Peace Notes

Calling all 2022 Fringe Artists! Applications are now open for the 2022 Peace Award at the Fringe. Apply online here. The Peace Foundation offers this award to Fringe artists whose work promotes peace, human rights, social justice and/or environmental sustainability....

Buy your tickets today and support the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation.   Every dollar from your purchase will go to the Peace Foundation and support our grants and awards working for peace through the arts. Plus, there are some amazing prizes up for grabs!     Early...

Each year the United Nations International Day of Peace is observed around the world on the 21 September. In 1981 the UN General Assembly declared this a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, within and among all nations and peoples. The first observance...

With the Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight, we remembered the inhumanity and devastation of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The Peace Foundation joined with Adelaide’s Romero Community for the annual 6 August commemoration...

Garry Stewart has been the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre since 1999. During this time he choreographed more than 20 works which have become renowned for their ambitious artistic collaborations, rigorous research and a compelling movement...

Peace Rules is an opportunity for secondary school performing arts students to address the question “What can I do to contribute to peace?” Promoting understanding, tolerance, inclusivity and care for our environment, students and teachers are offered the opportunity...

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who bought People’s Choice Community Lottery tickets to benefit the Peace Foundation. Were you a winner?  Read more …. We hope some Peace Foundation supporters were amongst the prize winners. Check out the full list of winning tickets...

We are pleased to announce that this year's recipient is Reckless Eye Productions for the documentary BEYOND SORRY (in production) about Aboriginal and settler descendants coming together to confront legacies of violence from Australia’s pastoral frontier. Read more …...

In 2020 the Peace Rules Showcase has been re-imagined for our COVID19 world, presenting a unique opportunity for secondary performing and creative arts students and teachers to create a film in their schools. Congratulations to the five successful schools who created...

The 2020 Peace Foundation SACE Art Show award recipient is Elias Raptis for his painting entitled I Too, Like You Had a Face. The theme of his work is the Holocaust and his painting, in mostly greyscale, depicts faceless people in the midst of violence and death. Read...