Join the Manchester Community Library for the opening of CITYarts Pieces for Peace, a traveling exhibition showcasing youth voices, creativity, and hope from around the world.

CITYarts engages youth with professional artists in the creation of public art, including murals and mosaics. Through this creative process, CITYarts empowers, educates, and connects youth and children locally and around the world to become active participants in realizing their potential and transforming communities.

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Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, CITYarts created the Pieces for Peace project under the Young Minds Build Bridges program. It is designed to build bridges of intercultural understanding by bringing together American youth and their international peers in the creation of 6”x6” artworks combining to form an Online Mosaic composed of tile-sized drawings, painting, and poems that answer the question: “What does Peace look like to me?”

Selected works then travel around the world in an exhibition. All of these ideas have inspired the imagery in our CITYarts Peace Walls– a collection of seven large-scale outdoor mosaic murals. They are located in Harlem, New York; Karachi, Pakistan; Tel Aviv Jaffa, Israel; London, United Kingdom; Berlin, Germany; Toro, Spain; and Wetteren, Belgium. Our Traveling Exhibition, which displays highlights from 126 participating countries, has visited 48 venues in 18 countries. Having organized at least one workshop in 126 different countries to date, our goal is to reach all of the world’s 193 nations. We are giving youth of all nationalities the chance to connect through PeacePals under the UN flag, who will transform into adults that give back to their communities.

“With our programs, we plant seeds of very-much-needed creative young leadership around the world.” – Tsipi Ben-Haim, Founder Executive & Creative Director, CITYarts