Jane
Smith
Bernhardt


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January 20, 2010

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Love, Etty

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We Are Here
Love Transcends Death

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603.793.9789


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In 
Remembrance
 of the 60th Anniversary 
of the Bombing of Hiroshima
-
Read Jane's Words


Death and Resurrection



Read Jane's
Message
delivered to
9-11 Families
for Peaceful Tomorrows

on their 'Stonewalk'
from Boston to New York during the last
presidential elections

www.peacefultomorrows.org

 

Click for Info on This Global Humanitarian
Project









Photo By John Hession

Listen to Author Jane Bernhardt's
Interview September 20, 2009
on Planetary Spirit with Producer/Host Jeff Ferrannini

'Art, and the Conversion of the Heart'
Jane Smith Bernhardt - Artist  Information
 

Jane is a graduate of the Guild for Spiritual Guidance and has studied for
several years with multi-dimensional healer Greta Bro. She has recorded several volumes of messages from spiritual teachers in meditation. The latest published meditations are included in her book,
We Are Here: Love Never Dies
She has traveled extensively with her visual art exhibits and original solo dramatic performances. Finding in art a pathway to the heart and spirit, Bernhardt uses creativity as a vehicle for human transformation.


From Auschwitz to Hiroshima, from Russia to our inner cities, teacher, author, portraitist, and actor, Bernhardt’s art has taken her all over the world. 

A third generation portrait artist and seasoned actor of stage and television, graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, she poignantly combines her portrait skills and acting in projects such as
the Hibakusha Peace Project.




We are Here
Love Never Dies

A new book by  Jane Smith Bernhardt
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The Project is a multimedia tribute to the survivors of Hiroshima.  Using her art to change the world, Bernhardt has delivered lectures on art and social change, led workshops in art and drama for schools, and facilitated many retreats. 
 
" I seem to be trying to change the world through my art, in whatever form. Sometimes I am just trying to wake myself up ~ to tell myself the truth,
or give myself a gift... But often I am following a calling that gives me the strength to enter extraordinary places and find the heart. It can be a perilous journey: Auschwitz and Hiroshima have hearts wrapped in unbearable pain. Strangely, we need that pain to understand ourselves, and to love again. Art can be quite a magician in this alchemy. There is nothing I would  rather be doing than
what I am doing"
                                                                                                                                                          Jane

Jane's traveling visual art exhibits are:

'Faces of the Faceless'

Created during the Cold War, 'Faces' portrays Russian patriots and poets, to give a human face to the enemy.

'Faces of Resistance'

Portraits and poetry, focusing on personal resistance to injustice. (Plowshares prisoners, Sanctuary defendants, Salvadoran refugees)
 

'Dinner at St. Paul's'

Portraits of guests of an inner-city feeding ministry and their poems.

'The Hibakusha Peace Project'

A series of collage portraits of A-Bomb survivors, accompanied by their stories and poems.
  Jane's traveling visual art exhibits are:

Julia Ward Howe

Crusader for World Peace.

Encounters

Series of dramatic vignettes based on New Testament encounters.

The Hibakusha Peace Project / Performance

Featuring music by Greta Bro / Peter Meyer and dance by Minori Ishikawa. 

Love Etty: the Journal of Etty Hillesum

 

Jane teaches and lectures on a variety of topics including spiritual guidance, portraiture, resistance and social transformation. Contact Jane for details.  

 

      Click Links to Performance Clips  

    Hibakusha Introduction

    Dream of the Survivors

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Woman Playing Koto Fuki Takata
 
Read some comments from ~
The Hibakusha Peace Project Guest Book

"Magnificent rendering of such horrible experience."
"Heartfelt Beauty and Tragedy"
"Heart-breaking - but all too real. Thank-you!"
"No words can explain the impact of this exhibit."
"All free people should see this!!"

Read more...



For their beautiful technical work on the Hibakusha Peace Project-
Jane wishes to thank:


Graphic Design/ Web Design
Mary Coburn - Web Master
MaryMack Graphics - Amesbury Ma
ury MA
                www.maryleemattison.com
or Graphics

Framing
Kent Kehs - The Hannah Shop - Beverly MA

Photography
Barry Kaplan -The Finer Image Photo Lab & Studio - Danvers MA
www.tfiphoto.com

Set Production
Gordon's of Beverly
www.gordonsofbeverly.com

 

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