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Composed, Created and Directed by Dawn L. Ferguson Children Singing Peace Around the World is a living prayer to heal the Earth sung with heartfelt commitment by youth and elders around the globe. Originally composed on Mt. Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii, its message of Peace and Aloha radiates worldwide through CSPAW programs, recordings and sharing heart to heart. Click to order CSPAW Volume One CD/DVD and to download CSPAW Vol.One Songbook pdf file |
Australia, May/June, 2003
Waratah School of
Technology
CSPAW practice and learning
about Aboriginal art, gardening, instruments
Debbie Towers(Warramah),
aboriginal artist and teacher "saw" Dawn's vision when she first met her
and was inspired to express it in an aboriginal painting which she presented
to Dawn as a gift upon her first visit to Waratah High. She calls it "Dawn's
Dreaming" and writes:
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April McTaggart, an art student of Debbie Towers at Waratah HS shares her painting entitled "Reconciliation". "The circle in the center represents all people, black and white coming together as do the many flags on the periphery." The base of the circle rests on "Uluru, one of our natural marks." |
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The Bush Tucker Garden is an Aboriginal Studies experiential learning project where the students are learning about the herbs and plants collected by their hunter/gatherer ancestors and their many applications. Teacher, Simone Jordan guides the project and resident artist, Debbie Towers helps students create aboriginal art depicting the garden. Their art projects extent around the school yard where one views numerous aboriginal paintings on the garden and school walls beautifully portraying aboriginal stories and themes. |
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"I did these aboriginal clapsticks
(an aboriginal musical instrument). First I painted the wood black....then
I took a crayon and did dot painting...then I painted the underside brown.....the
brown side is where you are meant to hit them together so you don't scratch
the dots off."
Emma Boswell, student Clapsticks and nydaki(didgerido) were the aboriginal instruments used for the Gamilaraay/Gimbaynggirr recording of Children Singing Peace Around the World. |
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"Our involvement with Children
Singing Peace has been a beautiful experience. We've been able to
give these kids an idea at an early age, and build a foundation of what
it's like to be in a peaceful environment. ....to encourage nonviolent
reactions to certain situations and to educate them on choices that they
can make to live like that .
Now they haven't always had an opportunity to learn these things because of the way society is at the moment..... Our values have certainly got alot to be desired in some areas of our lives. .. For these kids to be involved in something like this...... where they've given from themselves, from their own experiences....from their own culutre...to share with other children around the world ...it's just beautiful." Simone Jordan (Warramah and Maori), Aboriginal Studies Teacher and Liason, Waratah Technology High. |
| "This experience for our aboriginal
students has been a once in a lifetime. They've actually discovered
their language as a result of this opportunity to sing about peace.
The Elders got together, the children got together......and I've just come
from an assembly where several of the children sang for their peers.
It was mindblowing....the whole assembly was quiet and they watched.... they
were truly appreciative to have this opportunity. Thank you Dawn and
thank you to all the children around the world who are singing about peace."
Robyn Cragg, Principal |
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| Some of the students (April, Whitney, Kerindy, and Sarah) who chose to sing and dance the Gamilaraay/Gimbaynggirr version of Children Singing Peace Around the World for their peers at two school assemblies (500 students at each assembly) Their courage, commitment and beauty was remarkable as they shared some of their culture with others. Thank you! |
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