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International Art & Peace Project (2018 - 2020)

World Premiere - Part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts

This international art and peace project commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons signed by the nuclear-weapon states USA, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain in 1968.

The artistic concept behind 50 Cities - 50 Traces is to juxtapose individual traces from 50 Mayors for Peace cities, highlighting the diversity and beauty of these cities and the daily life taking place therein. The exhibition is conceived as an invitation to respect and preserve the world’s visible remainders, which are bearers of memory. It is an appeal against the destruction of our cities, against the deployment of nuclear weapons – thus supporting the core idea behind the Mayors for Peace movement: “Cities are not targets.”

Sept. 21, 2018 Opening Reception at 7:30 pm, with brief remarks by Feyisola Alabi, Special Initiatives Manager for the City and Project Manager for Welcoming Pittsburgh,German artist Klaudia Dietewich, Curator Raimund Menges, North American Coordinator for Mayors for Peace Jackie Cabasso, and featuring an original jazz composition byaccomplished Pittsburgh pianist Irene Monteverde at the Cultural Trust’s 937 Gallery, at 937 Liberty Ave. 15222.

Sept. 22, 1:30pm Gallery talk by German artist Klaudia Dietewich, Curator Raimund Menges, with Jackie Cabasso, North American Coordinator for Mayors for Peace

For more information see RememberingHiroshima.org or email RHIP1945@gmail.com

This exhibition is presented by Remembering Hiroshima Imagining Peace, Mayors for Peace, City of Asylum, and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.