MasterPeace CalArts is a Club providing a space where CalArts students meet to participate in projects using Art as a tool to build Peace. For more information about getting involved please email [email protected]
Our Mission is Creating Peace Together
About MasterPeace
MasterPeace is a global grassroots movement that inspires everyone to use their talent and energy for peace bui
lding and togetherness. Through music, sports, arts and dialogue, MasterPeace will help lead the way to a more sustainable world with less armed conflict. MasterPeace focuses on mobilizing talents for peace-building. The world has seven billion inhabitants. We view them as seven billion sources of talent and energy. With global and local events, innovative campaigning, the International Day of Peace, our 2.0 platform, social media, local MasterPeace clubs and especially art, sports and music, we invite men and women from all continents and all cultural backgrounds to show leadership and use their talent and energy for building peace. MasterPeace offers a platform for a large community of social entrepreneurs, volunteers, bloggers, musicians, businesses and active citizens to connect together and support with actions, as we believe “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open.” Millions are already involved in co-creating the movement throughout the world. This makes it one of the fastest growing peace movements ever. Our vision, mission and guidelines for all our activities are reflected in what we call our Passion Statement: “We are dedicated to put Music above fighting Dialogue above judgment Bread above bombs Creation above destruction. That’s MasterPeace.”
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‘Creating peace. Together.’
This is our objective. The campaign was officially launched in Cairo Egypt as well as Utrecht, Netherlands, the city of the " Utrecht Peace Treaty" under the motto ‘Creating Peace. Together’ on the International Day of Peace (21 September) in 2011. From that moment on, three years of positive actions, web activities, community initiatives, art projects in conflict areas, and beyond have been developed! All these activities happening globally will evolve towards a very special apotheosis 'MasterPeace in Concert' MiC, which will occur on the International Day of Peace in 2014. In this event, most important artists of the countries and regions currently in conflict with each other - the 'Bonos of conflict areas' - are to perform there together. To open up fists and hearts. To celebrate unity and international cooperation. And to give peace workers new courage, whether they are on site or via the live broadcast. You cannot buy a ticket to be there. You can earn a ticket by working concretely towards peace in the period up to 2014. In that year, 20.14, we will have mobilised 20 million people worldwide to 'embrace’ the 14 main conflicts. And that mobilisation and commitment starts NOW. General Information
The number of wars and tensions between ‘east’ and ‘west’ are rising, just like the expenditures on weaponry, and yet there is not yet a one positive, attractive and grass-roots movement for peace. Both Ilco van der Linde (Netherlands) and Mohamed Helmy (Egypt) founders of MasterPeace worked together successfully in a global HIV/AIDS education project, in which Ilco was the International CEO and Mohamed the director for Egypt. With years of extensive expertise in mobilizing millions around the world in social change projects (including the largest thematic youth project of Europe involving 1 million visitors: The Liberation Festivals in Holland), both MasterPeace founders had envisioned an east-west grassroots movement whereby millions of people would be inspired to take actions for peace-building.
2009. This ambitious couple had the dream of creating a global movement of peace-builders. Within ten years they aim to inspire millions of people using their talent and energy to fuel ‘3D’: Dialogue, Development, Disarmament. They called their journey MasterPeace. Day by day artists, social entrepreneurs and companies jumped on board and the dream became reality in over 30 countries with grassroots initiatives run by thousands of volunteers. Within 3 years we have reached our current status with a Central Office in Cairo (Egypt), European office in Utrecht (Netherlands), MasterPeace Clubs in over 40 countries, 300,000 fans on Facebook, a board with experts from 4 continents, a campaigning team (containing global top marketers), 5 Founding Partners (Corio, vfonds, PAX, Triodos Foundation, Cordaid), a structural donor (Dutch National Postcode Lottery), 37 Collaborative Partners (including the UNAOC, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations), 16 media partners (including the UNDPI, UN Department of Information and Tribe of Noise with 22,000 artists) and some first business partners (incl. KPMG for the auditing). About CalArts
Ranked as America’s top college for students in the arts by Newsweek/The Daily Beast, California Institute of the Arts has set the pace for educating professional artists since 1970. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions. As successive generations of faculty and alumni have helped shape the landscape of contemporary arts, the Institute first envisioned by Walt Disney encompasses a vibrant, eclectic community with global reach, inviting experimentation, independent inquiry, and active collaboration and exchange among artists, artistic disciplines and cultural traditions. Admission to CalArts is competitive and considered mainly on the basis of demonstrated artistic merit, as assessed by the faculty of the individual programs. Other important considerations include educational records, recommendations, and artist’s statements by applicants. Based in Valencia, north of Los Angeles, CalArts further extends its commitment to the arts through the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown L.A. and the nationally emulated Community Arts Partnership (CAP) youth arts program. http://calarts.edu
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California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355-2340
