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| I Fam Encourages Artists To Use Talents To Reduce World Hunger by DC  New organizaton I Fam - International Fellowship Of Artists & Musicians - encourages artists to use talents to reduce world hunger and suffering. USA artist in residence to Benin Diane Cameron issues clarion call to artists and musicians to join the reconciliation rennaissance. The "Reconciliation Renaissance" is a new form of human expression of regard by civilization for God's creation, the natural world and all of life. It is the articulation of a new spirit of action and cooperation respecting the endowed natural right to self-expression in work and the receipt of its benefits, the fruits of labor.It is the awareness, recognition, and acceptance of each living sole as an equal heir to the creation entitled to the natural wealth provided in abundance for life's security and happiness. In its highest form the Reconciliation Renaissance is the expression of sorrow and shame for any wrongful acts of the past and joy at the possibilities of developments, which correct past misdeeds. The act of apology must be given freely without coercion and must be accepted without conditions. This then is a complete reconciliation between perpetrator and victim and the first step to a world with a "Zero Tolerance for Poverty" The Reconciliation Tour is a movement by artist to bring awareness to the issue of hunger and poverty not as an issue of scarcity, but is a movement of morals and spiritual persuasion to freely and without government intervention induce those with more than enough to share their wealth with those without enough. The movement promotes "Zero Tolerance for Poverty" as a policy to be adopted by the world. The tour recognizes the special role of artist in society to provide insight, provoke thought, and induce new energies for action. The artist through song, dance, writing, theatre, sculpture and painting arrives at deeper insights long before the politician, engineer or business entrepreneur. It is for these reasons that musical artist from the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Caribbean and around the world, form Reconciliation Tours. The current concept is for the Tour to originate in home cities or countries and expand from there. The Artist themselves provide the governance according to their heartfelt expressions of ending poverty and world suffering through art. The "Reconciliation Renaissance" has come to symbolize a global effort to achieve freedom and Democracy in the 21st century led by the people of Benin and supported by scientific, religious, Political and artistic leaders from the United States and Europe. The Reconciliation Tour is design to bring attention to the reconciliation method as a strategy other than war and to promote reliance on the artistic spiritual realm to advance the human condition. The tour is not simply a concert to dramatize the plight of the poor and condemnation of the wealthy. Instead the tour organizes artist into action guilds to work through their mediums to persuade greater fairness and justice through reconciliation, moral considerations, for equal access to the natural wealth provided by God to all and equitable distribution of that wealth. Cameron tells Jazz News, "We live in a Global Society...Our neighbors are next door or a continent away. Our prayers should not be just for our children...but also for the children we may never meet. When I eat a meal and drink clean water, I should be mindful that my neighbors across the waters may not have eaten in a week. When I am tempted to complain about the rain, I repent and remember that my sisters and brothers in other countries have not seen rain for months. As musical artists, we are the modern day griots....we must tell the stories...the mantle is in our hands. Here is my contribution to my collective earth family....Its the least I can do....." Diane Cameron write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |