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Bedankt aan iedereen die meedeed in 2007 en 2008!
Het onderstaande is in het Engels, maar binnenkort komen er ook Nederlandse participanten bij.
 Special thanks to FTD Floral, De Nederlandse anjertelers and Moois (ilovemoois.nl)
Thanks to new schools, volunteer participants and programs that participated this year.
TVPP is a Project of EpicArts (Epicarts.org)
USA
NY Coordinator - Katie Rosenthal
LA Coordinator - Raha Tabankia
New in Los Angeles -
Paul Revere Middle School
McKinley Elementary School (Santa Monica)
Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic
Tree of Life Center and Western Justice Center (Pasadena)
New in New York -
Building With Books (Bronx)
Berkeley Carroll School
Bikram Yoga
The Tea Lounge
Chicago -
Nancy Andria and the Chicago Park District
Idaho -
Idaho Student Peace Alliance
The Netherlands
Amsterdam -
Nova College Esprit
AOC Oost Almelo
Dorus Rijkerschool
De Buurtcentrums in de Pijp
Wales -
Peace Mala
Returning Participants -
Mosaic the City - BC, Canada
In Los Angeles
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy
The Hollywood Schoolhouse
Markham Middle School
Vine Elementary
Marlborough High School
Pilgrim School
Heart of Los Angeles
Brentwood School
My Friends Place
Thousands of carnations, tulips and other flowers were distributed with poetry in Amsterdam. Thousands of carnations were distributed with poetry in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Thousands of carnations were distributed in the varied communities of Los Angeles. Poems were shared also in Chicago, Victoria B.C. Canada and in Idaho by the Idaho Student Peace Alliance as well as in varied communities throughout the world that discovered this Project! Workshops were held thanks to community organizers. Also thanks to the many participants in different parts of the Netherlands as well as the US - in rural communities who contacted us that made their own flowers to share or passed out favorite poems and held workshops around themes of peace - a Valentine's season to remember.
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2007
Thanks to Izzy's class in Australia!
Thank you to Kelly Paper in California, filmaker Jeff Freeman,
Pilgrim School and Unknown Theater in Los Angeles.
We are also very grateful to Community Partners
for their guidance, encouragement and support.
Special thanks to poetry submissions from David
Whyte, Mary Jane Sullivan, Charles P. Ries, Marshall
Rosenberg, Stephen Mead, Mary Kennedy Eastham,
Marcielle Brandler, Giovanna Imbesi, Julie
Christensen, Allison Crowe and Yoko Ono.
About one thousand five hundred carnations were
given for distribution to the above participating
programs as well as volunteers who went to varied
locations throughout Southern California: St. John's Hospital,
Pomona, Santa Monica, Venice, West Hollywood and
downtown Los Angeles.
Thanks also (not mentioned above) to The HeArt Project and A Window between Worlds in Southern California.
More than one thousand carnations were distributed
on the subways and streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Many hearts were touched at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica,
among the businesses of downtown LA; shoppers at the Third
St. Promenade and beachgoers on the Venice Beach
boardwalk. Some individuals read their poems aloud,
shared them with their children, and took them home
to friends and family.
People shared their poems with the train conductor and each
other on the F train in Brooklyn and the stations and trains
in downtown Manhattan.
A Canadian group visited their local Emergency Room.
An Australian girls school visited their surrounding neighborhood.
Workshops on the building blocks for lasting peace were held in
community centers.
Participants everywhere are creating a Valentine's day memorable and
meaningful each year.
Please contact us to be involved as a participant or volunteer!
Peacebuilding reminds us of the true power of love - as one
Marlborough High School student stated in her poem submission:
Love.
What a charged word.
What a personal word.
What other word could evoke such strong feelings
and memories than love?
I have felt pain, sadness, joy, tears, laughter,
It has meant many things to me.
And as I look around, I see there is something
special about it.
About love.
Because whenever I have tried,
I have always been able to find it.
In Myself.
In a Book that inspires me.
In Family.
In my Dad's cooking.
In Friends.
In the eyes of a stranger.
In a soup kitchen.
In an airport.
The key is to never stop looking.
Thank you,
Federico Hewson
Project Director
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Bedankt
