War veteran creates peace in Cairo BY LOUISE BULL NYVANG On World Peace Day organizes Aarhus Martin Nore an art festival in the Egyptian capital, which is currently characterized by bloody riots. Amid the troubled Cairo will ex-soldier Martin Nore on 21 September assemble Danish and Arab artists and run a festival with art exhibitions, films and concerts. Behind him, Martin Nore also a board including counts more influential Arabs, a Danish war researcher and the Danish artist Simone Aaberg Kærn. "I believe that by making art together can solve many more problems than if you throw bombs at each other," says Martin Nore that by painting has found a way to live with post-traumatic stress disorder, which he was diagnosed after having been issued a total of eight times. A good idea, according to the Center for Culture and Development (DCCD), who have chosen to support the project with 300,000 At DCCD are you excited about the new initiative. "The festival fits well into our strategy of using culture as a tool for peace and reconciliation. Martin Nore shows that there is a different path than the violent. He shows that you can have feelings and thoughts with creative resources, "says Morten Gøbel Poulsen, program manager for the Middle East by DCCD. It supports only the festival, if the situation in the country improves. "We very much hope it can be done as early as 21 September, and it will send a strong signal to send on the very day that is World Peace Day. But if the situation down there is still too uncertain, so we expose it. We take a final position on the first September, "says Morten Gøbel Poulsen. With the board of the festival is Gorm Harste, associate professor at Aarhus University and researcher at war philosophy. "It may be a drop in the ocean - or in the desert - but hopefully it will also mean more for some people and may trigger further similar initiatives," says Gorm Harste. Besides Cairo, the Egyptian city of Fayoum also have a visit from one-day festival, which include shows Danish-Kuwaiti art, get an "Open wall", where anyone can write a message, and then Martin Nore dismantle its specialty: explosion paintings NEW ORGANIZATION Afpaf - Artists for Peace and Freedom Board of Directors: Martin Nore (initiator), Gorm Harste (Chairman), Mariam al-Fahim (Abu Dhabi), Amro Adel (Cairo), Brother Skardhamar (Copenhagen), Ilham Kounda (Morocco), Elizabeth Porsing (Copenhagen) and Simone Aaberg Kærn (Copenhagen ). Arranges Festival Arts for Peace and Freedom in collaboration with Darb1718 in the Middle East. Pilot in Cairo on 21 September and in Fayoum, also in Egypt, in October. Then the plan is to continue, provided that the money is available.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:55:04 +0000
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