BOWAND works on international peace project

Several Canadian women artists are travelling the world inviting their colleagues to join in the creation of a peace banner. The project, sponsored by the Women’s Art Resource Centre in Canada, is working with the Belize Organization for Women and Development to add the skills of Belizean women to the international work of art.

Lillette Barkley Waite, Executive Director, BOWAND

“This workshop is to work with women in arts and also we are trying to get young people, young ladies who have not been exposed to the art, so that they may be exposed to something else, another part of culture. The banner is being done in order to join up the bigger banner to promote peace. So its labeled Women For Peace and it will be displayed next year at the international women’s conference in Toronto.”

“It’s supposed to first of all highlight women’s artists, who generally don’t get the exposure as male artists. And on the second level it promotes women for peace. As we know today there is lots of strife and war and this is a way of the women artists and women on a whole standing up for peace.”

Belize’s female artists will produce their part of the banner on November seventh and eighth at a workshop to be held at BOWAND’s office. The Women’s Art Resource Centre website is located at www.warc.net.