“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now.”
Chinese Proverb
“Only Hearts” Art/Peace Project
Students, Teachers, and Parents, sharing in a Vision of Peace
Peace is loving with a reason • Peace is living with care • Peace is healing • Peace is surrounding us with an open heart and Peace ends the violence and wars in our society.—Nikky Welch / 1999
The “Only Hearts” Art/Peace Project, inspired by 3,500 Sarasota, FL students as a millennium peace project, offers a format through which students of all ages can share their ideas and action steps towards world peace, cross-cultural harmony, and conciliation.
The original project begins with the participants painting their vision of the world they want to create inside our heart template. On the back they are asked to write about how they will achieve their goal. A next step, using their talents in the arts, sciences or humanities, students are asked to score a presentation for their school and/or their community. http://onlyhearts.orgA new component: An art-assemblage project available in 21+ languages. Participants of all ages are asked to write one word in the center of their heart project download that represents what they want to manifest for the Well-Being of themselves, family, and community. This is a process that highlights the power of personal and collective visioning. http://Love-it.today
Conceived by artist/designer Dwij David Gittens, these are educational, empowering and insightful activities that are FREE to DOWNLOAD from the Internet for use in classrooms, after-school programs, and by cultural organizations. Successfully used around the world, the President of John F. Kennedy University in Buenos Aires, Argentina wrote “We consider that the Only Hearts Art/Peace Project is of great interest and social, cultural and academic relevance and recommend it to private and public organizations both national, provincial and municipal to do the same.”
The “Only Hearts” art/peace project has been used by thousands of participants around the world; linking with others who are weaving a global matrix of peace and conciliation. “Hearts Around the World” is our vision for an ongoing exhibit that reflects this intention.
Our quest as we launch this renewed “Only Hearts” Art/Peace Project website is to reconnect with a larger audience of young peacemakers and also to meet-up with the students from our seventeen-years-ago launch, discovering how their dreams of yesterday match with how they vision the world today . . . and what they are teaching their children about peace and conciliation.
Thank you for your support and sponsorship,
dwij – David Gittens
About dwij - David Gittens
Dwij - David Gittens is a Sarasota based artist/designer who has worked on projects in many cultures. His Only Hearts Art/Peace Project, a collaborative creation that articulates the insights and visions of 3,500 Sarasota students on the topic of world peace, cross cultural harmony, and conciliation, is used by educators, students and parents around the world. The project was begun as an inspirational grassroots undertaking in 1999 for the millennium.
The links to the, FREE TO DOWNLOAD, Only Hearts Art/Peace Projects are:
David's bio/accomplishments can be explored on:
For information contact David Gittens at: dwijveena@gmail.com
