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In 2003, CFP recognized the need for their message to reach
children in a more direct and efficient way, as youth hold
the ability to create a new world of respect and peace in
their hands. As a result, CFP launched Call for Peace the Next Generation
(CFPNG),
a group of youth performers who can relate to the younger
audience members as peers. In a time when youth are plagued by having to face
violence, prejudice and more, and students’ opportunities
to witness and participate in performance art are becoming
increasingly rare, it is becoming crucial to expose youth to
peers who celebrate our diversity with acceptance and
express themselves creatively through the arts. For these reasons,
CFPNG provides quality performance programs that inspire and
fuel imagination and understanding among all audience members,
actively encouraging youth to explore a new and significant
means of creativity and communication.
CFP’s youth performers have performed in and
around Dane County, including such events as Kids for Peace
Day at Madison’s Children’s Museum (9/03), Celebrate
Youth (11/03), the opening of the Hmong exhibit at the
Madison Civic Center (1/04), International Days at the
Madison Civic Center (2/04) and Wisconsin School Age Care
Alliance Conference (4/04). Performances are showcased based on
their relevance to particular age groups, and each performance
opens with a message of peace, followed with drums and dance,
highlighting over 10 possible individual cultural dances,
and concludes with the spectacular Circle Dance that joins
all artists in a powerful celebration of unity and harmony.
In past performances, CFPNG has moved its audience to
tears as it artistically revealed the common thread that
connects all of humanity.
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