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Spirit of Aloha and Cultural Diversity on Full Display at 9th Hilo World Peace Festival
The 9th annual Hilo World Peace Festival was held on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium. More than 1,000 citizens and visitors attended the Festival in the largest…
‘Victory Over Victimhood’ at St. Bernard High School marks the debut of iChoose 2.0
What if, instead of coming at us from our circumstances or from how others are behaving toward us, stress and anxiety are actually created from within, 100 percent of the…
Saint Petersburg hosts 7th annual International Jazz Day
The legendary Mariinsky Theatre, home of the Kirov Ballet, and the site where Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other towering figures in the history of music premiered their masterworks on stage, played…
Guam Elementary Schools host Peace Project Presentation & Peace Symposium
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Elementary School & Tamuning Elementary School students in Guam, teachers and staff welcomed ICAP representatives once again to celebrate their 2nd year of having a Peace…
Guam Hosts Sixth Annual Latte Peace Festival
Amid global political tensions that include the island of Guam’s identification as a target of a missile strike by a foreign state, the Guam Municipality of Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon (“Ta-Tu-Ha”) courageously continued…
“The Healing Power of Jazz”
The jazz drummer Phil Young turned seventy last year. He still plays every Thursday, at the Lenox Saphire, in Harlem, from seven until eleven, at an event he calls “The…
Cultural Diversity and Spirit of Aloha on Full Display at 8th Annual Hilo World Peace Festival
In the Hawai’ian spirit of ‘Aloha’, a sunny day warmly embraced more than 1000 citizens and visitors attending the Eighth Annual Hilo World Peace Festival held on Saturday, October 21,…
“Floating Cloud” will be a landmark of world peace in Copenhagen
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Reunited: A Short Film about Music and the Human Spirit
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Kobe Bryant “Dear Basketball” with John Williams at Hollywood Bowl
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Rome’s Terme di Caracalla (Baths of Caracalla) — a World Heritage Site where operas, ballets and concerts promote peace through the power of art.
Rome—This great Italian city’s second-largest Roman public baths originated in the year 216. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980, the site of these public baths (called thermae, in…
iChoose debuts in Chicago’s Mariano Azuela School
iChoose, ICAP’s innovative youth empowerment program that combines a mini-musical drama with small-group discussions to provide a vital anti-violence message to high school and middle school students debuted at Mariano…
Wayne Shorter receives the 2017 Polar Music Prize
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Musically vibrant Havana hosts 6th International Jazz Day flagship concert
The worldwide celebration of International Jazz Day 2017 culminated in an all-star global concert, hosted by actor Will Smith, in Havana’s historic Gran Teatro de La Havana Alicia Alonso, Cuba…
Miho Pine Grove—lovely component of UNESCO’s Mount Fuji World Heritage site—artistically inspires visitors across the centuries
At one entrance to the Miho Pine Grove—which, in 2013, made it onto the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of Japan’s Fujisan (Mount Fuji) Cultural Site—there stands a statue…
Guam schoolchildren conduct their own ‘TED Talks’ of peace
Inspired by ICAP’s mission to build a culture of peace as well as develop future peacemakers through the arts, students at Guam’s LBJ Elementary School and Tamuning Elementary School displayed…
Guam Hosts Fifth Latte Peace Festival
The year 2017 marks the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War II, during which the Chamorro people suffered from unspeakable atrocities committed on the beautiful island of Guam…
Drawing to Music
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Shuri Castle, a World Heritage Site on Okinawa, transports visitors back to the Ryukyu Kingdom era.
When Shuri Castle—a historical Ryukyu Kingdom jewel believed to have been constructed in the late 14th century—was destroyed during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, islanders could hardly have envisioned its…
Despite a bus crushing her leg and 18 subsequent surgeries, Amy Jordan and her Victory Dance Project are ‘Making the Impossible Possible with the Power of Movement.’
Amy Jordan started ballet class at age 5. A very athletic child, she loved performing and, influenced by Baryshnikov, she underwent classical training. Amy also loved musical theater to the…
‘Love isn’t love unless you give it away. Aloha is not Aloha until you give it away, and peace is never peace unless you share it.’
“Love isn’t love unless you give it away. Aloha is not Aloha until you give it away, and peace is never peace unless you share it.” With this powerful statement…
Karine Plantadit, Tony-nominated dancer, takes time to encourage students.
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…
Carlos Santana’s Mega Nova marks a great new era in ICAP’s mission — the collaboration between peace and the arts
Los Angeles — The jazz rhythms of Mega Nova stampeded out from the Hollywood Bowl band shell on the pleasantly cool evening of Wednesday, Aug. 24. Carlos Santana’s latest project…
Rock art of Alta in Northern Norway, a World Heritage Site, inspires visitors even thousands years later
Alta, Norway — Although modes of communication have changed considerably over the millennia, the use of simple illustration continues in pretty much the same form it has since around the…