Photos from the July 6, 2011 launch of the “9/11 Tenth Anniversary Reflections” public art project. You can watch the slideshow or click on any photo to read the captions in our gallery. Photos by Valerie Ghent; Peter Minuit Plaza, NYC.
BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share that one of our Feel the Music! murals will have its first opening at Tribute WTC Visitor Center this summer. Tribute WTC Visitor Center will display one of the Feel the Music! murals during the upcoming 10th anniversary. To have the work of 9/11 families in our Feel the Music! program recognized by Tribute, which welcomes 500,000 visitors to the WTC site each year, is indeed an honor – especially this fall, during…
In keeping with our mission of providing a space for creative expression, Feel the Music! has launched the Mural Project, a nine-month visual art project to create a group of murals commemorative of the upcoming 10th anniversary of September 11th. In an effort to pay homage to the past, and thinking towards the future, families who lost a loved one on 9/11 are invited to come and join the project on a bi-monthly basis between the months of October 2010…
Feel the Music! event: Saturdays at Saint Peter’s, Saturday June 12, 11am-2pm. Join us for art, music and movement workshops. Free. Light lunch provided. Open to all 9/11 families. To register, please email Lucia Dundara at lucia@musicandhealing.org.
The frog project continues! Feel the Music! families hand-painted a second batch of percussion frogs and we sent them to an army hospital in Iraq. These hand painted “Feel the Music!” frogs provided much needed moments of joy to dozens of soldiers. What brought tears to our eyes was learning the soldiers, once out of the hospital, are giving their frogs to Iraqi children.
The frog is an unlikely symbol of recovery, resilience and compassion. Yet for families who lost loved ones on September 11th, in the 2004 Madrid bombings, and for families left devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the humble frog became a gentle reminder that others “care about us and share our sorrow.”
