CHES Butterfly Project Workshop

Join other CHES Families for The Butterfly Project at the LJCC (Levine Jewish Community Center).  We will meet at the Sam Lerner Center of Shalom Park to learn more about the Holocaust.  

In 2008, the Charlotte Jewish community committed to joining The Butterfly Project, which was co-founded in 2006 in San Diego, California, by educator Jan Landau and artist Cheryl Rattner Price. The Butterfly Project was developed as a call to action through education, the arts, and memorial making, which uses the lessons of the Holocaust to educate about the dangers of hatred and bigotry and cultivates empathy and social responsibility. Participants paint ceramic butterflies that are displayed as symbols of resilience and hope, with the goal of creating 1.5 million butterflies around the world—one for each child who perished during the Holocaust, and honoring the survivors. Since the inception of the project, tens of thousands of ceramic butterflies have been painted in Charlotte.

The CHES group has…