The Origami Peace Tree Project

The Origami Peace Tree Project - UNESCO-IFPC 2005 Winner (France, Paris)

Wow! What an Amazing World! - Global Junior Challenge 2007 Winner (Italy, Rome)

Dear Friends of the Planet Origami!

Welcome to the World Origami Peace Tree Garden project site!
OPT Garden

Origami is the beautiful art of paper folding available for everybody. Since it only takes a sheet of paper, this art can easily be enjoyed anywhere.

The International Art "World Origami Peace Tree Garden" project was created to give people a little bit of happiness in getting in touch with beauty by the Levashov family, Larisa, Alexander and Anastasia, in the year 2000 in Russia, the leaders of the

The project goals are to bring the art of Origami to as many people in the World as possible and to promote a peaceful and better world by educating youth and adult through art practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Philantropy spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and tolerance.

The Origami Peace Tree project Logo, symbolized by a crane as a symbol of Peace and a ship as a symbol of Friendship, is bringing together people's art works.

The creators of the OPT project, the International Art Partnership "Peace Tree" administration, organize in collaboration with their partners, the OPT festival hosts, International Origami festivals titled "Origami Peace Tree Festival" twice a year,
a spring and an autumn festival.

We invite people of all ages from all over the World to join the project that has no ethnic, religion or language barriers.

The International Art Partnership "Peace Tree" is a worldwide movement that works to promote peace, international friendship, art and education.

More information about the OPT Festivals can be found in the Project and History sector.

The IAP "Peace Tree" takes responsibility to

find any individuals or organizations interested to "grow" a Origami Peace Tree in their country together with the IAP leaders;
make an announcement all over the world about the next OPT Festival and invite people to take part in it,
give all recommendations and useful information to the country-host regarding the OPT Festival.

A country host's duties are to

keep all responsibilities for the OPT Festival,
receive the Origami models and register them,
hold the OPT Festival in a proper place,
prepare and send diplomas and booklets to all participants during a month after the festival,
send some information regarding the OPT Festival and the country-host, traditional arts and crafts to the IAP address for the Peace Tree Museum.
All Origami models as well as all expenses for the OPT Festival belong to the country host.
The OPT Festival title and some details will be discussed by the IAP administration and the country host.

If you are interested in the project idea and you or your organization/your country is ready to organize your country own Origami Peace Tree Festival please let us know at least a year before that.

Up to 3000 participants from 54 different countries have already taken part with their nice Origami models in the Peace Tree Festivals from 2000 until now.

The project participants live in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Argentina, Belarussia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam.

We would be grateful for spreading the news about the World Origami Peace Tree Garden project among all the people.

We'd like to ask all interested in the above project to publish a brief info about the OPT Festival in their media.

We sincerely hope the World Origami Peace Trees Garden Project will reach the hearts of those who love Peace and Art and people from around the world will support this peaceful initiative.

Sooner or later, we are sure, a lot of countries will grow their own Origami Peace Tree and there will be built the beautiful

on Earth created by all of us for the World Peace!

Please do not hesitate to call the IAP “Peace Tree” administration for the details.

We love Peace! We love Origami!

Larisa, Alexander and Anastasia Levashov