REPOSTING ENCOURAGED
Every year in mid-September, the UN sponsors the International Day of Peace Vigil in NYC.
The organizer was very impressed by the World Peace Ribbon which was created by stitchers around the world in memory of 9/11, and has asked whether I know any other artistic types who have peace-themed artworks they would be willing to loan (or outright donate). One year, she had some life-sized soft sculpture angels, so don't think you're limited by size. She's also open to poetry or extremely short prose, which can be read aloud at the event or posted on the wall.
If you donate your objets d'art directly to the UN, they will be stashed in a vault and never seen again, so contact me for special instructions on how to get them to the organizer, personally, rather than to the UN as a whole. I have met her personally, and am assured that although she stores the World Peace Ribbon at her home, she does not consider it her private property, and when she retires from the UN, it will be passed down to the new coordinator.
I'm bringing this up now not because I want you to scurry around and throw something together in the next few days for the 2006 IDP Vigil, but because I want you to have the maximum time to think of something super-fantastic for next year's event.
Since it is officially Susana's to do with as she wishes, rather than property of the UN, she has taken the World Peace Ribbon all over the NYC area, to Red Cross events, and to 9/11 survivors support groups, and people are always touched that stitchers not even living in the NY area, would have done this in memory of strangers, the viewer's loved ones. You, too, can touch someone to the core.