The Committee of 100 for Tibet (C100) and the Dalai Lama Foundation (DLF) are excited to announce the Dalai Lama Portrait Project. Our intention is to stimulate, educate and inspire worldwide interest in the Dalai Lama’s vision of a better world by showcasing a variety of artists who will express and celebrate this message. The Portrait Project is intended to portray both the man and the profound values and beliefs that he personifies. Artists will be asked to consider the full life of the Dalai Lama, who represents so much to so many. Artists’ interpretations of the man who has become the moral leader for the entire world while maintaining his simplicity, his humor, and his compassion in the face of the greatest provocation, are destined to stimulate interest worldwide.

The project will begin with an invitation to approximately 50 well-respected artists, to create works that they feel will not just capture an essence of His Holiness but will inspire others to emulate his actions. Their art will be displayed in a series of exhibitions in cities throughout the world including San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Zurich, Tallinn, Prague, Moscow, Johannesburg, San Jose (Costa Rica), Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo. Artists, celebrities and C100/DLF members will attend the exhibitions. Local communities will be involved in the development of festivities surrounding the exhibitions.

Artists will have complete freedom to create and are not restricted as regards media or size, or regarding collaboration with others, etc. The original artwork is being donated to the C100 and DLF. One hundred percent of the net proceeds will go directly to the projects of these two organizations including collaborations with several other non-profit organizations involved in work related to the mission of this project. We intend to produce an exhibition catalog, book and DVD, that will feature each piece of art and include quotes from the Dalai Lama, the artists, and members of C100 and DLF. An auction of the original art will be held following the exhibitions and copies of the art will be available for sale.

The Dalai Lama Foundation is an international organization dedicated to ethics and peace and has been established by friends and students of His Holiness the Dalai Lama who wish to support his ideas and efforts for peace and the alleviation of human suffering. Please visit www.dalailamafound.org for more information about the foundation.

Further information about the Dalai Lama Portrait Project will be available on the C100 web site during the coming year.

19 February 2004

Report of Tibetan Conference, Switzerland, January 2004

28 January 2004

Successful Tibetan conference on "Shaping the Future of Tibet"

Fifty five Tibetans from 17 countries took part in a successful two-day conference about the future of Tibet, "Shaping the Future of Tibet - Self-Determination & Individual Activism", from January 23 to 25 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. The conference adopted a resolution that emphasized the importance of the Tibetan people's right to self-determination and also stressed the vision of a future Tibet based on peace, freedom and justice. The delegates left the conference with renewed spirits to work for the rights of the Tibetan people.

Delegates came from far as New Zealand, Australia, Canada, America, India, Nepal and various part of Europe including Russia. Most of the participants are key activist in their respective countries, some working with Tibetan communities and others with key Tibet support organizations.

This is the first international conference of its kind organized by Tibetans, and it shows the urgency and importance many Tibetans feel about the situation in Tibet today. The conference provided this unique group of long-time activists and leaders an opportunity to discuss many fundamental issues. The main documents, including the resolution and the action plan, which are in Tibetan will be made available soon.

All the participants at the conference expressed their special appreciation to the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe, which as the local co-host, and whose members voluntarily worked before and during the conference.

For further information and contact persons please visit the website of the conference at: www.tibetanyouth.org/futureoftibet

Tibetan Youth Association Europe, Switzerland
Committee of 100 for Tibet, US

14 November 2003

The Committee of 100 for Tibet endorses HeartTibet.org

The C100 endorses HeartTibet.org in its efforts to support campaigns, initiatives, projects and individual activism throughout the world that focus on the Tibetan people’s fundamental right to self-determination. The goal of HearTibet.org is to function as a resource center and repository of practical information and collateral that can be used by individuals and organizations throughout the world to amplify and reinforce the cause. The C100 has adopted the “Heart Tibet! Self-Determination for the Tibetan People” banner. For more information visit www.heartibet.org.

10 November 2003

Shaping the Future of Tibet

A Conference on Tibetan Self-Determination & Individual Activism

The Tibetan Youth Association of Europe and the Committee of 100 for Tibet are pleased to jointly convene and host a special two-day conference “Shaping the Future of Tibet - Tibetan Self-Determination and Individual Activism”, January 23-25, 2004, in Einsiedeln (near Zurich), Switzerland.

The aim of the conference is to find ways to further the right to self-determination of the Tibetan people and to establish it as a fundamental principle in our struggle for freedom. This principle, a people’s right to self-determination, appeals to basic human values and is an established international legal concept, cited by the United Nations General Assembly in 1965 when it called on China to respect the Tibetan people’s right to self-determination.

Recent efforts by individuals and organizations to apply these principles as a means to bring focus to the core issues concerning Tibet have been supported by endorsements and actions taken by the Tibetan organizations and Tibet Support Groups in Switzerland, the German speaking Tibet Support Groups, and by all the Tibetan community organizations in Canada and the United States including key Tibet Support Groups.

The conference will strive to find a common voice to address the fundamental issue about the future of the Tibetan people - without being caught in the various debates of Rangzen, autonomy and other strategies - and to use it to fully engage the world community including the Chinese.

The conference will also discuss the role of the Tibetan people in their striving for self-determination, the active role they need to play, and the importance of individual activism. We welcome all Tibetan activists and those involved in the work of community organizations, Tibet support groups, and other Tibetan institutions and organizations.

Sponsorships, donations, and volunteer help will be most welcome. Please contact us. Conference space is limited.

TYAE – C100 Conference
Tibetan Youth Association in Europe
Binzstrasse 15
CH-8045 Zürich Switzerland
E-mail: info@vtje.org

TYAE – C100 Conference
Committee of 100 for Tibet
P.O. Box 60612
Palo Alto, California 94306
USA
E-mail: info@c100tibet.org