Music festival showcasing the Middle East and N. Africa transitions to full-weekend outdoor music festival with national/international tour of original finale.

Performances include United Nations 60^th Anniversary and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

A series of arts-education literacy programs for public schools and arts-education leadership for universities exploring character choices and outcomes, personal/cultural history and understanding through musical theater, dance and drumming workshops.

Silent auction for group of Baghdadi artists who lost their homes and galleries due to war; sale of their art at Genesis festival in Chicago enabled us to return proceeds to the artists and their families while raising awareness of the plight of artists in active war zones.

400+ Chicago-area and 150+ LA-area children designed quilts with their images for world peace for Iraqi children abroad. Exhibited at Chicago Children’s Museum and LA’s Museum of Tolerance

Refugee women’s quilting co-op at the Genesis Peace Hub’s Social Entrepreneurship Center.

Creation of Saffron Caravan, Genesis’ Professional World Music Ensemble with WFMT live global broadcast.

From 2007-2019, performances and artist-in-residency programs throughout the world; roundtables on music and conflict transformation.

Humanitarian program brings gently used instruments and professional music education to at-risk youth living through conflict and/or challenged circumstances channeling potentially destructive passion into constructive activities.

A multi-segmented salon series explores thought provoking inquiries augmented through art.

• How do the Arts Transcend Barriers?
• What is a New Conversation for Human Rights?
• How Can Women’s Leadership Transform the 21^st Century? (annual since 2019)

Pre-university Chicago students join with others from areas of conflict. They love and learn together in four curricular areas:

• Heroes and Human Rights
• Music and Peacebuilding
• Environmental Sustainability
• Peace Journalism.

Program combines Saffron Caravan with Genesis youth musicians (Genesis Academy Summer Institute graduates). First programs out of virtual Peace Hub during the pandemic.

2022 – 2024: Live, in-person programs

• Chicagoland, DC, Philly, and NYC
• Global Tour to E and W Europe, the ME, Africa, and Latin America

Physically place-making our legacy piece. Institutionalizes our cross-cultural collaborative model. Designed as a convener, incubator, catalyst, and accelerator for building peaceful communities.

In additional to all Genesis arts and cultural programs and educational ones, it features a:

• Social Entrepreneurial Center
• Sports and Social Change Program
• Farm