One Million Bones Santa Fe Installation April 27, 2012

One Million Bones is a social arts practice working to raise awareness of genocides occurring around the world today. One Million Bones hosts and/or facilitates age-appropriate educational workshops talking about the root causes of genocide, particularly intolerance, with youth, and current crises with older kids. We then support the participants in efforts to create a handmade bone out of some kind of art materials. We are collecting these bones, made by students around the country, and will lay 1,000,000 of them on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2013.

In the meantime, to raise awareness of the project, we are working on a campaign called, The Road to Washington. In honor of Genocide Awareness Month, One Million Bones staff has organized mini installations of bones in all fifty state capitals across the country. On April 28th, we are proposing to lay 2,500 clay bones in Santa Fe at the Roundhouse as part of this National Day of Awareness and Action.

The ceremony will begin at 10am on Saturday, April 28th. We will have volunteers help lay the bones at the Roundhouse. We will have a short program with an introduction of the project, a few speakers, and some music. The bones will be collected beginning at 3pm.

If you would like to get involved, contact Morgan Podraza at (215) 692-4018 or [email protected], or Travis Hanson at (575) 317-0382 or [email protected].

Official Website: http://www.onemillionbones.org/road-to-washington/