Glance at Culture - Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq on the International Child Art Foundation, the World Children's Festival, the Child Art Magazine and CreativeEmpaths

Warfare of Art & Law Podcast

To learn more, please visit the sites for International Child Art Foundation, World Children's Festival and the International Child Arts Olympiad (with coming plans for the Paris 2024 Olympics ).
Show Notes:
2:30 children’s creativity

3:30 empathy needed due to moral neutrality of creativity

4:30 adverse childhood experiences

5:20 transgenerational transmission of trauma and hatred

6:00 the International Child Art Foundation’s Arts Olympiad and World’s Children Festival

8:40 creative-empaths

9:30 Arts Olympiad winners at National Mall in Washington, DC for World’s Children Festival

11:50 overview of Ishaq’s background and work at World Bank

13:10 why adult’s imagination dries up

13:30 the fourth grade slump

15:40 2013 book “The Creativity Revolution: Reinvent Your Creative Self to Shape the Future and Prosper”

17:30 1 of 5 types of creators: Native

17:50 2 of 5 types of creators: Nomad

18:20 3 of 5 types of creators: Savant

18:55 4 of 5 types of creators: Empathic

19:15 5 of 5 types of creators: Spiritual

20:20 Book mixes history, economics and neuroscience

22:30 collaborated with National Institute of Health on its ABCD Study

24:00 MRI studies show 7-12 year olds are age group most prone to empathy

26:20 Healings Art Program began after Asian tsunami

29:10 Peace Through Art Program began after 9/11 attacks

31:10 ICAF’s collaboration on treasure hunt book “Xavier Marx and the Missing Masterpieces”

32:10 UN General Assembly’s efforts to revive human security campaign

35:40 ICAF has had approximately 5 million children participated in Arts Olympiad to date

38:30 American Academy of Arts and Sciences’s 2021 report on the attributes, values and skills that come from arts education, including social and emotional development, school engagement and civic and social participation

39:15 children from certain countries can’t participate, e.g., North Korea

40:40 participants from African countries

41:10 blind musical group from Zimbabwe

41:30 indigenous from New Zealand playing the a traditional dance of that country's Māori people, the haka

42:40 ICAF;s current work and structured lesson plans

43:45 fall semester 2023 for next program

44:30 summer 2024 for next festival

46:30 scholarships

47:00 participants from Romania

48:30 social function of art

50:10 9/11 began his thought about moral neutrality of creativity

53:00 upcoming festival project for partipants to create children’s earth flag for NASA’s first human mission to Mars

54:15 UN’s human securities artworks

56:30 new mothers as supporters

57:00 ChildArt Magazine

58:00 magazine’s theme on the power of words, mindfulness, Metaverse, animal Art

59:20 Legacy

1:00:00 pre-WWII, Olympics gave awards for the arts

1:00:50 Paris 2024 Olympics and LA 2028 Olympics

1:01:45 definition of justice

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