Monday, January 31, 2011

Day 41: Inspire Your Heart With Art Day


Today is Inspire Your Heart With Art Day. On this day, you can give your heart a special treat. Inspire Your Heart With Art Day celebrates art and the effect it can have on your heart. Art is valued and appreciated for all sorts of reasons. Look at a piece of art and ask yourself: What is it telling me? How does it make me feel? What emotions is it evoking (if any) within me? A sense of love and romance is one of those feelings and emotions that a piece of artwork can awaken and inspire. Looking to create a little romance with that special someone? Try setting the mood, with an appropriate piece of art. While the title of this day suggests you inspire "your" heart, you may want to use today to inspire someone else's heart, to have romantic thoughts of you. You can create your very own work of art or go and visit art galleries and museums. People should take the time to search out art and make it a bigger part of their lives. Art is full of inspiration and can change our way of looking at the world. It has changed people’s hearts for centuries. Maybe looking at a masterpiece painting or a superb piece of sculpture will inspire you to be creative. We all have creative juices in us. Unfortunately, many of us stop being creative when we move from childhood to adulthood. Inspire Your Heart With Art Day may get your creative juices flowing again.

The International Child Art Foundation's mission is to integrate the arts with science, sport and technology for the development of children’s innate creativity and intrinsic empathy – preconditions for a more just, prosperous and nonviolent world.
They look at the
urgent problems afflicting local communities and the world today (global warming, grinding poverty, mushrooming violence) and see them as mere symptoms of something deeper and fundamental? Is it the prevailing system of thinking and feeling? They have a vision for The International Child Art Foundation, to create a world that nurtures children’s innate creativity, fosters their intrinsic empathy, and includes children’s voices in any deliberation on the future

The International Child Art Foundation's is the world’s largest and most prestigious creative education program modeled as “Olympics” of children’s creativity and imagination. They hold the world’s largest international children’s celebration, traditionally held on the National Mall in Washington DC every four years. They provide creative interventions for victims of natural disasters to aid psychological recovery from traumatic experiences. They provide an Innovative approach that reduces inter-generational transmission of trauma and hatred by providing children a new outlook and perspective on opportunities. They have published advertisement-free since 1998 to nurture children’s creativity, foster their empathy, and introduce the world to them through the arts. They provide a display of children’s thought-provoking artworks to inspire dialogue on a better future. They arrange children's panels and youth panels to introduce their voices to discussions on the future.
 
Donation: $5

To support The International Child Art Foundation, please visit: http://www.icaf.org/

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