Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
[Ronne Hartfeld] We call on all artists in the global arts community to join us
in celebrating and fostering the values of love and forgiveness in the work that we do.
[David Colson] Each of us, in our own disciplines and communities, sees the need for healing
the necessity for deeper communication and emotional connection
[Hartfeld] and the need to serve as a beacon in a broken world
where anger and hostility too often supplant compassion and caring for others.
[Colson] We embrace the reality of mutual interdependence
and the particular role that creativity, imagination and inspiration
can play in addressing these challenges.
[Hartfeld] The arts expand our horizons, challenge our preconceptions
and allow both artist and audience to transcend the limitations and barriers
of our inherited past and day-to-day lives.
[Colson] The artist, thus, has a special responsibilities in a vital calling
to draw upon his or her talents in changing hearts and minds.
[Hartfeld] In the spirit of the Fetzer Global Gathering in Assisi in September 2012,
we publicly express our support of the Gathering's espousal of the centrality of love and forgiveness,
[Colson] give our commitment to these values
[Hartfeld] and urge other artists to join us.