LOVE AND FORGIVENESS - A CALL FOR ART

Love and Forgiveness - A Call for Art, a citywide art competition launched in fall of 2014 by Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society, has accepted entries from over 60 middle and high school students from 20 different throughout NYC, including MS51, Brooklyn Technical HS, Midwood HS, William Alexander Middle School, MS245, Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy, NYC iSchool, STAR @ Erasmus Hall, Jonathan Levin HS, HS of Art & Design and LaGuardia HS.

On Saturday, April 25th, from 7-10pm, at the Helen Mills Event Space and Theater at 137 West 26th St., Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society will award the creators of each of the top five works with a $500 prize.

Works were judged by Shirley Taylor, Director of Education at the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc., Leanne Stella, Founder ofArt in FLUX Harlem & FLUX Art Fair and Lisa Cooper, Independent Art Consultant and Owner of Elisa Contemporary Art Gallery in Riverdale, NY.

About Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society:

Under the leadership of Master Hsin Tao, the Taiwan based Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society has long distinguished itself in international circles as a proponent of interfaith dialogue, as founders of the Museum of World Religions and the Global Family for Love and Peace. With the 1996 formation of their One Center in NYC, now located in Flushing, Queens, the organization has established a base from which they will continue to bring together people of different faiths to explore their common ground.

More about Love and Forgiveness – A Call for Art:

With the support of the Fetzer Institutute, Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society has developed this unique art competition for NYC middle and high school students in order to stimulate an interfaith dialogue around the topic of loveand forgiveness. The competition has offered young people throughout the city an opportunity to explore their thoughts and feelings about this topic, using art as a medium to connect them across differences in faith and cultural identity.

The evening will feature an exhibit of the top 35 pieces of student art from our competition, as well as a ceremony to award five $500 prizes to the top selections. The Venerable Guang Guo Shih, head of Ling Jiou’s NY center will speak, along with other invited clergy. The program will also include a guest performance by Young Dance Collective, live music by Michael Sansonia and Jim Ferraiuolo, food by Feast On Us Catering and an abundance of conversation and family fellowship around the theme of Loveand Forgiveness.

RSVP Here.

Contact: Deborah Oster Pannell acallforart@ljmnyc.org

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