April 11, 2011

Cranes for Peace

Hello friends,
I'm trying to make 1,000,000 paper cranes by October 9, 2011-- John Lennon's birthday.


  <--John Lennon, the most influential peace activist and musician of all time

 As the old Japanese legend goes, with 1,000,000 cranes we will have 1,000 wishes. At the end, I want to distribute the cranes to random people in the city so that they can write wishes on the wings of the birds. At the end, I'm going to send them all to Yoko Ono as a big collection. This is supposed to unify the Austin community, and be an activity to help prevent violence and hate in the future. 


  <--Cranes, symbolic for peace and love and harmony



So I need help making the cranes, and at the end, I'm going to need help getting the cranes out to the community. Please help by making as many cranes you can, any shape, type, or size, and donating them. Ten cranes a day is 140 cranes in two weeks. I've already collected 200 cranes within the two days since the project started. Great instructions and a cool video of how to make them are here if needed: http://origami.org.uk/origamicrane 

Please help! :) You can either give the cranes to me, or drop them off in the orchestra room (I'll have to confirm with Mr. Potter to make sure that it's OK and that he has room, but I'll take them home at the end of the day). Please donate! 

Love,
Eve