SAFE Candlelight Vigil for the Iraq Museum in Beirut, Lebanon (April 12, 2007)
Photo Credit: Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) Used with permission
For the fifth year running, SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone) is holding a candlelight vigil, calling for a global moment to remember the looting of the Iraq Museum in April 2003.
SAFE is a nonprofit organization based in New Jersey, dedicated to preserving cultural heritage world wide. Each year, members of SAFE schedule local vigils in places all over the world, to take place between April 10 and 12, to commemorate the destruction at the Iraqi Museum, and "to acknowledge that we are all responsible for the protection of our shared cultural heritage."
SAFE Candlelight Vigil in New York (April 11, 2007)
Photo Credit: Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) Used with permission
For information about the candlelight vigil, and for help in setting up a vigil in your own community, see the SAFE website. Photographs of events from last year in Beirut, London, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Baghdad, South Africa, San Francisco, Boston and other places around the world have been uploaded to SAFE's Flickr page.
- SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone
- Global Candlelight Vigil, April 10-12, 2008, includes details of the event
- SAFE Flickr page, with photos of past events
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