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LET’S MAKE THE WORLD A HAPPIER PLACE

Where is your happy place?

What does your happy place look like?

Who makes you happy?

What makes you smile from ear to ear?

Let’s do something, however small, against the scary, sad, horrible, angry and frustrating things around us by using art to make the world a happier place.

You may be familiar with the theory of the butterfly effect. It suggests that a butterfly flapping its wings in one place can create the tiny change that causes, modifies, or prevents a tornado in another place. Or have you heard of the concept that a smile can travel around the world? By smiling at one person, who ends up smiling at someone else, that person in turn smiles at…

You get the idea: something that might be a small gesture for you, may end up having a larger positive effect in the world – or may even prevent someone else’s negative action.

What do you think can make the world a happier place? Use your art to tell the world about it.