Fold BIRDs for Peace
Upcoming events updated in the Peace Birds Blog.
Thank you for your interest in contributing to this project! printable patterns are in the Dropbox folder and updated instructions in this Document.
The PeaceBirds Project is a community engaged art action that integrates shared stories of grief and renewal amidst the anguish of the repeated erasure of the people, culture, history, Land and Water in what is left of Palestine. What is happening to Palestine parallels the continual nation-building, collective massacres worldwide.
This project grew out of a shared desire of two artist friends, Mona Shiber and JuPong Lin, to transform the agony of witnessing atrocities happening around the world. Our people come from lineages of occupation and struggle for sovereignty, from Palestine and from Taiwan.
We actively fold paper doves and cranes for peace. We fold bires for every life flown too soon since the occurence of October 7th. Our aim is to gather many hands and hearts to fol dat least 35,000 birds, honoring each life taken (acknowledging the number keeps increasing). Our project has traveled as installation, workshop, and lectures in Vermont and Massachusetts.
We are starting a movement: hundreds & hundreds of people sharing in the folding of thousands & thousands of doves & cranes. Will you join us in starting this movement in your own circles?
Ways to help:
form circles to fold for peace, cranes & doves, together with others.
fold many birds to be added to the evolving installations.
string together folded birds
More opportunities to fold together will be posted on the News page.
We’re aiming for 16,000+ paper peace birds (figures changing as the death toll in gaza increases). Phase one was the installation for open studios at the Cottage Street Studios in EastHampton December 2, 3, and 9.
Please use the contact form above to offer help with stringing the folded birds and the installation, stay updated or to request the address where cranes can be mailed.
Phase two continues into 2024; we encourage local communities to host paper folding circles and create regional installations. Hundreds of thousands of people folding hundreds of thousands of peace birds everywhere all over the world!