Artists
Performance in New York City
"OUR GRIEF IS NOT A CRY FOR WAR!"
Times
Square, New York City, Tuesday September 25, 2001
to
buy "GRIEF" postcards click here
Report
of Friday, October 5 Performance:
on
friday, october 5th, in Times Square our group staged its third
performance of Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War. we numbered at
least 150 people and lined both long sides of the triangle. photos
of last night's performance are in a folder (Times Square October
5) at: http://photos.yahoo.com/ourgriefisnotacryforwar
Earlier
Performance report:
At
12 noon Saturday, over 100 artists all wearing black filed onto
Union Square at 14th Street in New York City where many people
have been gathering for the last 10 days to grieve and to try
to make sense of what happened on September 11.
A
hush fell over the crowd at Union Square as the artists took their
places in a semi-circle. For one hour they stood in silence wearing
dust masks and placards silk-screened with "OUR GRIEF IS NOT A
CRY FOR WAR."
The
response to this performance was electric, many people coming
up to take stickers, find out who these people were, and thank
them. Some were in tears.
The
performance happened again at Times Square and it has been on
the news in Athens and Dublin.
The
group who organized the performance were artists in film, video,
visual art, theater, dance, spoken word. They do not want their
grief to be used as a justification for war, attacks on Arabs
and Muslims, and new repressive laws or clampdowns. More artworks
and performances are being planned.
To
view more images of this performance, go to the yahoo.com
site
Union
Station, New York City, Saturday September 22, 2001
Times
Square, New York City, Tuesday September 25, 2001
>Download
stickers: "Our Grief Is Not
A Cry For War!"
A
group of artists in New York, including some people in the Artists
Network, have been meeting in the wake of the World Trade Center
disaster. We agreed that the top priority is to put out a message
as widely and as quickly and compellingly as possible which opposes
the moves to war and the attacks on the Arab people including
in this country. To that end, we have come up with two sayings:
Our
grief is not a cry for war!
ISLAM
is not the enemy. WAR is not the answer. Break the cycle. Pass
it on . . .
They
are available as PDF files in several formats, from 8 1/2 X 11"
pages suitable for postering to smaller sizes suitable for printing
out on stickers.
You
can download them from: http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/stickers
. Please print them out, get them up, and pass on the URL as widely
as possible -- right away. And if you want to connect with us,
write at this email address: rnrarts@hotmail.com
Times
Square, New York City, Tuesday September 25, 2001
