21st International Day of Peace: Sowing Hope Cultivating Peace
Schedule
Sun Sep 22 2024 at 03:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Structures Brewing, 601 W. Holly St. | Bellingham, WA
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Whatcom Peace & Justice is celebrating the 21st annual International Day of Peace. Recognized by the United Nations since 1982 and the City of Bellingham since 2010, International Day of Peace is a day for all to envision what our world can look like without weapons, violence, and oppression.-THEME
“Sowing Hope, Cultivating Peace” aims to connect local and global struggles against militarized settler colonialism. The theme dialogues with the words from Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, whose work continuously encourages us to intentionally focus on growing hope in times of grief and despair.
In “A State of Siege” Darwish writes:
Here, where the hills slope before the sunset and the chasm of time
near gardens whose shades have been cast aside
we do what prisoners do
we do what the jobless do
we sow hope (trans. Ramsis Amun).
- PEACEMAKER AWARDS
The main stars of this years' event will be the acceptance speeches from Michelle and Michael Vendiola and Raven Ott, our Howard and Rosemary Harris Lifetime Peacemaker Award and Dotty Dale Youth Peacemaker Award, respectively.
Come honor these Indigenous, environmental and housing rights champions at International Day of Peace this year!
-FUN(D)RAISING EVENT
International Day of Peace is WPJC's main fundraising and educational event of the year, raising critical funds to support the ever more critical work of the Center in advocating for peace and against wars & militarized systemic violence at home and abroad.
With your help, this year we're hoping to to raise $15,000 in order to keep our doors open for new and old peace activists, while supporting our volunteers and our newly expanded staff team in their service. Space is limited, so please RSVP now a sliding scale donation to guarantee your spot. All gifts are tax-deductible! Please give as generously as you are able.
Access all details and donate at whatcompjc.org/idp2024
-ABOUT WHATCOM PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER:
Entering its 22nd year, the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center promotes lasting peace, social justice, and a culture of nonviolence at home and worldwide. We accomplish this through partnerships, education, and direct action. WPJC works as a community-hub and resource center for people of all ages and backgrounds in Whatcom County.
To learn more about our efforts contact Executive Director Aline Prata at (360) 734-0217, [email protected], or visit www.WhatcomPJC.org today!
- ACCESSIBILITY:
The venue is an outdoor-indoor wheelchair accessible space. Attendees are encouraged to wear masks, carpool and use public transportation. ASL interpretation will be provided.
Family-friendly event, free children activities, all are welcome and no one will be turned away from lack of funds.
Please email [email protected] for more info about sponsoring, volunteering or accessibility and don't forget to invite your friends and family!
- BIG THANKS TO OUR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE SPONSORS:
BAAY
Steele Financial Services
Village Books and Paper Dreams
Amnesty International Puget Sound
Bellingham Friends Meeting
Bellingham-Whatcom Peace, Justice, & Earthcare Vigil
Whatcom Human Rights Taskforce
First Congregational Church Bellingham
Structures Brewing
Camber Coffee
Brandywine Kitchen
Ambo
-POSTER ART BY ALISON O. BREMNER
Alison O. Bremner is a Tlingit artist born and raised in Southeast Alaska. She is believed to be the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. She has studied under master artists David R. Boxley and David A. Boxley in Kingston, Washington. Working across media, including painting, woodcarving, regalia, and digital collage, Bremner’s artistic practice brings together traditional formline with contemporary imagery, surrealism with humor, and fine art with a new lens, in order to reorganize hierarchies and offer visual representations that challenge boring, flat narratives.
In addition to her visual art, which is included in permanent collections at the Burke Museum and Frye Museum in Seattle, the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, the Château Musée Boulogne-sur-Mer in France, and the British Museum in London, she is also committed to the reclamation and revitalization of Tlingit language and cultural practice. She is inspired by ancient traditions and modern coffee.
Of the piece featured in this year’s poster for International Day of Peace, included here in a brand new color-way, Bremner says: “This piece is based on a painting called Bacchus by Caravaggio. Said to be the ‘most fainted in front of painting’—viewers get so overwhelmed that they faint—I thought that is something Raven the mythical trickster would deeply enjoy.”
You can follow her across the internet @CaffeinatedRaven and check out some of her work for sale at the Steinbrueck Gallery in Seattle, WA.
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Where is it happening?
Structures Brewing, 601 W. Holly St., 601 W Holly St, Bellingham, WA 98225-3920, United States,Bellingham, WashingtonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
