Excelente iniciativa, origami pel paz.
Abraço a todos.
Marcelo.

hey
i love doing origami i find it so relaxing but i want to find something to do with all the thing i make can some please tell me wat to do with them

THe peace of paper origami.

andrei shagibov sent an origami in the 2006 event
could I get in touch with him ?

hi
i am usman and a big fan of origami.i saw your site and i will like to mention that it taught me the most.your basic's section is the best and your site is the best i have yet encountered but i am not such a good paper folder to apply all your designs i am also a big fan of ninjas and stuff and really like to make their origami weapons i tried the shuriken and kunai but what i am most fascinated is the katana.i had liked it for as long as i can remember but recently i found that there is a way to make a paper katana but i was not able to make it there are only one instruction set available as far as i know and it is very difficult for me.please now i would ask your help ,please can you check out this link try out the katana and post some easy-to-follow instructions or if you could please post a video and send a link i would be forever greatful please help i have been turned down many times by other peoples most never reply others turn me down please please help me please help me.
awaiting your reply

I´ll tried to develop The World Art project for children through Origami in the Portuguese school and I put an advertisement in my blog, but I did´nt get many answers.
Best wishes
fg

I´ll try to make some artwork with my students. I think that I had only to send you the picture in the Origami class.Did I need to send you the work done? I´m looking forward for your reply. fg

I do origami every day and would love to participate e-mail back!

Thank You for mention my name as a participant of Origami Peace Tree project Brazil-2007. Unfortunately, my name writed without one cymbol: "Vitoria" instead of "Victoria". I will be very appreciate for You if You can fixing this bug. Thank You.

hello Origami,I want to learn this art.thanks

Origami
Congratulations on such a successful endeavour.

Dr Sr/Madam:Hi,I have love Origami for the last 52 years,after a friend in School show me how to fold my very first crane.I'm now 60 years old and I make cranes for children,because I love to see "the look of happiness in their eyes when they see that the wings actually can move!!!is like magic.Origami is like magic just from a little piece of paper you can make such beautiful things.
Thanks again for your work and I'm looking foward to 2009 when you will came to Australia.

Hi! I´d like to tell you that I love origami and last year I organized a peace tree at my school. Everyone at school folded cranes and we reached 1400, which was fantastic as my school has 800 only students. Now I'm trying to organize another peace tree project in my city.
Best regards
maria

Dear Alex and Larissa Levashov, We, Asociación Educativa ORIGAMI PERU wish to congratulate you for the success in your project. We participated in 2004 and hope to participate this year in Brazil. I also want to know what happenned to the WOW! What an Amazing World Project. I am interested in it.
Best wishes, Marta de Tagata

I´m a teacher. I'd like know more about your projet. I practice origami with my student and they learn geometry.

Thanks for the information about the origami and i am very glad that great number of people all over the world are taking care of the environment especially, "TREES"!

Je souhaiterais participer à cette manisfestation, où pourais-je avoir une famille Franco-polonaise, qui puisse m'acceuillir, pour partager avec vous cette manisfestation.
Merci de me répondre en français, je ne parle et écris que le français.
Je fais de l'origami depuis près de50 ans,et suis quand même encore un débutant...
Amitié.
Bravo pour cette initiative, et partage avec le coeur cette joie et cette attrait qu'est l'origami.
Lee.Schang

Dear “Origami Peace Tree” organizers,
We are members of “Asociación C.H.I.C.O.S (Con Hondo Interés Comunitario Obramos Solidariamente)”, located in Rosario, Argentina. We work in a social and communitary mission with the purpose of training and educating boys and girls who usually live in the streets.
We have been doing a social and public act already for 9 years, trying to bring the message for peace. With this main idea, we make anual Origami workshops in wich, among others things, we make cranes that we hoist in public places in our city every August 6th. . This act is growing every year with new children and adults and also other organizations who join us. If you can see all this in the pictures from our last act “2006 Thousand cranes for Peace” give me a mail and I send the page link
As soon as we have known about your proyect, we thought that it deserves all our support and we also believe that if we join our efforts, the results will bring benefits to this concern that we share. Working for peace is worth working together with all our resources; therefore, we would like that you consider the posibility of placing the Origami Peace Tree 2008 in Rosario, Argentina.

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Meri Affranchino, Marcela Lapenna, Nadia Gasparín,
Asociación C.H.I.C.O.S

We want to organise an origami workshop for kids in Pune - Kindly ask your Pune branch office to get in touch with me or you could give me a contact number if possible.
Thanks

Hey Alex,

in Brasil:

a pig - oinc-oinc
a dog - au-au
a cat - miau
a horse - hiiinch
a rooster - cócóricóóóó
a hen - có-có-có
a duck - qua-qua
a goose - ?
a turkey - glu-glu-glu
a cow - muuuuuuuu
a ram - mééééé
a crow - no crows in Brazil
a mouse - ?

regards,

Anna Mey

PS: We speak Portuguese in Brazil

Hi. I am a teacher. I have art students kinder to 6th grade who are woking on a project called "peace trees,"and I saw your website. We are havong a school show this early Dec. Can you please send me more information and your patterns? I am very excited about your orginization. Looking forward to knowing you more. Cheryl

Dear sir/madam.
I am craft-man from ghana i will like to take part any of your upcoming show.
thank you,
your's faithful Theodore taylor

i will be happy if you can give me some details about international artworks exhibiton. i mean i will like to attend any international exhibition because i am an artist.
thanks.

quiero aprender a hacer origami

me gustaria saber mas el arte de doblar el papel y donde conseguir materiales en paraguy

GALERIA ART-WORKS SL
Calle Paradis 3
08002 Barcelona; España

Galería Art-Works ha sido nombrada recientemente miembro de ISA “INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTIST” gracias a su interés tanto por promover y difundir el arte como por su apoyo a artistas de todo el mundo. Galería Art-Works es única en España distinguida como mimbro de dicha sociedad.

Fundada en Octubre del año 2005 en Barcelona. Con un enfoque cien por ciento a promover el arte en toda la comunidad, su fundador tiene la visión de hacer llegar el arte a toda la gente que gusta de este, en Galería Art-Works es posible obtener obras originales a precio asequibles para el publico en general estimulando así el arte tanto entre coleccionistas como en aquellas personas que inician su intromisión en este fascinante mundo.

La Galería pone en contacto directo artistas internacionales con el público, mismo que puede preguntar sobre las diversas obras e incluso discutirlas con el artista quien a su vez promueve directamente su obra.

Galería Art-Works promueve y ofrece a los amantes del arte la oportunidad de ver reunidas obras tanto de artistas de renombre a nivel internacional como de nuevos talentos artísticos de todo el mundo exponiendo sus obras de forma permanente, de esta manera los nuevos talentos pueden ser reconocidos al exponer en la misma plataforma con artistas de renombre y, el publico tiene una gama diversa de arte moderno y contemporáneo.

Galería Art/Works es única respecto a su calidad y, variedad de obras. Es un espectáculo visual con obras llenas de vida, emoción y pasión. Diversidad de tendencias, contenidos, estilos y, propuestas creativas se encuentran en la galería la cual cuenta actualmente con obras de arte moderno y contemporáneo de los siguientes artistas

i love origami i wich to now more

I am delighted to have discovered your site. I am a textile artist who will be teaching hand-printing to children this coming July. I thought Origami would be an excellent avenue to showcase the children's hand-printed papers. Now I see that Origami may be the invitation to a world peace movement that is in it's very nature peaceful and engaging, while providing a universal form of silent communication.

We are thinking in having a Peace Tree in September.Can you send me same advice for a suceful project.(´m folding for 20 years and I met same friends in AEP,BOS and CDO)

I love Origami very much because it shows another form of art.

we hope to all people in the world happy life , life full of peace and love and brotherhood ....im not Voltair to say philosophy of liberation , but also as palestinian sing for peace and mercy for all creatures

Origami for world peace may just be a drop in the ocean given the current world scenario and we may have "miles to fold before the Peace" yet we"ll fold on forever! Working towards OPT 2006 in Mumbai next month.

i studied your website.i am very intrested to join with you from nepal.i have also a org names world peace propagation forum(wppf)nepal.our activities is same as you. so please i want to be in cintack with you

Amo origami. Aqui em minha cidade e nas cidades vizinhas, divulgo e ensino gratuitamente a arte do origami.Vejo o origami como arte promotora da paz mundial, através da historia de sadako. BEIJOS E MUITO BOA SORTE NO SEU EMPREENDIMENTO!

hola como estan espero que esten muy bien y que sigan en la lucha en contra de la guerra
todos creen que colombia es un pais donde nose puede vivir tranquilo pero no es asi me gustaria que un dia viniera y conocieran la asociación bogotana de origami y conocieran las personas que la conforman y vieran los modelos que hemos plegado y creado.
mi telefono es 7327914 en bogota el indicativo es 01
chao espero que que sigan en esa lucha y nunca dejen de plegar

Hi,
I wish to recommend the above Origami website by David Petty, for your list of websites - it contains a wide and clearly organised collection of traditional origami models, to download as PDF files.

Dear colleagues,

Community Centre for Children and Young People in partnership with the ORIGAMI Centre from Moldova organize activities for children with special
education needs. It is important to mention that ORIGAMI is a really efficient method of bringing
children together and developing their creativity, communication and intelligence in general.

All the best,

MOTIVATION Moldova Association
Traian 23/1, MD-2060, Chisinau
Republic of Moldova

It is nice to see how people are using ORIGAMI as a mothod of integration. We try to do the same for our children with disabilities. Thanks.

Good Service

Surfing for Origami Peace Project, 2006, and came across our beautiful, informative website. Quite excited about the Festival in our city. Anyway we can help.
CHILDREN'S ORIGAMI CENTRE - 8 to 80!...in the making
(CREATIVE EDUCATION & RESOURCE CENTRE)
Mumbai.

I just surfed in google and came across your website. Nice informative site, well written, easy to navigate. Enjoyed your site very much!Great work...

I like the site pretty tidy.

curriculum

Curriculum de Hurard claude
I AM JUST VISITED YOUR EXCELANTE HOME PAGE . GRATULATION FOR YOUR GOOD WORK
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Fine website. I will visit again.

How does this web-site teach young kids how to do Origami????

PLEASE TELL ME

Kind regards josie

"Great project" This is what we need
world peace....God Bless everyone.

I want to learn oragami

i love origami, i teach origami, origami is my life- line. through origami i have seen many changes in people. origami can only bring peace, progress & prosperity in the world.

I love origami.I will bookmark for my sons to view , I want to learn oragami

Your site is very nice, we like it a lot. The works of July are also praiseworthy. We will continue to send other works for your project! Best regards!

This is all very good work, I like the idea of putting the origami models in a setting, with a background.

Hello!
You all made very nice jobs.
I think that color and texture are very important resources to be applied on origami constructions. That's my suggestion for your future creations, because you are great folders and may be even better.

Wonderful work - congratulations to all involved

nice site well done - greets from munich - marc

Hi,
I know the fairy tail about Colobok (Koblížek in Czech), but the end is completely new for me ;-))
Agreeable idea, have a nice trip, Colobok!

Great site. I will bookmark for my sons to view as well

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am an artist by profession and while searching for art trade fairs on Internet I came to know about your trade fair. I am very much keen to visit and exhibit my paintings in up coming event. So please tell me what kind of terms and conditions I will have to fulfill to participate in this event.

Also please tell me about all the expenditures, whatsoever can be occurred for this whole procedure.

I shall be very thankful to you for your kind act in this regard please.

Seeking an early and positive reply in this regard.

Thanking you.


(Nirmal Singh)

thx 4 letting me joining into this profect..but...i need 2 noe what can be done with origami.

Gratz!
I'm waiting this world-peace-origami page for a long time.
I meet many friends all over the world, even I'm in my home, in my country!
Internet can do these things.
Now we all together hand in hand with the origami.
Thanks for the OPT Levashov family.
Gratz again!

hey! congratulations! i love this page and your project... i also love origami.. so.. good luck!.. i so happy to know them..

A very nice project!I like origami, a in teacher in a school in CHORZOW. My students would be interested to send some of the models they have folded in class. Best greetings.

The origami peace tree fresh 4ever. with best wishes.

i want to learn oragami

Wish you every success for the Origami Peace Tree project.

May peace be with you.

George Ho
Website--Origami & Mental Health Therapy

I LOVE YOU ALL AND I DEY HERE

Dear Sir/Madam
I am doing world peace through painting with slogan "21st Century is the Century of Art and Peace" from !999. I was commited Over Nepal and India, Bangladesh, Germany. I am searching support for go more deeply and continue. Have also suporting UN Peace painting workshop as coordinate in Nepal under the UN/SPDI organize.
Well I like to requist you to visite my website and study then decide for me. Here is my web www.govindaforpeace.com
Sincerely yours
Govinda Azad
www.govindaforpeace.com
e-mail :- govinda_azad@yahoo.com

~Cute site~

i want to know how to do origami figures.

i enjoy origami and would like to know more about this project . please write back to me about the origami peace tree.

a really good site for people wanting to make origami art.

I remember Aleksandrr Levashov on a tanker loading crude oil at Flotta.
I am impressed with his work.

Wish you all the best.

My sister and I love origami a lot and been making lots of different things. Thank you Alex for sending me an e mail

A very nice project! Good work !

By the way, if you have time to visit austria:

http://www.babylife.at

A new exhibition with a very interesting sight!
Starts in Austria, Castle Grafenegg 2005

I knew this HP today and am excited!
I often think to want to do something for wolrd peace using origami.
But it's too big thing for me.
I didn't know what I can do.
I really like your work
and want to meet people who loves origami!

I heard the news OPT supported by UNESCO. Wow! Congratulations! I'll try more and more Koreans join this worldwide bueatiful art festival!

Congratulations, I love it very much. I really appreciate your work here, I think it will serve to many for inspiration and as a good information source.

~Great site~ :)

Hello!
Congratulations! I hope the Project can go on for years and years.
I invite you to visit my page - Super Origami - where you'll read about 2005 Germany Festival (in portuguese). This is the adress:
http://rfoelker.sites.uol.com.br/peacetree2005.html

I love origami. At this very moment me and my younger siblings are making different animals and boxes inspired to us by books that we have found in the public library in peterbrough. WE love exploring in paper of animal world and see how they turn out when you have finished. We start out making a waterlily but I turned it into a small flower. The art of paper folding is very peaceful because we can try to help each other out and enjoy our time with each other. It sort of like bonding with each other. But without knowing it. We might even create our own little gallery for others in our family to enjoy and amaze. It is sometimes very frusterating when you don't get the folds right. Well that is praciticlly our afternoon. Chaio.

I like origami

Hola queridos amigos de Origami Peace Tree quiero mandarles muchos saludos de parte de todos los mienbros de Henchia Origami y que si brillando mas cada dia este gran proyecto.
Felicidades!!!

Henrry Delgado
Henchiai Origami
Bolivia

Kawasaki rose folded by me is already sent to you for this year. We should do something more to bring all origamist together.

hi, i m an elemantary education teacher in turkeyç i wanted an organization in here too but i couldnot sponsored so i had to gave up. in april i think to make an exhibition (especially for kids)ç so i would like you to send me models if its possible for you and where ever you live in the world. i think to exhibit them with my models that i ve done them with the diagrams from internetç i thank all of you from now on. take care and fold anytime. happy foldings.
my adress:
yakup oflar
vali orhan isin
ilkogretim okulu
30000 hakkari
TURKEY

Hello,
I am a High School student in St. Paul, Minnesota. I have enjoyed origami for since my very first crane. I just discovered your site, and I am inspired by your project and your message of peace. I would love to participate and contribute, and even get my school and community involved. Is it as easy as "fold and send"? Can I educate others about the project and ask tehm to contribute origami figures to the cause? Once I have collected lots, to whom do I send them? I am sorry to learn that I just missed the USA-hosted Festival. Could I collect and send origami figures to the next festival host? Who would that be? And are there any requiremtns I should know about?
I am enthusiastic about contributing to your goals of world-wide art and peace. Please let me know what I can do to help!
-Ann

l really appreciate all your effort in the process of preaching peace to the world.more grease to your elbow."preach love to let peace be"

origami=art+education
thank you very much for organizing this nice project! Happy folding and a lot of success! Evi

Hello,
How are you? Sorry for my absent. Happy New Year. I would like to send you my model but it's not OK to post. But I'm trying this. I have the case. I'm producing & distribution Origami Paper in Myanmar as making the business for 1 year. Now the old woman said Origami is hers (Such as she published Origami Books and the folding guides in these books are hers. Anyone can copied. If the guides are the same, she sue the one who copied guides.). So I'm trying to produce better my all products about Origami and my labour was out. So I was busy. Now I have new labours and I'm preparing for Valentine Gifts, New Origami design. I would like to get the folding guide "Heart with the wings". So if you don't mind, pls let me know how to get this. Thank you very much.

peace be with you

the project is really a worthfull project. shall i join this project? if so please mail me the procedure for joining

hey ,

we all set to hold the OPT in India next year hope to see u all ...

happy folding .

regards kuldip

Cool site

I want to gratulate you on your great project! Keep going, and have faith!

Best wishes, Benoit

I am teach Spanish and Dance at Mountain English Spanish Academy in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. I am very interested in Origami. Please let me know what we can do!. Thanks, Nadine

Nadine Sanchez
Mountain English Spanish Academy
2300 E. 6th St.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86004

I am an art teacher from Romania, and I teach children Origami so.We are in Cluj- Napoca city. We want to take part to your festival in 2005 . What shall we do ?

I and our ecoflag team want to be part of the peace movement and we will love to take to all the parts of nigeria for awareness on peace,feel free to get in touch .Jude Ogulala -Nigeria

Great site I want to be part of this
I often use the closing
Peace to all mankind.
D*SII

Hola a todos, que bien que su arbol siga creciendo, yo tuve la gracia de encontrarme con él.

We love you passion for peace with the way you designed to approach it. Ours is on peace education. We are in partnership with you to be your representate in Nigeria. SEEK FOR PEACE AND PORSUE IT.

Dear Barbara,and Levashov family,
In name of ORIGAMI PERU, we wish to send you greetings for this wonderful event. It seems you have a very good participation, so success is guaranteed.
May Peace and Love Prevail on Earth.

primero felicitar a los organizadores de este evento,bueno me despido dando las gracias por todo.

Dear Sir/Madam
I would like to send you my new model"Pyit Taing Htaung", Myanmar Traditionl doll. But I have difficult to contact origamidesigns.com. Sorry for my late. Pls give me instruction to contact and send easily to there.

Cute site :)

I sincerly hope you can spread not only origami but true meaningof peace from your project. I wish you all the best along with prayers of peace.

Cheers,
Dzhev!

hey my chuch is making 1000 cranes and i want to know if we could send them to you f if you have a tree or something in japan. just a question

I LOVE THIS VERY PAGE, PLEASE KEEP ON THE GOOD WORK.

Hello Alex, my compliments for your nice website!
Please come see my website and photos sometime?
Best regards from Tom.

Congratulations for this great project.

Best regards,

Alexandre and Andréa

Of course I will participe on the peace tree. I will send my and others people origami!!

thanks!
bruno ferraz

hi, im an origami lover and i ve given course about origami in my faculty for two seasons when i was student there also i made an exhibition in my faculty. i love origami but i need more about it im just an ameteur. i would love to meet people who loves origami and i would like to get help from them.
thanks...
Sincerely

Hello Mr. Alex Levashov

Thanks for your mail. I strated my business on Jan-04. It is just a very small business. I'm introducing origami in Myanmar. I make the paper design or coloured by myself. My business name is "Young Star Fashion " Origami Paper Production. Selling Price of 20 Sheets is 400 kyats, equivalet to about 0.25 USD, 50 Sheets is 700 kyats, equivalent to about 0.5 USD. Is it cheap, or not? Thank you for your wish, and I'll try my best for origami. I'm trying to produce new origami design, it is our traditional toy. If I got it, I'll sent to you it. I want to participate in OP
T project but I still have little fund to celebrating. Whatever, I'll try. I'm glad to know you and Thanks for your idea and comments.
Wai Wai Thwin

Hello Mr.Alex Levashov
I've read your mail & sorry for late reply. In our country, Origami is not developing. I'm very intereste in Origami. And I make the color paper myself for my interest and folding these paper. So I got the idea to produce Origami paper. and I made the small business of origami paper production. I'm the first manufacturer of origami paper in Myanmar. so I faced many difficult such as paper choicing, origami book, and so on. I'm only 24 years old and I haven't got much money to produce mass production.
My cousin send me Origami book from Japan. In our country, these are so rare and expensive. so I visit your website and learn about Origami & thanks to your website and for your interest to me.
Would you mind guiding me about Origami and Paper.

Thanks,
Best wishes
Ms. Wai Wai Thwin

Hi to all nice peaceloving people : )
This is a great project!
Peace takes just one piece of paper...
Keep on moving!
What I Be

I'M VERY INTRESTED IN FOLDING ORIGAMI. YOUR WEBSITE IS VERY GOOD FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

I am writing on behalf of our Origami Group from India called "Origami Mitra".

We would like to, if we want to arrange the OPT Festival in India then what are the formalities and your requirements.

Pl. provide us some more information on the OPT festival so that we can discuss amongst our group and consider the proposal to arrange it maybe in 2005.

Regards

Hrushikesh
Pune, India

love the site

Invitation to participate in Origami Peace Tree project now placed on my home page (in Russian). Also You can find on it pages database of russian origami journal (two variant: rus and rus-eng).
Whole kinds!

Kindly enroll me as a member of your Peace Tree Project if you have a Membership. I have a passion for the art of Origami since my young days. As a Middle School teacher in Bombay and Tehran, both pupils and I enjoyed the art in the classroom. 'Conduct'informal
workshops with all sorts and sizes of groups, from student teachers to children from low-socio economic strata.
Memorable workshops in Santiago, Chile (OMEP 2001) and school children in the only school in Easter Island!
Shortly to open the Children's Origami Centre - 8 to 80!
Wish to participate in your Peace Tree Project. Tell us how.
Many thanks for your beautiful site! Sophie.
CREATIVE EDUCATION & RESOURCE CENTRE
3, CONCORDE APTS., BULLOCK RD.,
BANDSTAND. BANDRA (W).
MUMBAI 400 050 (Bombay)
INDIA

I wish you all the best for your project.

Kazuko Koyama
Staff, Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace(HIP)

We hope you will have a successful festival.

Sincerely yours,

Hinako Yamazaki

Hiroshima Peace Institute
Hiroshima City University

Hi all I have a good news.
Today I prepare the exhibition April 12~18. Tomorrow I finish preparind and Monday, people will see our great origami models.
I'll picture them and upload on the line.
Give me good luck please!

Because we changed our Guestbook, the dates for all past messages have the wrong dates.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

It is a joy to find your website. I was reseaching Jonathan Baxter when I found your site. After recieving the disturbing news about him not being able to return to America, I was able to smile again knowing that Origami lost a little but still has allot.
Keep your work going,
You will make a difference.

Dear the Levashov,

It is so good to know that you all are working very hard for the Art and Peace in the future.

Through folding the paper, Origami is expected and accepted by the people in the world to grow into a new figurative art.

The figures formed by following precise folding lines (expressing both living creatures in the nature and mental images in variety of realistic and abstractive forms) have made it possible for Origami rise to be the Art recognized.

Many people impressed and moved by the genuine works of Origami which are bases of the contemporary Origami, and which will be valued more as classics in the future, gathered together to organize the groups and associations in the various countries. Through these groups, I have spread the beauty and joy of Origami into the hearts of people in the world.


Sincerely yours,
Akira Yoshizawa
International Origami Society

This project certainly sounds exciting.
Promoting world peace through the use of art, particularly Origami, is an excellent idea.
I wish you every success in your endeavours.

Sincerely,

Catherine J.Rankin
Director
Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch
Ministry of Education,
Ontario, Canada

Hi. my name is Ahn jimin(¾ÈÁö¹Î)
I'm living korea.
And I'm a girl. ^ - ^
Oh. do you know 2002 soccer world cup?
It is korea's holding.
but idon't soccer. I like Origami.
origami is fun. very very fun.
- I LOVE YOU-

Beautiful project
I'll be sending something soon.
Carlos

I think this project is great for give children to participate something that releated to world peace. I already recommanded this project to student of my class(at elementary school in seoul)and will recommand again next year. good luck to the future of this great happy project!!

Your website is great, I want to participate now! The program sounds good, I hope your next project is just as succsessful!

On behalf of the Global Fund for Women, I thank you for sharing your valuable work with us. It was a privilege to learn about the Origami Peace
Tree, and we wish you every success in your endeavors.

Sincerely,

Annie Hillar
Program Officer

Your eagerness towards World Peace & Origami will help this World to be Peaceful.
Mandar
Origami Fans Club Of India, Kolhapur.

Hello! I just wanted to say that I am very happy to be able to be part in this project.
It was a great honour for me to design the webpage of the project.
I wish you good luck with your project in the future.

I am a Filipina and have stayed in Jpan for six years a few years ago. I have folded more than a thousand cranes and it would be nice if i can fold a thousand origami butterflies. I plan to make a collage of one thousand cranes and have it framed. Now I am thinking of the doing the same thing for the butterflies. I would to like to have more information regarding your project. Please include me in your mailing list if you have one. I'll be glad to send you some pictures of my creations in the future. Domo arigato gozaimasu. Maraming Salamat. MABUHAY and greetings from the PHILIPPINES

O ha yô go za i ma su everyone!
I am very pleased to here about this peace project. I can only pray that this is a way to bridge the gap between so many different cultures and to come to terms that we are all one.

Hallo,
ich bin total begeistert und mich interessiert mich sehr, daran teilzunehmen an diesem so wunderbaren Projekt:der Friedensbaum. Ich falte seit einigen Jahren und habe ganz viel Freude mit diesem so wunderschönen Hobby: der jap. Papierfaltkunst.

Herzliche Faltgrüsse
Ruth Eisenmenger

Your project Origami 2004 (Korea/USA) is an excellent initiative that ties in with UNESCO's programme on creativity and arts
education.

I am sending a copy of your message and of my reply to Ms Basma Irsheid, Programme Specialist in the Honorary and Goodwill Ambassadors Unit and to the UNESCO Representative in Moscow.

Kind regards,

Loreto Vargas (Ms)
Division of Arts and Cultural Enterprise
Sector for Culture

Dear Mr. Levashov,

The Embassy of Japan is thanking you and your family for the interest in the art of Origami.
We wish to all of you a great success for festivals of the World Origami Peace Tree Garden project in Korea and in USA in 2004.

We wish you the further development of the Origami Peace Tree movement.

Sincerely yours,
The Department of information
The Embassy of Japan
Russia

I'm glad to open the 2004 OPT project. I believe it will
become a good rememberance to us. I'll do my best.
And how about 'The Paradise for the Children'?
Is it suitable? (It's my idea ^^)
Many children in Korea like to play 'papa-mama role play'
so I prepare origami things such as TV, frying pan,
table, electronic fan, book, doll, ect.
Oh, they also love to fold animals and flowers.
Maybe your children are the same. ^^
Please leave your idea in this Guestbook or e-mail to me.

I posted in Nov of 2002, & am returning today in complete support of this project. Thank You keeping me on your email/updates list. Origami Designs would very much like to host & organizie a Peace Tree Project in the US in 2005. Reading the questbook entries, is moving & inspiring. Sharing origami to promote peace in our world is a gift to the world. Thank you, and peace to you and those who participate in upcoming peace tree projects.

Your project is very interesting. "Origami Olympic Games" is a great idea.
Best regards
Frantisek Grebenicek
(the Czech Origami Society)

I think your idea is very interesting !

I am interested in this project. It sounds wonderful. ....Dorothy Kaplan

Hi. Nice to meet you all. I love Origmi for years. This project seems very nicely, because people all over the world are having the same thought, we are all friends in Origami. Crane has the same shape regardless of whoever folded it. Isn't it?

Hi!!!!

My name is Maxine N. Dickerson and I was surfing the internet and saw
your info, I am a self-taught origamist and would love to donate some of my
art work to the Peace Tree.
I would love to become a part
of the Peace tree,

I sent 1000 cranes to New York City Mayor in memory of WTC Attack,
Also I have taught children and adults how to make hearts and cranes and frogs , I love this lovely art that God has blessed me with,

God bless you all!!

Some of the work featured on your Web site is truly remarkable.You must be proud of your accomplishments in this regard of the worldwide support by various countries for your project.

hello,i am so new this art but i hope you help me to improve at origami

This is a grat project.
I would like to know how can
we participate, in order to
do an integrated unit with
schools and institutions
children. Thanks

Hi, I am an elementary school teacher in Southern California.
I am doing an integrated unit using origami as a medium to facilitate core curriculum.
I'd like to know if this project is ongoing and if so, how we can participate.

Thank you very much,

Josh, Santa Barbara, CA

Your project was and is beautiful !

Design in Origami
Nicolas Terry

Mr.Aleksandr Levashov,
a member of CEA IN 2001-2002

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2003 CEA-WHITWORTH AWARD FOR EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH


Each year the Canadian Education Association (CEA)
honours a person or team who has made a noteworthy contribution to
educational research in our country.
Through this award, the CEA celebrates the important
contribution of research in increasing our knowledge and understanding of
Canadian education.


I invite you to nominate a candidate for the2003
CEA-Whitworth Award for Educational Research. Information on thenomination procedure
and criteriais available the CEA Web site. Please ensure that the
required information for each nomination is provided (see item III).


All nomination forms and supporting documentation should
be returned to the CEA office byApril 30, 2003. A sub-committee of
the CEA Research Steering Committee has been appointed to review all
nominations and make the final decision.


Penny MiltonChief Executive Officer

Dear Larissa, Aleksandr and Anastasia Levashov:

I am a Cadette Girl Scout in the USA. I live in Fontana, California. We are
located north of San Bernardino County. My troop is always looking for great
activities to do. I read about your Origami Peace Tree Project and we would
like to participate. To earn one of my interest patches I had to teach my
fellow Girl Scouts what Origami was and we made some designs. Alex Barber's
Origami Site was very helpful and taught me many new designs. It is here that
I read about your project. Please send me information on how we can
contribute to your 2003 or 2004 Origami Peace Tree Project.
Thank You
Ashley Stanfield

Fantastic project. Peace is worth working for. Keep it up

I really like the project. Good luck! Peace!

Congratulations for your initiative. Good luck with the project...
Toutes mes felicitations pour votre excellente initiative. Bonne continuite ...

Dear Respectful members of the Origami Community,

my name is Shingo Annen (Shing02), a Japanese artist residing in Oakland, CA.

Here is a link to my project, Operation Peace Crane, a new movement to
spread the camouflage origami crane.
I believe it is a cool way to promote peace, visually and creatively.
Please spread the word, any support would be much appreciated!
I would be happy to contribute resources as well.

One for the Cause.

peace, shing02

I have been folding paper for more than 30 years and I never thought that origami could be used in such a wonderful and thoughtful way. May I wish you sucess in your quest.

Love and peace to you all

Alex Levashov !

On the 19th of February, 2003 ......

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY OUR ALEX !.....

We’d like to wish you to be healthy and wealthy !
We wish success for your baby, your “ The Origami Peace Tree Project” !
A lot of people have already said it’s a great idea, the above project.

We love you !
Yours Larissa, Stassy, Malish

Dear Friends,
What a wonderful project! It is delightful to know that you have accomplished so much and brought friends together from all over the world. Please let me know of the next exhibition and I will ask students at the middle school where I teach to make origami for you. I will teach them how to make the figures that I have learned.

The best of good fortune in bringing even more participation!

An interesting project and I wish you all the very best with future endeavours. I came to the page by doing a search on my family name and found a namesake among your members. If possible I would be interested in communicating with that person via email. I would also like information on the tree for next year. Thanks and all the best.

This is a great site, and more it is a wonderful project! I am sorry I missed the 2002 tree but I wish to know how to participate in future projects.? I will put at link to this site on my site and encourage all to learn about your peace endeavors! Thank you again for this love and use of origami toward a peaceful effort for our world.

To be grateful to you for to allow me to take part in your origami project. Thanks for send me a diploma I'm very impressed and grateful! If you need colaboration again... Count with my hands. An admirer and friend Alexander Rodriguez

Dear Ms. Larissa, Mr. Aleksandr and Ms. Anastasia Levashov, Thank you for the Diploma! and the photos of the Project! I'm happy to participate in this project! I hope that I can participate in your next project. We all love peace! Thanks for making this project! Lots of love, Irene Fung

Greetings from Golden Key International Honour Society. I wish I had known about this sooner, so we could have gotten involved in this great project. Our organization at California State University, Los Angeles is one of 300 chapters worldwide and is dedicated to rewarding academic and personal excellence in college students as well as promoting altruistic conduct from the campus to international levels. Please email us and let us know when a similar project will be undertaken to raise awareness and promote peace in the world. The best of wishes to all participants and the creators of the Origami Peace Project.

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA, PALAIS DES NATIONS, EXHIBITS COMMITTEE..... Nul doute que cet art Origami constitue un enrichissement culturel tres remarquable. Je vous souhaite beaucoup de succes.... Le President Pierre Pelou

Dear Larissa, Alex and Anastasia.Many thanks for your scertificate and brochure. I hope that your new international project will promote frienship, understanding and Peace between people of all countries. I wish you lots of success. With love from Astrid

Dear Levashovs
Civil Society International has included the Origami Center in our listing of NGOs in western Russia. Please take a look at the webpage we have posted for you and contact us if you would like CSI to update any information.
Thank You
Autumn Lerner
CIVIL SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL
2929 NE Blakeley St.
Seattle, WA 98105
Tel: (206) 523-4755
Fax: (206) 523-1974

Dear Mr.A.Levashov,
Good Luck with your project !
Yours sincerely

Estelle Nadau
Service de la communication
The Louvre, Paris, France

I PRAY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR ORIGAMI CENTER. AKIRA YOSHIZAWA

Of our biggest considerations and congratulations to the ¡°Origami Center of Novorossiysk ¡° for this project, foundation in the ¡°Promotion of The Peace in the Whole World", by means of this art-science we can diffuse the Origami. "Henchiai - Origami¡± at the moment this working in the Diffusion and Promotion for oral means, writings and means television TV, showing the wealth that takes gets since in the Origami it is fruit of an open culture for everybody, at the moment it is a guided science but in the pedagogic, psychological, mathematical, architectural study, etc. since you had demonstrated that the Origami helps to stimulate the mental development, the children's fine motricidad, rheumatic problems in the hands of the old men in if it is wide the development of the Origami informing of these advances and others in the application of this art-science; as well as they have been carried out teaching volunteer¡¯s from the Origami to nurseries, schools, old men groups, in a general vision and importance to our people. The Group ¡°Henchiai - Origami¡± of South America's La Paz Bolivia, this very pleased in being able to participate in the development of this project with an end and objective of guiding the art of the Origami by means of the diffusion and promotion, we show the wealth of our town, our ecology for it a symbolism of peace among beings of this world where we don't care race, color of our skin, nationality, where we all are siblings and against any war against the humanity and to the ecological nature, hurting the roots of our planet Earth. Origami, Our motto: The world was made to create life, The human being has to create things for the world. We are sending 4 models of Origami according to the Project, The names of the participants that are who have designed and folding these figures make it with all the love for this art and the peace in this world in that we live: ¡€ Henrry N. Delgado A. (Design and Folding ) ¡€ Juan Manuel Lima Rivas (Design and Folding ) ¡€ Fabian Palacios (Design and Folding ) ¡€ Franz Palacios (Design and Folding ) It is a pleasure the power to share with all you and with the world by means of this connection Art-Science of the Origami to know the ecological nature, cultural of our Bolivian town, without but that to tell him says goodbye of you their sure friends and servants, hoping to have a contact presently and future. Sincerely, Henrry N. Delgado A. Juan Manuel Lima R.- President Juan Lima R.Manuel - Vice-president Origami, The world was made to create life, The human being has to create useful things for the world. (Henchiai)

EMBASSY OF JAPAN IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

I am wishing you success and prosperity in your creative International Origami Peace Tree Project.

Best wishes,
K.Ide
Attache, Culture and Information Department

UNITED NATIONS office at GENEVA
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE
This project, which includes people from many different countries, represents a very prestigious effort in spreading the message of Peace through the practice of Origami. We therefore regret to inform you that the calendar of cultural activities for the year 2002 does not leave many possibilities to house your exhibition. The cultural activities are all organized with the direct cooperation and under the patronage of the Permanent Missions to the United Nations office at Geneva. Let us thank you again for your initiative to enlarge the score of activities at the Palais des Nations and we wish you and all participants of the International Art Project "Origami Peace Tree" all the best for future exhibitions.
With my best regards

Anneleen de Jong
Cultural Activities co-ordinator

IT'S A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE TO MEET MR. ALEKSANDR LEVASHOV, THE LEADER OFINTERNATION ART PROJRECT "ORIGAMI PEACE TREE". HE IS A GOOD MAN WITH WARM-HEART. FROM HIM, I KNOW WHAT'S ORIGAMI; FROM HIM, I KNOW SO MUCH PEOPLE LIKE IT ALTHOUGH THAY ARE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRY AND HAVE DIFFERENT CULTURE BACK-GROUND. I THINK MAYBE I AM THE FIRST CHINESE COME THIS WEB-SITE. I WILL INTRODUCE IT TO MY FRIENDS AND I WISH THAT I CAN DO SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS GREAT PROJECT STAND FOR CHINESE. PEACE AND LOVE IS OUR COMMON WILLING. WISH THE PROJECT OF ORIGAMI PEACE TREE CAN MAKE SUCCESS, WISH IT CAN BRING PEACE AND LOVE TO OUR PLANET.

Dear Larissa Levashova we belong to the origamirio group-rio de janeiro /brasil. in order to participate of the origami.peace tree project 3 we hope this models will be,accepted and exibited in the event. [five models] sincerely milton bogossian

HOLA UN SALUDO AL PROYECTO DE LA PAZ Y ECOLOGIA. ESTAMOS CON USTEDES ANTE ESTE PROYECTO DE DIFUSDION Y PROMOCION DEL ORIGAMI. ES EL MEDIO DE PODER UNIR EL MUNDO ENTERO EN LA PAZ Y LA ECOLOGIA, DEMOSTRANDO ANTE ESTE HECHO DE SIGNIFIXCANCIA PROFUNDA CON EL ARTE-CIENCIA ORIGAMI. GRACIAS..... HENRRY-_- LA PAZ-BOLIVIA 2001.2.23 HENCHIAI-ORIGAMI ASOBORI

We'll send our models for sure, it's a great global idea because in that tree all the countries will be just one, Best wishes to all the paperfolders.

Hi I am working on a project for school about origami.I hope your Peace Tree works out.

Hello Alex, It was a surprise visiting your homepage. I remembered the dragon you made for me on my birthday. I am very impressed with your project and wish you and your family success in this endeavour. Jimmy

I LOVE your project it is so cool. Good Luck. Wishing you alot of health and alot of wealth. Happy Folding. P.S.Art + Education = Origami- A true fact.

I loved the idea of exposing my work! This is the first time I'm going to do that! You can count on me, I'm making an OA card to send you... That's gonna be GREAT!!

Wonderful idea especially considering the current situation in Afganistan. Peace to all.

Project-3 Wildlife Park -- Greetings from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I wish you much success on your Peace Tree project. What a wonderful way to bring the world together! Models are on the way, I hope you are pleased with my contribution. Love and Peace.

I like to creat things with ogigami and it helps when i helped a girlscout troop out and taught them how to create a jumping frog and a cran. It was neat to see how much they had leanred from it. They keep asking me for more diagrams but i have just about ran out:(. on the basics that is:) Well You have a good thing goin on here and i would not be right if i was not to help out in anyway possible. ... please email me anything u would want help on... webpage some info about things i dunno what ever:) l8r

"ORIGAMI = ART + EDUCATION"
40 years long for my educational experiences of art education in the primary teacher institute in Korea, also I taught to hold of paper, cutting, cut out, bending, scoring, stripping, three dimensional construction for construction, construction by paper, city plan, parks, children play ground and so many types of expression. Origami as paper folding developed through the ages but really means of art education as creativity's for children to old, in art education have to express by peoples who hope acting most origami nearly same way. As an art education in each school must to learn more wide creative activities by as an artist too. On this occasion we must define the new way of paper work not only origami. Origami means most useful situation student who want to know folding paper. But they were usually influenced by expert one by one fold like same ways. CHAI WOO RO- Creator and the Paper Sculpture Emeritus Professor; Inchon National University of Education, Inchon, Korea. World Councilor of the International Society for Education through Art

ORIGAMI=ART + EDUCATION
We are having so many problems trying to get the students attention to learn Math . I discovered that they can learn easily about geometry from folding a square of paper. I teach this class Math&Origami to all the students in the school with two more teachers. Those students are from 1º grade to 9º grade. We make models depends on the abilities of the students but with the youngest we make them fold and write the word "diagonal", we ask them about how many part of the whole did they get after one or more folds, this way they "see" how to divide the whole part in equals smaller. We talk about sides, angles, vertex and they make different images glueying different shaped pieces, then they count them and talk to their pals about that. One of the biggest problems these children have is that they do not know how to express their selves, they are not estimulated by their parents to talk or tell what do they feel or what did they have done, they only answer with one or two words at anything you can ask them. We have seen since last year that we had started with this project that they tell their friends what they did and they use the correct words while telling them. So we are very happy listening that they talk with a math language when they have to show how to do the models they have learn. It is really amazing listen such vocabulary on those kids that may be they do not know how to tell a story after her teacher has told them. I think, because they are using both, their hands and mind to learn, it is easy for them to rememeber the correct word. We are very stricts not letting them to use words such "go here" or do fold this like this" (while doing the foldings and pointing with their fingers). They have to say what it what they are doing, folding through the diagonal or the medias bases of the rectangles, aquares, etc. Even the youngers are learning to call the things by their names. This has improved their vocabulary a lot and is helping other areas of knowledge. Also we are stimulating their imagination by asking what is what they did. They talk about rotations, WOW! I could talk for ever about them and what we can do by using origami in our classes, besides they love it and they never get tired, they always ask for a new one, so we keep them at their sits very eager to listen to us and this believe me, it is a great conquer! With the older ones they made contest about who can fold that box or that one, on the exhibiton we had last year, because it was on December they made many boxes from Alexandra Dirk book with fanzy papers and Christmas colors and they sold them to the visitors. The other people who was also displaying their students works were asking my students how to do it, and this was a great satisfaction for them, just think a student from "our School" was teaching how to make a box to a teacher from other schools. They were very happy with theirselves, that is the best part of every thing. I also give the 8º and 9º grades kids OA to make and we can talk about symetry, they have fun and never forget what they did. It is a lot of work though to make the work sheets for all of them. Our students stay at school 8 hours per day. They have breakfast, lunch and tea everyday. We have to be very creative to not have entertained the whole day.
I am in love with my teaching.
Hugs, Marivi.

I've been teaching art to children and adults for about 18 years, origami since 2 years now, in schools and other educational buildings, although I'm not a professional teacher but a graphic designer. The big advantages of origami are: it can be done by everybody, even handicapped persons, old and young, rich and poor. It connects folders all over the world, who can have fun and communicate through origami without even knowing a foreign language, it can function as some kind of social bond, within the family, between friends and across the border. I like the fact, that it helps developing creativity and fantasy and that you can add part of your own personality to the model, no matter if you are folding foreign models or creating own ones. It also helps kids thinking in 3 dimensional terms. Their hands and the table are remaining clean, while folding. The process of producing something is in one hand from the start until the end, which is important nowadays especially for people, who are living in highly industrialized countries. It is cheap and can be afforded by everybody, it can be done everywhere and it is easy to teach. Another interesting point is, that it can be used in therapy with good results. Kids and adults seem to love the action models and the ones, which give you an "aha" effect or are usefull in some way or the other for wearing as jewelry or playing. In my last kids group I realized, that especially the boys from age 6 to 9 rather seemed to be touched by airplanes, which they like to throw in a competition, than by folding flowers or animals. The girls loved folding airplanes, animals and flowers, none of the kids liked folding hearts. You can talk and relax, or being positively tensed while folding. You can stop any time in between and concentrate on something else, but origami also helps teaching kids to concentrate on something. Folding origami can take a long time, but also some seconds. It never gets boring, since there is so much variety. Origami can be repeated over and over again, in case you didn't understand it the first time, until you got it, or try to find an own solution. Some kids did this at home and proudly showed their results to me the next day. The kids are becoming more self confident, the more they fold and create. Their products become important and valuable, when you treat them with respect. You can work on big projects together with other folders using modules for example, or create a scene, or fold something all alone for yourself to take home. You can give presents to friends, which are inexpensive, yet beautiful and worth keeping in the show case. You can also produce your own handmade paper, which really means, creating something from the very start. All your senses are active when folding, you feel, see, hear the paper, maybe even smell it. Origami is also fascinating for mathematicians. Origami is just great!

origami=art+education
thank you very much for organizing this nice project! Happy folding and a lot of success! Evi

ORIGAMI = ART + EDUCATION
I had ventured to teach this art during summer to children's and I am exploring the possibilities of taking this much more forward. I personally feel if the Indian children's are given opportunity to exhibit their work in some international seminar, have some local competition and award prizes this art would become much more popular. I would also like to know what are the efforts in other country to promote this art. Looking forward to more news and interaction.

the project is a great idea.pl convey my regards & respect to the great master- yoshijwa. i would love to be a part of this project. i enjoy doing origami & also teaching origami. i would love to hear from other origami practitioners.

This is a really great idea. I wish I knew about it months ago so I could have promoted the cause on the Creativity Portal. If you plan on doing this next year, please let us know. You can count us in! CP

Origami = Art + Education My grade 2 class would love to participate also. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute.

My Grade Three class would love to participate in your project. We will start folding something special on Monday.

ORIGAMI = ART + EDUCATION I have been folding ever since my parents got me interested in origami when I was eight. Origami developed my manual skills. My favorite type of origami models are animals. At school I have taught my class how to fold a traditional crane. I think I will always enjoy origami. At present time I help my parents with our international project and I like it very much. Happy folding !

Fold paper by the Peace in the world is a great idea! Paulo, Pedro (my sons) and me will be part of this project. I teach origami for children and other teachers, and it's an excellent education resource. Pedro began early. He's 8 and presented his work in the school library. Origami make us be near to each other. I like it very much!!

this roject soundsvery exciting. i will be sure to send you a model for the tree. thanks for your effort and initiative. cheers.

Excellant projects... shall difinately send some model.

thanks for invitate the origami, very very nice. LUIS

With great pleasure I participated in your first project. Within a short time I will send a model for the second exhibition. Probable some of the members of my origamigroup will send a model as well.So your tree is growing! Best regards to all.

I love origami and I really like this site. I would like to know: if there is anything I can do to help????

Hello from Canada. Thank you for the invitation to participate in your wonderful project. Look for a package from Canada to arrive there soon. :)

Wonderful idea! I often make presentations utilizing origami - to students, young and old. Looking forward to being involved with your projects in the future. Peace from The Lone Star State!

Great idea. I will try to get my origami club, Origami Kingston, to send models.

Hi, I have just send some origami for this worthwhile project and I hope that you can receive it before 5th. November. I am sorry as I was involved in other projects and I did not realise that the original dateline for this project which was 15th November 2000 has been brought forward to an earlier date. Nevertheless, I think the origami should reach you in time for this project. Peace and harmony through Origami. Francis Ow

Congratulations for that great initiative. It's nice to see that the people in Novorossiysk-my favourite russian town- do great things. Thanks

What a great idea--good luck with the project!!

What a wonderful site. Excellent Idea! I will think of something to fold and send it asap. Good Luck Emma*

saluton origamiaj amikoj! very good project... mais je ne maîtrise pas l'anglais alors je le dis en esperanto: baldaux mi partoprenos al via project. Gratulon!....

Lovely Site!
Keep up the good work.
Regards from IOC.