Peace Child Israel

Oneblue supports Peace Child Israel founded in 1988 using theater and the arts to teach coexistence and educate for democratic values, tolerance and mutual respect. Arab and Jewish teens work with counterparts from around Israel to create original dramas about coexistence. The plays, in Arabic and Hebrew, are performed for family, friends and the public at-large. Peace Child Israel is featured in the acclaimed film Beyond Our Differences. Watch this BBC report about Israeli and Palestinian teenagers participating in weekly PCI meetings over a two-year period. In 2007, Oneblue helped plan and administer the first visit of the Peace Child Israel teen theatre troupe to Washington, DC which included a tour of the capital, lunch at Busboys and Poets, and meeting Muslim and Jewish teenagers at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia for a discussion of their work. In June, 2009 Oneblue organized presentations of PCI team members with Jewish and Muslim teenagers at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, and the Ashburn Synagogue, and helped organize an interfaith benefit recital at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC by international opera star Sylvie Valayre. See video excerpts here