Some different hosting ideas… and we welcome your suggestions!

If you are of a low-income marginalized community, OBPP offers partial to full sponsorships. Please inquire at openbookpeaceproject@hotmail.com


For All Hosts: Hosts are considered collaborators and this makes you very important! Hosts are asked to outreach to the community and promote OBPP participation. Because you know your community best – you are in a position to make very important decisions. Please consider the following possibilities.


OBPP in a big way: Start a sustainable OBPP peace project of your own! Sponsor a one month OBPP Book exhibit, invite an OBPP artist to guide you through an OBPP Weekend Arts program and the teacher’s instruction guide. Host support necessary: please inquire at
openbookpeaceproject@hotmail.com


An OBPP Book Exhibit
The OBPP book is one of the most unusual books in the world! Offer an opportunity for your community to enjoy it. In Chicago, the book can be taken out on borrowed for day–to a week.


The Open Book Peace Project eight week arts program: (Full Sponsorship is necessary for this 24 hour program) Week one: OBPP book exhibit, peace discussion make a community recycle box Week two: start a personal peace book journal, peace discussion Week three: construct a personal peace symbol, peace discussion Week four: page design and stamp making Week five: hand-papermaking Week six: book construction using recyclable materials, page design Week seven book construction using recyclable materials, page design Week eight: book binding


The Open Book Peace Project weekend arts program: peace discussion, papermaking, peace symbol construction and bookmaking Suggested donation $300.00, includes materials


A one-day Open Book Peace Project workshop for teachers
Interested in having your students create a community peace book? Invite an OBPP staff member to guide you and your teachers through the process. The entire process will take a full day. This instruction will include a summary of OBPP practices: how to start a community peace discussion, how to create a personal peace symbol, art making, creative writing, stamp carving, papermaking and book construction using recyclable materials. All part of a day with the OBPP! Best deal in town!

Do it on your own -- Family and friends peace-page Session
If you do not have a space to host a public event, you can host an informal response-page session with friends and family. Simply contact the OBPP and we will send you some blank pages for your group to write or draw their responses onto. We will try to guide you through the process from afar. Send the completed pages back to the OBPP, and volunteers will sew them into the peace book.

An OBPP full day Papermaking Marathon:
A full day of fun with papermaking, pulp painting and stencil making. Equipment and materials included.


Are you a papermaker? Please consider offering a batch of handmade paper for your communities’ peace-pages or for other communities. Contact OBPP for how to start.

from the book:
"one way we work to make peace is what we do with our activities and how we use our time and our brains and our hands and our gifts and our resources and our tiny lifespans... one way we make peace is by having inner, individual, small peace in small different moments of peace. when we bring our little piece or glint of peace and form a team then we bring peace by interacting peacefully with each other and by engaging in earth friendly activities and support each other to create new beginnings"

Hosts may invite an artist-activist from their own community to lead the process or invite one of the project's organizers to lead the process or collaborate with a local facilitator to:

  • Direct participants to respond to a question contributed by a previous participant.
  • Encourage imagination and creativity.
  • Encourage multi-lingual participants to translate their contributions into as many languages as possible.
  • Focus on and explore a particular approach to peace with your group, one that is important to all of you. This will help create a good discussion and more effective peace book.
please email openbookpeaceproject@hotmail.com if you'd like to host an OBPP event
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