ICAP artist Karine Plantadit was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best Featured Actress in a Musical category for her work in Come Fly Away. Her fellow nominees were Barbara Cook, Angela Lansbury, Lillias White and Katie Finneran, who ended up winning the award. While the other nominees had all appeared in speaking roles,…
The United Nations hosted an event that featured a lecture entitled “A Conductor Stands Up for Justice: How Toscanini Fought Hitler’s Persecution of the Jews” presented by the conductor, Cesare Civetta on April 28, 2015 at the United Nations Headquarters. Cristina Gallach, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information applauded Mr. Civetta’s talk and…
The website Nest HQ recently asked ICAP co-presidents Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter for their advice to younger artists in light of various prominent global challenges. The two responded with the following open letter: To the Next Generation of Artists We find ourselves in turbulent and unpredictable times. From the horror at the Bataclan, to the…
At the fourth Latte Peace Festival, International Committee of Artists for Peace representative Carol Clayton introduced the audience to ICAP, one of the sponsors of the Festival. ICAP’s mission is “To establish peace and develop peacemakers through the transformative power of art.” As part of this mission, ICAP created a 20-minute musical theater presentation for…
Back by popular demand, the 2016 Elementary School Art Poster Contest, “Friends for Peace,” organized by ICAP in conjunction with the 4th annual Latte Peace Festival. This vital yearly event is the brainchild of and is hosted by the Mayor’s office of Guam’s Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon municipality. Coinciding with the art contest, an exhibit titled “Victory Over…
Promoting the “spirit of Aloha” and “cultural diversity for the creation of a peaceful world,” the citizens of the Big Island of Hawaii came together for the 6th Annual Hilo World Peace Festival on October 3. The grand event—Destination Hilo and the Hawaii Youth Exchange—was held at Moku Ola (Coconut Island), a small body of…
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…
“Artists as Peacemakers” — ICAP’s exhibition that highlights its core value, establishing a peaceful world through the power of the arts — https://icapeace.org/icap/exhibits/ArtistsAsPeacemakers-Web-Dec07.pdf was hosted on the campus of Point Park University in Downtown Pittsburgh, April 6–10. The following article from the The Globe, the university’s independent student newspaper, details the exhibition’s run at the…
“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…