25 Nov 2011

UNRWA / JOHN QUIGLEY

2000 UNWRA school children take part in aerial installation project by American artist John Quigley at the Mount of Temptation in Jericho. UNRWA

Posted at: November 25, 2011 5:59 pm

Duration: 02:22

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STORY: UNRWA / JOHN QUIGLEY
TRT: 2.22
SOURCE: UNRWA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 24 NOVEMBER 2011, MOUNT OF TEMPTATION, JERICHO, OPT
 
 
SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, Mount of Temptation in Jericho with artist John Quigley and his associate walking into canyon by the foot of the mountain
2. SOUND UP (English) John Quigley, artist: 
"It's perfect. And then what I think we could do, we could move this twenty feet."
3. Med shot, teacher ushering children out of bus
4. Wide shot, artist John Quigley instructing local assistants how to put the vectors on the ground and draw the contour of the Picasso picture
SOUND UP (English) John Quigley, artist: 
"This is what we are going to be creating. This will all be made of school kids. These lines will all be the children."
5. Wide shot, children walking away along canyon
6. Wide shot, artist John Quigley and assistants marking the contour of the image
SOUND UP (Englosh) John Quigley, artist: 
"This is a relatively straight line from here to here."
7. Wide shot, along canyon. Children arriving.
9. SOUND UP (English) John Quigley, artist:
  Fifty! Five-O!
10. Wide shot, from above of first features of image
11. Med shot, boys walking up to position in image
12. Zoom out, image more developed
13. Close-up, boys sitting in formation
14. Wide shot, Quigley walking along formation of children
15. Wide shot, from above of image almost completed.
19. SOUNDBITE (English) John Quigley, artist: 
"I need Arabic!"
20. Wide shot, associate walking runs towards formation
25. Wide shot, children running. Quigley and local assistant with megaphone walk by
26. Zoom out, completed image 
27. SOUNDBITE (English) John Quigley, artist: 
"Jericho is as you all know the oldest continuously inhabited city. It's also the lowest spot on earth, so it's like the deepest, oldest place in the world. What better place is there to send a message of love from. And love all, it's not just love some. Love all. Love everyone. Love one another. And I think from here is a very powerful place. The resonance as it gets out to the world, hopefully, will be felt." 
28. Wide shot, children in completed image of Pablo Picasso's Peace Dove. Children cheering and dissolving image by walking away from formation.
 
STORYLINE:

Hundreds of young people from United Nations schools in the Jericho area today (25 November) created a massive aerial image in conjunction with the world-renowned artist, John Quigley, sending out a peace message to the world.

Directed by aerial artist Quigley, who has created mass images from groups of people for over a quarter of a century, they gathered at the foot of the Mount of Temptation just outside Jericho in the shape of Pablo Picasso's Peace Dove.

John Quigley worked with local assistants to create the grid for the image that the children would form.

Persons from all over Jericho volunteered to help the artist prepare the image on the day before and in the early morning of the day of the event, from refugee camp officials to Bedouin families living nearby the canyon where the Peace Dove was created. John Quigley went around the UN schools in Jericho the day before the event to ask the children to take part in the image.

Hundreds of children came to the canyon because they wanted to help Quigley on their day off, not because their teachers had told them to go.

The event was organized by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and the "Peace on Earth" project.

Filed under 13. - HUMANITARIAN AID AND RELIEF 13.01.00 - PROTECTION OF AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.