The #ArtsDialogue team are delighted to welcome BuildaBridge International to the organisational representation of the collective.
BuildaBridge International based in Philadelphia join the innovative creative peacebuilding team represented by the organisations The Music Project (Sri Lanka), Escuelas de Paz (Colombia), Heartbeat (Israel/Palestine), Brehon Advisory, Afghanistan National Institute of Music, Beyond Skin & United Network of Young Peacebuilders (Netherlands).
#ArtsDialogue formed in March 2017 at a Youth Summit in Northern Ireland. Musician & Peace Activist Ami Yares the director of BuildaBridge was part of the facilitation team with his colleagues from Heartbeat, an organisation uniting Israeli & Palestinian youth through music. In December 2017 Ami Yares took on the role as director of BuildaBridge.
We are incredibly grateful here at BuildaBridge International to partner with Beyond Skin and #ArtsDialogue. For almost twenty years, BuildaBridge has been using the transformative power of the arts to provide hope and healing for vulnerable populations around the world. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, BuildaBridge International has led programming and training in Haiti, Colombia, the Middle East, the United States and more. BuildaBridge International’s teaching artists facilitate powerful artmaking spaces with a trauma-informed model that provides a safe and nurturing space to strengthen self-efficacy and resilience. Joining #ArtsDialogue brings BuildaBridge International into a collaborative and supportive network of organizations and people focused on peacebuilding. WE HAVE MUCH WORK TO DO! I hope soon we can welcome #ArtsDialogue on American soil and help fuel the fires of social change and justice. These are exciting and meaningful times. Thank You. - Ami Yares. www.buildabridge.org
#ArtsDialogue collective are an international intergenerational team of musicians, artists, producers, writers & peace activists.
