50 States of Tolerance tour & educational program for middle and high school students, produced by Grammy Award Winning artist Miri Ben-Ari.
ABOUT: 50 States of Tolerance will visit 50 schools in 50 states during the 2016-2017 academic year to benefit a minimum of 150,000 students on-location with an interactive tour of a live performance, multimedia and educational program.
A highly acclaimed national contest and scholarship program for middle and high school students to promote tolerance.
ABOUT: In partnership with "Scholastic Art & Writing Awards,” we ask students to create original works of art or writing that reflect upon the lessons learned from the Holocaust and other genocides with the intent to raise awareness of the importance of increasing tolerance to safeguard a peaceful society.
50 States of Tolerance tour & educational program for middle and high school students, produced by Grammy Award Winning artist Miri Ben-Ari.
ABOUT: 50 States of Tolerance will visit 50 schools in 50 states during the 2016-2017 academic year to benefit a minimum of 150,000 students on-location with an interactive tour of a live performance, multimedia and educational program.
This program offers a creative way to promote tolerance in schools: music has the power to inspire, connect and open people's mind, it makes a message absorbable. students are more likely to respond and take an action when they are being inspired!
Program will run along with the school calendar year.
A highly acclaimed national contest and scholarship program for middle and high school students to promote tolerance.
ABOUT: In partnership with "Scholastic Art & Writing Awards,” we ask students to create original works of art or writing that reflect upon the lessons learned from the Holocaust and other genocides with the intent to raise awareness of the importance of increasing tolerance to safeguard a peaceful society.
THE AWARD: Gedenk anonymously chooses six young artists and writers that are selected to win national medals and prizes of $1,000 each. Our national award-winning teens from across the country are awarded with a “dream trip” to New York City in June for a national celebration series of events in their honor, including an award ceremony at Carnegie Hall and a special filmed interview with Gedenk.
Appalled by studies showing that over 50% of high school students in America don't know what the Holocaust is, the “Gedenk Award for Tolerance” promotes tolerance utilizing cultural outlets such as music, art and writing in order to connect to the young generation and show that our past is relevant to our future. Gedenk's founders are second and third generation Holocaust survivors that established Gedenk realizing that there is an urgent need for a different approach to promote tolerance.
The Gedenk Award for Tolerance runs for the programmatic cycle of the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, beginning in August 2015 and at the Awards’ National Ceremony in June 2016.
SUCCESSFUL RESULTS: In the past three years we received an unprecedented amount of about 12,000 submissions which showed us that many young people today are passionate about promoting tolerance, diversity and ethnic understanding.
Mixed Media. Grade 8, Age 13, Northshore Christian Academy, Everett, WA.
Photography. Grade 11, Age 16, American Heritage School: Plantation Campus, Plantation, FL.
Personal Essay/Memoir. Grade 10, Age 15, Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT.
Ceramics & Glass. Grade 12, Age 16, Yorktown High School, Arlington, VA.
Poetry. Age 16, Grade 11, Red Bank Regional HSl, Little Silver, NJ. Gedenk Award for Tolerance with Honors!
Personal Essay/Memoir. Grade 12, Age 17, Home School, Ann Arbor, MI.
Congratulations to our 2017 Gedenk Award for Tolerance recipients: Nasim Dalirifar, Anlan Du, Rachel Jibilian, Suzan Kim, Christina Lewis, and Grace Li. Gedenk would like to thank all of the students that sent us...
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“The Gedenk Award for Tolerance made me feel
like I was a part of something bigger than myself.”
Jo de Waal, 2015 Gedenk Award for Tolerance Winner
“The Gedenk Award for Tolerance made me feel like
I had a voice to share with other people – not just with words,
but with a picture that can just say so much more.”
Ella Corwin, 2015 Gedenk Award for Tolerance Winner
“I chose The Gedenk Award for Tolerance because it is a powerful
organization that has a profound influence through changing
people’s mindsets and influencing the younger generation.”
Candace Seeger, 2015 Gedenk Award for Tolerance Winner
“The Gedenk Award for Tolerance
makes me have some kind of hope for change.”
Mya Nunnally, 2015 Gedenk Award for Tolerance Winner
I am proud to recognize an organization that dares to use non traditional methods, such as music and dance, to teach youth the importance of remembering our past.
Tom Lantos, Congress of the United States, House of Representatives
Grammy-Award Winning Artist Miri Ben-Ari Enlists Star Power for a good cause..to promote awareness and education about the Jewish Holocaust to young America.
The Hype Wire
The Gedenk Movement, founded by Miri Ben-Ari, has a unique struggle on their hands.
ABC12
Miri Ben-Ari-who has collaborated with rap artists like Kanye West-plays the violin, but also brings attention to the various causes she champins”
Jersey City Reporter
Ben-Ari founded Gedenk (“Remember” in Yiddish) to combat ignorance of the Holocaust among American youth.
The Jerusalem Post
We (Gedenk) encourage young people to break their silence while using creative outlets as self-expression.
The Huffington Post
We (Gedenk) only need to have enough audacity to make a difference!
The Huffington Post
Gedenk strives to empower young people, giving them the tools to stand up for themselves, their peers and their community against intolerance of all kinds.
The Jewish Voice
Gedenk plans to raise awareness of the Shoah through popular music and media and to reach young people
The Jewish Daily Forward