iChoose, ICAP’s innovative youth-empowerment mini-musical made an encore appearance via video, with showings at Prosser Career Academy. Prosser, located on Chicago’s west side, presented the two iChoose showings during school’s “Peace and Unity Week.” The annual event has become a start-of-the-school-year tradition established by students and faculty in order to set the tone for and…
“In essence, jazz is a music of peace, and this has never been so important, to fight against new forms of hatred, racism and discrimination and to strengthen humanity as a single community, sharing a past and a destiny,” said Irina Bokova, in her message for this year’s International Jazz Day — April 30. The…
Jennifer Scott, Human Relations Specialist from the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations was recently instrumental in introducing ICAP’s iChoose program to the Chicago Military Academy. The Commission is the Civil Rights arm of Chicago. They enforce fair-housing and human-rights ordinances for the city. Ms. Scott represents the city’s Southside for the Intergroup Relations…
The masterpieces of elementary school students provided one of the major highlights as Guam welcomed ICAP’s “Artists as Peacemakers” exhibition, January 15–18. The office of Louise Rivera — mayor of Guam’s Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon municpality — and the local ICAP organization organized a “My Dream of Peace Is . . .” art contest for the ambitious young artists in…
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson long ago named them “America’s Band,” and, providing service through music, the Navy Band Great Lakes performs more than 500 times each year throughout a nine-state area of the United States. The band — formed more than 100 years ago (1911) and once led by Bandmaster and Lt. Commander John Philip…
This year’s Latte Peace Festival—the third annual event—opened at Guam’s Tamuning Park on Jan. 17 with a celebration promoting cultural exchange with neighboring islands. This poignant gesture is an expression to the world that the citizens of Guam, which is situated in the western Pacific and has withstood the horrors of war, possess a powerful…
The latest variation on Herbie Hancock’s fertile theme—“Possibilities”—has appeared in the form of his new memoir published by Viking Books. Aptly titled Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (and co-written with Lisa Dickey) it covers the major dramatic and musical shifts in his life, from his childhood debut as a piano soloist with the Chicago Symphony, through his…
The County of Hawaii mayor’s office, led by Mayor Billy Kenoi, has been exerting all-out efforts to insure that all citizens who reside in the path of the continually erupting Kilauea volcano remain safe. That same reverence for the sanctity of life was on display today, in an uplifting format, as the County of Hawaii…
[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”xZRZSzZ2dWM” width=”640″ height=”480″ auto_thumb=”1″] Born in Taiwan, raised in South Africa, and now making her U.S. home in Boston, Eriel Huang has already known many worlds. But today, she seems most at home in the worlds of music and of service. Winner of a South African Music Award, or SAMA (the South African equivalent…
This splendid Swiss city on the northeastern shore of scenic Lake Geneva welcomes the world each July as Europe’s unofficial capital of jazz. The iconic Montreux Jazz Festival, with its broad appeal to musicians and aficionados from all corners of the globe, seems precisely the place to unveil “MUSIC – The Universal Language,” an exhibition…