In light of recent events the closing date for the Omotenashi Project has been extended to May 28th, 2021. Thank you to all the schools who have participated so far and for your patience and understanding.
As in previous Olympic years we have invited schools to take part in an Olympic driven Truce Project.
For Tokyo 2021 we again invite schools across the world to take part in a new art project called the “Omotenashi” Schools Project. Project 2021
A couple of ideas were given thought but after much research the “Omotenashi” project seems the most fitting being in keeping with the Japanese culture and was a word relatively unknown before Christel Takigawa, the bid ambassador for the 2021 Games, used it in her Olympic bid address.
“Omotenashi” (sincere kindness) is a truly amazing word and has the power to help create a better and more peaceful world, one of the attributes of the Olympic Truce.
The word also has the power to cultivate public awareness of Japanese culture while promoting intercultural, international understanding and diversity.
It also embodies Japan’s spirit of mindful hospitality, in that very word, “Omotenashi” itself, supporting themes of Tokyo 2021.
Though this is not a word that is so easily defined. It means far more, a giving from the heart – the ‘selfless desire to take care of others’ without thought of anything in return. A respect, a love, excellence (showing respect without words), an attitude of humility, acceptance of one another, a shedding of the worldly self, being present in a state of calm, a really powerful way of being.
So for the purposes of this project, we believe we can experience “Omotenashi” in our lives anywhere in the world.
We would like students to spend some class time studying ideas of what “Omotenashi” could look like in their world, developing their understanding of this concept. How it appears in Japan, then look at how we replicate this in our own countries as I believe we do. We have given a couple of links to useful resources in the project guidelines.
We would like students to give us their experience of “Omotenashi” in art form for 2021, using this project as a way to serve peace, friendship, and understanding in the world, and in particular, to promote the Olympic Truce.
Once the designs/ drawings are submitted we will then create a digital quilt which will be posted across all our social media sites.
Please check out the detailed guidelines at Omotenashi Project Guidelines
We are now accepting art work.
Please send your submissions to internationalpeacequilt@gmail.com
As part of the House Sports Week, our Senior School students supported the Stride for Truce 2016 initiative on Thursday 16 June. The aim of this event was to mobilise young people all over the world for the promotion of the Olympic ideals of building a better and more peaceful world. 
Schools' International Peace Quilt 