PLACES OF SPIRitUAL POWEr.
AND Places that need healing.
Every religion believes in the power of its holy places. Billions of people make pilgrimages to them. However, there are also other places that represent what makes us human beings, like universities. We bring the Monument of Hope to these places of power and "charge" it with the positive energy of the places and the people. They are cities like the Vatican or Jerusalem. They are places like MacLeod Ganj in Dharamsala, the seat of the Dalai Lama. And they are sites of science like Princeton University, a place that laid the groundwork for more than 70 Nobel Prize winners. The Monument of Hope world tour is a journey in which we take the sculpture to some of the most significant places of humanity and our civilization.
But we also want to bring the artwork to places that need peace and healing more than ever.
THE MONUMENT OF HOPE WORLD TOUR 2024
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN.
KYIV, UKRAINE.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
PRINCETON, NJ, USA.
SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA.
MACLEOD GANJ, DHARAMSALA, INDIA.
IF POSSIBLE:
MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Vatican City, Vatican.
The Maidan in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Al-Aqsa-Mosque in Jerusalem, Israel.
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, originally built as an Eastern Orthodox church, until 1935 and since 2020 a mosque.
The Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, home of 75 Nobel laureates who have been affiliated with the renowned university.
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the Holy Land of the ancient indigenous communities of the Kogis, Arhuacos, Wiwas, and Kankuamos in Colombia.
The Namgyal Monastery, the personal monastery of H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama in MacLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, India.
IF POSSIBLE: MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Saint Basil's Cathedral, the Orthodox church in Red Square of Moscow.
There is an other side of Russia: people who reject and abhor war. Our goal is to place the sculpture on Red Square in Moscow as a symbol of a world without war, of the beginning of a new peace and, hopefully, of a new understanding. Whether this will ever be possible depends on many factors. But we will try.
A program that unites people
Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier will be invited to join the future dialogues
FUTURE DIALOGUES WITH BRILLIANT MINDS
Future dialogues will be held with inspiring personalities, local partners and institutions on topics such as peace, freedom, hope, tolerance, health, faith, inclusion, spirituality, the arts, and science. Various Nobel laureates will be invited to Princeton University to send their positive thoughts to the people of our world.
Invited to the McLeod Ganj ceremony in Dharamsala, India: HH The 14th Dalai Lama
CEREMONIES WITH SPIRITUAL LEADERS
Priests and Catholic monks will pray in front of St. Peter's Basilica for our world, peace, and tolerance, we will invite H.H. The Pope to bless the Monument of Hope, Buddhist monks and H.H. The Dalai Lama will be invited to meditate in McLeod Ganj in front of the monument, and Jews to pray in synagogues in Jerusalem for a peaceful coexistence in the world. The World Tour is designed to unite people.
Artists from around the globe will be invited to participate in these global events
PERFORMANCES AND MEDIA EVENTS
Artists, celebrities, athletes, actors, writers, business leaders, politicians and exceptional individuals of civil society will be invited to media events and roundtable discussions at all world tour destinations. The Monument of Hope’s entire journey around the globe will be filmed for a TV documentary that will be broadcast worldwide.