A community artwork for peace
On 15 April 2014 at the D&D about Competition and Collaboration, Maria, Susy, Tom and Marissa put hearts into 5 dolls and we finished them all.
Give me a heart! someone said and we started.
This was the first time the dolls were given the opportunity to speak their silence into the microphone. It was great!
Thank you all
My dearest friends Claudia and Vera took the initiative to create the event Bonecos Sonhos Coração in São Paulo Brazil last Sunday 16 March 2014.
Leky, Chris, Carlos, Roney, Claudemira, Otacilio, Dedé, Rosangela, Jairo, Cris, Marina, Angelica, Danieli, Livia, Talita, Maria Cecilia, Marinalva, Claudia, Vera, Neca, Rica, Flavia, the children Gabi, Luana, Laura and Bruno came to sew the dolls and we had a very special afternoon together.
Everybody drew, cut and sewed the dolls. We stuffed them with dreams and we put hearts into them making the meditation ritual to connected with our own hearts. We sewed 39 dolls, 23 of them are finished.
When we finished our workshop we celebrated Sunday full moon gathering our dolls in a circle.
Some comments
‘I feel that you managed to invent a way to make everyone stop and do something for others in a simple and soulful way. It is the practice of generosity. It is pure Art and action. It is engendering something the world really needs. We make a doll which has dreams and a heart, we send love and hope to everyone in the world, it is well-targeted magic’
‘It is meditative, a delicate thing to do in the middle of a trampled life. What unsuspected delicacy we discover in us and in others! The silent moment of putting dreams inside the dolls and connecting our heart with the heart that will inhabit that doll. That afternoon resonated with me for a long time. It still does, thank you. It was a lovely moment, in the middle of the city, this microcosm of craziness so lacking in the energy which was in that room’
‘This is a courageous and lovely project Regina! This project is symbolic of the urgent need to expand our awareness that we are all connected by a network of light and shade, for which we are all responsible. I hope that our dreams circulate, nurture and cultivate human solidarity, with faith and love for all of us. Simple as that!’
After this afternoon I must add into my list of things we need to do to be alive, from 28/02 post,
8. Friends
I am immensely grateful to everyone.
Thank you!
Click for ‘Bonecos Sonhos Coração‘ event.
Dreams are like gravity – let’s sleep and dream.
I went on 27 February 2014 to another great D&D event-What are we really going to do about Race and Diversity in UK Theatre? with the dolls.
Six people came to help me put hearts into them and we made 7 dolls in total.
We had one to one experience most of the time.
Some comments:
‘I lost my heart…’
‘Thank you, a lovely break from intense discussions’
‘This is lovely, such a moment of rest, relaxation, focus and happiness’
The session inspired me to write down a list of things we need to do to be alive. I’ll write in a particular order where the first thing is the most important and so on
1. Breath
2. Sleep-Dream
3. Wake up
4. Walk
5. Drink
6. Eat
7. Enjoy
We don’t need to remember our dreams, eventually it might be useful but it is not necessary. We will dream anyway. It is like the gravity, we do not struggle to be here, we just are. When we dream and we wake up we know where to go and how to feed ourselves at any level. We enjoy and our heart is happy. This is the moment to change what need to be changed, so let’s sleep.
I am extremely grateful to the event Devoted and Disgruntled 9 that happened in the last weekend of January 2014 in London. It was the first time I had the opportunity to really feel and confirm my vision, to experience the dimension of the 700 dolls project in the world. The dolls have been given amazing moments by this incredible D&D space. They have supported the project since the very beginning giving me real love to keep going. Thank you!
I called a session suggesting we could reach the target of 63 dolls which represents 9% of them to celebrate D&D 9.
We put the heart into each doll, we had our quiet moment feeling our own hearts beating, we completed their legs with dreams and most of us sewed their legs.
We reached the target of 63 dolls.
I felt like I was in paradise having such an amount of generous people helping me to make the dolls.
We were in another space and time, with everybody but invisible. I could feel the density of this other world. We were supporting the entire group with this ‘love machine’ during 4 hours non stop. Real, concrete, practical love, simple and profound love that transforms us in our very centre.
Some comments:
‘I found out these dreams on the floor’
‘I made three dolls, one for me, one for my mother who died last October and one for my dad who died 10 years ago. I passed on their love, hope and generosity to be with the dolls wherever they go. I am so thankful for this opportunity to spread peace to myself and to the world’
‘I made 12 dolls for my father’s freedom because his freedom depends on 12 people’
‘ A real moment of stillness and focus on a shared humanity, for me a very personal experience which helped with some present difficulties, wonderful’
‘Provided space and a moment of calm during a hectic weekend’
‘I felt a sense of peace and gratitude. I had not realized I needed the quiet. Nor did I realized how I would enjoy, in that moment, connecting to a sense of global and, indeed, the whimsical. One small act is what I have to give’
‘Making my doll was very calming and helped me check back into myself. The quiet, the concentration, knowing that you are helping in a little and large way. It felt beautiful. Feeling the rhythm of the movement and the accomplishment. It was lovely, just lovely’
‘I liked to sew the dreams into the leg. It helped me focus and concentrate after a long day of discussions and talking’
‘Thank you for bringing the dolls at D&D. It was a lively moment for me when I sat down and had the opportunity to breath, close my eyes and feel my own heart beating. After two days of work and talks, it felt peaceful to have a moment of silence and recollection. I sewed two dolls, and it was special. Very poetic, yet simple. I wish you good luck with this beautiful project’
‘Thank you. Doing my bit touched my heart more than anything in the last days, let’s make 7 000 000 000’
Thank you so much everyone!
