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“I believe the creative imagination rules the universe.” Willie Nelson”Imagination is the beginning of creation; you imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.” George Bernard Shaw

Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute is featuring art and the artist on Willie Nelson’s Peace web site. We believe artists have the ability to take the invisible and make it visible.

Art is an act of creation.

Through the arts whether it is performance, studio, media or literary arts creative people take an idea and convey that idea to us. We then begin to think about the idea as a reality. The idea then becomes a thing, a tangible object.

Peace begins in our thoughts.

The artist manifests a vision in our mind by planting a seed of an idea. This seed then can grow into a tangible object in our material world.

Visualize a Peaceful World.

Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute will introduce you to poets, writers, actors, songwriters, singers, musicians, performers and other passionate creative individuals who dedicate their lives working to show us how important and possible it is to create a peaceful and healthy environment for all. But that’s not all. Ultimately they show us something more important.

We are all Artists.

We all have the ability to take an idea in our mind and manifest it in our world as a tangible object.

We can create a Culture of Peace together.

Sometimes all we need is the permission to do so. Often I hear someone say after viewing art,”I can do that”. Good that is the point.

Do it!

You have all the permission you need.

Help Peace Go Viral.

“Please Don’t Call It Theater When You’re Talking About War” is Sharon Abreu’s first music video.

Born into a musical family, Sharon Abreu was singing harmony before she knew the word. She was inspired by the great Broadway musicals. She credits her mother for the piano lessons and a decent public school music program for the violin lessons, which helped a shy girl to connect with other people. She started writing songs at 14, filled with romantic notions about what a first love would be like and as a way to express frustration over her difficult relationship with her father.

Struggling with that relationship and being teased in school, she was acutely aware at a young age of what it felt like to experience injustice. Her inability to accept injustice, in her life or in others’, led her to become a peace and environmental activist. Deeply connected to the music of the 1960s, she feels a responsibility to that revolutionary, hopeful, heart-wrenching decade. The music of the 60s followed her into the 2000s, where peace and antiwar songs are again desperately needed.

There is nothing Sharon loves more than singing for and with people, and writing songs that grab people by the heart, moving them to laugh, cry, think, or all three. Whether singing a Yiddish folk song, a comic opera by Mozart, or an original song about climate change, she is in her bliss.

Sharon has been privileged to perform in concert with Pete Seeger and to sing for many peace and environmental events. She feels blessed to be able to share her voice and music, to connect and sometimes to be able to shift people’s views and energy through music, to move something that might otherwise remain stuck or unnoticed.

After Sharon and her life/music partner Michael Hurwicz moved to Washington State in 2001, they started Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education. Their climate change musical revue “Penguins on Thin Ice” was performed at the U.N. in May 2007 to reach delegates making decisions for the world on energy and climate change at a heart level.

Music and humor keep her afloat. She teaches singing, believing that if more people felt comfortable with their voices we’d have a far more peaceful world. Feel free to contact Sharon. sharmuse[at]gmail.com

Thank you Sharon for contacting Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute. It is an honor to feature your music video on our site. Your boldness and passion inspires all of us to share our vision of peace and love with the world.

There are several ways to be featured on Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute web site. It takes each one of us to create Peace. Be bold. Boldness has genius. Contact Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute today.

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