Resource pack

Our unique resource pack includes an overview of the project, truce arts learning activities for young people, details about how to submit your own artwork and information about downloading and using free digital art software.

The pack also includes inspirational examples of contemporary artists exploring themes of conflict, peace and truce within their work throughout all kinds of mediums.

Download resource pack

Create Your Own Truce Animation

Artist Janette Parris gives you a step-by-step guide on how to create a computer animation. These include creating a storyboard, using a graphics tablet, and using the free digital animation software Pencil.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

TRUCE! Tableaux – a parlour game for schools and groups

Artist duo Grennan & Sperandio take you through a fun game to play with your students, classmates or friends, which results in a Truce artwork.

Step 1: Consider with your class a range of images of truce, such as the white flag, the clasped hands, the soldiers’ football match of the First Word War – see here.

Step 2: Think of an example of truce (e.g. emotional compromise or conflict resolution) in a favourite film, play or even TV series or soap opera that is meaningful to them.

Consider the differences between ‘truce’ and ‘resolution’ or ‘agreement’. Truce occurs when antagonists agree to suspend their antagonism for some reason, rather than resolve their differences completely. Hence, truces can be broken and hostilities resumed. The Olympic Truce came into being in order for nations to be able to compete in sports together, even when some of them were at war.

Step 3: Locate the film or other example and share it with the group. Play the short segment (no more that 3 mins) when the truce, as defined by them occurs. Discuss this and agree the exact moment (approx 5 seconds), which captures what the truce is, and what it looks like.

Step 4: Re-enact each scene that you’ve selected and document the moment as a digital photographic tableaux. The re-enactment should focus on recreating the still moment of truce as a still photograph, rather than the whole moving scene in which it is embedded.

Only use locations in or around your own community with which you are personally familiar and use your own clothes and props on hand at home or school.

Each person should choose the role they would like to play, whether actor, director, camera-person or take turns in different roles. If you have a larger group or if you have more time you could add more detail with students acting as sound and lighting engineers, location scouts, prop and costume designers, makeup artists, etc.

For a more detailed lesson plan download the Resource Pack from the link above.

Example Truce Artworks

Here is a selection of truce-inspired artworks by famous artists. Use these as inspiration for your own Truce project.

Events

There are many Truce-related events, exhibitions and websites that you can currently visit to find inspiration:

Peace One Day For Peace Day 21 September 2012, Peace One Day is calling for and working towards a day of ceasefire and non-violence - the Global Truce 2012 campaign. We hope that this will be the largest global reduction of violence ever recorded on one day – and the largest ever gathering of individuals in the name of peace.

Get Set for the Olympic Truce is a comprehensive learning resource to introduce the concept of the Olympic Truce to young people. It is designed to encourage them to debate and discuss how sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games can bring people together from different backgrounds, cultures and countries – Read More Here

Build The Truce, Imperial War Museum is a crosssite project, taking the idea of truce as a first step toward resolving conflict. It follows the progress and processes of conflict resolution through historic and contemporary case studies. Build the Truce activity focuses on skills development, new and digital media, and providing audiences with access to a range of perspectives. Read More Here

Film Nation Short is a film competition for young people aged 14–25 to make short films, telling their own stories in their own way. Films can be up to three minutes long, inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic values of Respect, Excellence, Friendship, Courage, Determination, Inspiration and Equality as well as the theme of truce – Read More Here

Bradford Peace Museum offers many resources relating to peace, nonviolence and conflict resolution – Read More Here

Lord Bates has recently finished his walk for Truce, in which he walked from Olympia Green to London in order to highlight the UN Resolution declaring the London 2012 Olympic Truce, and call for the UK government to take concrete initiatives in which member states are pressured to adhere to the Truce. Listen to what he has to say about Truce Arts in our video interview with him Walk for Truce