anything from the simple and basic to the outrageous, maybe even those lovely Xmas presents that you already had, please go for it and get in touch here.
Join the growing ARROW community through our Facebook site (www.facebook.com/
arrow.programme).
The site aims to provide a platform for conversation, friendships and the sharing of images and video. You can read some of the comments from our new friends here
To ensure we keep up, and in, with our young ARROW groups we have also moved into Myspace. The page is in its infancy but is making new friends and contacts every week.
If you would like to check it out and leave a message or become a friend of ARROW in MySpace you can find us here
News in brief
- The use of the arts and artistic processes in approaching conflict is a pioneering development in the field and at Masters Level. The MA in Creative Conflict Transformation Through the Arts gives students the opportunity to be at the cutting edge of this innovative development. Check out the MA 2010 prospectus here or read more about the programme here.
- There are many other ways, you, your school, your company can get involved. Click here for more info.
- Following on from the success of the recent congress, two reports have been prepared and are available to read here: ARROW Symposium report and the ARROW Congress Young People's Activity report.
Arrow newsletters
You can read the latest ARROW newsletter here . You can also read some of the previous newsletters here
ARROW's aim is to develop a global network of artists, educators, young people, organisations and institutions with a commitment to building bridges across perceived boundaries and barriers, by sharing our stories, challenging prejudice and stereotypes and developing the arts as a resource for reconciliation and the creative transformation of conflict.
We were inspired by the work of Desmond Tutu, especially with his Chairing of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, so we wrote to him asking for his support and blessing.
He replied, describing ARROW as ‘exciting, especially as it is so apt for our time.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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