ARTISTS WAGE PEACE
About this Event
Celebratory dinner: Palestinian and Israeli chefs serving regional specialties
ARTISTS WAGE PEACE
ARTISTS WAGE PEACE brings creative souls together to spread love and end conflict. Featuring Jewish and Palestinian artists and peace builders. “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice” Martin Luther King
Agenda
🕑: 09:30 AM - 04:00 PM
June 12
Info: JUNE 12
MORNING
9:30-10 greeting, registering, welcome remarks Robin Pacific
10-10:15 Blessing: Father Nathan Humphrey, St. Thomas Anglican Church
10:15-11 Artist’s Talk: Roula Said
11 Singalong – Roula Said, Maryem Tollar, and Marching Disorder Band, “Let love occupy your heart, let love colonize your mind”. Lyrics by David Wall.
11:30-12 coffee
12-12:15 Gary Barwin, reading from The Comedian’s Book of the Dead
12:15-12:30 Ronna Bloom, reading poems from "In a Riptide"
12:30-1:30 Lunch
June 12
AFTERNOON
1:30 Blessing, Cantor Cheryl Wunch
1:45-2:15 Jeffrey Wilkinson and Samia Odeh musical performance
2:30-3 Lior Ben Zvi and Parents Circle/Family Forum, videos and talk
3-4 Maryem Tollar and friends – musical performance
🕑: 10:00 AM - 08:30 PM
June 13
Info: JUNE 13 MORNING
10 Blessing: Imama Farheen Khan, co-founder, Women’s Mosque of Canada
10:15-10:30 Honey Novick, Poems and Songs
10:30-10:45 Jon Allen, former Ambassador to Israel, founder of Rozana mobile health clinic in Gaza
(subject to travel plans)
10:45-12 Larry Nusbaum, Music Meditation for Peace
12:00-1:30 lunch
Bring your own or eat in the neighbourhoo
JUNE 13 AFTERNOON
1:45-2:45 Talk and breakout sessions, Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson, Authors of The Wall Between, How October 7 and Gaza Have Reshaped the Narrative
3-3:30 Roula Said and friends, Palestinian PoemSongs, musical performance
3:30-4 Closing remarks, Yafa Sakkejha, Canadian Peace and Depolarization Advocate
JUNE 13 EVENING
Celebratory dinner with Palestinian and Israeli chefs
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 0.00 to CAD 43.93
