PAST 2023 EVENT: NAVIGATING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS WORKSHOP

Thursday, September 21
12:00-1:00pm EST
Virtual

We have the potential to correct misunderstandings and heal divisions and conflicts that characterize far too many of our interactions and relationships and damage our shared democracy. In this workshop you will learn to hone your skills for engaging in — and facilitating—interactions and discussions to deepen your understanding of one another, especially “when things get tough.” Practice listening and staying present through difficult conversations. With a 20-year history in interfaith engagement, Interfaith Philadelphia offers invaluable guidance, practices, and wisdom that can be applied to a diverse array of dialogue-based encounters.

Registration Link: https://www.tfaforms.com/5077865

PAST 2023 Event: Peace Day Philly 2023 – Actions for Peace

Thursday, September 21
11:30am – 12:45pm

North Apron, City Hall

Please join us as we gather on the International Day of Peace!

Activities will include music, remarks on peace by local leaders on how they are building peace in Philly, one minute of silence for world peace, and sharing your action for peace. Tabling by community organizations, too.

Bring a friend and spread the word!

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PAST EVENT: Concerting Peace: An International Peace Day Event

Wednesday, September 21
4-7pm

2056 Ellsworth St, Philadelphia, PA 19146

Join BuildaBridge International & Peace Day Philly for an afternoon of music, art and dance making. The event will feature live performances; live painting and a Musical Instrument Petting Zoo by Keep Music Alive with guitars, ukuleles, keyboards and lots of different percussion instruments.

PAST EVENT: End Racism. Build Peace. Peace Day Philly 2022

Wednesday, September 21 (Peace Day)
11:20am – 12:30pm
North side of City Hall

Philadelphia will join with groups and organizations around the world to make this global day of local opportunity. The global Peace Day theme, set by the United Nations, is End Racism. Build Peace. Guests will speak to this theme and we will share in the global act of observing one minute of silence at 12 noon. Live music, poetry and artmaking will also be a part of this event.

Special speakers will include:
– Romana Lee-Akiyama, MSS, MLSP, Director – Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement
– Kia Ghee, Esq., Executive Director- Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations

Performers will include
– L’Tajh Carter – Poetry
– Marcy Francis and Jan Jeffries – Drumming
– Hugh Taft-Morales – guitar and singing

Artmaking: We welcome people to “Chalk 4 Peace” by sharing words and images of peace with sidewalk chalk. Creating peace buttons (thanks to Artwell) and mini murals (hanks to Mural Arts)


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PAST 2021 PROGRAM: WALKING WHILE BLACK: L.O.V.E. Is the Answer Film and Workshop

Tuesday, September 21
6:30 – 9:00pm (ET)

VIRTUAL

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Presenters: The Peace Center, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, and the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources (NAAAHR) – Greater Philadelphia Chapter

As minority communities face the daily prospect of racial profiling, and police officers face relentless scrutiny by an anxious public, tensions mount as lines are being drawn in the sand. These tensions can only be eased by finding common ground with each other. L.O.V.E. Is the Answer!

The Peace Center and the Bucks County District Attorney’s office, along with NAAAHR–Philadelphia, invite you to join with police officers and community members as we screen (on Zoom) the award-winning, 60-minute documentary film, WALKING WHILE BLACK: L.O.V.E. Is the Answer, a film by A.J. Ali, followed by small group discussions guided by The Peace Center’s trained facilitators.

For more information about NAAAHR-Philly visit:  https://www.naaahr.org/mpage/phillyHome

Offered By the Peace Center

PAST 2021 PROGRAM: Concerting Peace

Tuesday, September 21
3pm – 6pm
Concert Garden, 2056 Ellsworth St, Philadelphia, PA 19146 (Point Breeze)
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Come celebrate Peace Day with BuildaBridge International! BuildaBridge International will provide experiential art-making and live music from 3-6pm at the Concert Garden.

3:00pm: community Art-Making (visual arts and music)
4:00pm Live Movement Workshop with Sanovia Garrett
4:30pm:  Ali Richardson: Hip Hop, Jazz, Folk and more
5:00pm: Tali: Haitian Neo-folk
5:30pm: Interminable: Latin Alternative Fusion


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ARTIST BIOS
SANOVIA GARETT: An Energetic Storyteller that uses music and movement performances, Sanovia instigates an instinctual full-body expression that sparks her audience to infuse more authenticity and joy in their everyday lives. Sanovia leads first as a trauma-informed artist with a MA in Urban Studies (Community Arts) from Eastern University/BuildaBridge International. You can find her on youtube and instagram using her hashtag #catchmeinthelight.

TALI: Talie (Nathalie Cerin) is a Philly based singer-songwriter, born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her music, a unique blend of Haitian folk music and Soul, delivered through her alto vocals and acoustic guitar, bring a fresh sound to the Philly music scene. She recently released her sophomore project, Solèy Midi (midday sun), a collection of originals and traditional Haitian folk songs.

ALI RICHARDSON: Ali was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, and came to Philadelphia in 2002. Since then, he has shared his musical talents and teaching with thousands of students. From 2004-2012, Ali was co-founder and lead facilitator of the CODA Program, where he developed Hip Hop Jazz Musicology, and in collaboration with others, was able to share his vision through visiting school classrooms, summer camps, and workshops for young people as well as adults. Since then, Ali has continued to offer workshops independently and through the African American Museum, and most recently, as Vice President of Rappers and Rebbes (see “Projects and Partners” for more info!). Ali is a multi-instrumentalist. Although guitar is his “native instrument,” he also plays percussion, bass guitar, piano, and the dijeridoo!

INTERMINABLE – Interminable is a Philly-based Latin alternative fusion project rooted in diasporic connection. Using improvisation and original compositions in Spanish, funky bass lines and driving rock beats, they create spaces of musical conversation to shed light on the links that exist between our cultures.  Combining the traditions of son jarocho (from Mexico), jazz, rock, funk, classical and electronic musics, they bring together the Mexican jarana with the trumpet, the trombone with the drumset, to meet at the crossroads and create a futuristic, improvisatory vision free of the constraints of genre.

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PAST 2021 PROGRAM: The International Day of Peace in Philadelphia

Tuesday, September 21
11:30am -12:30pm

Rittenhouse Square, 18th and Walnut Streets
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – masks encouraged
No rain date

Please join us to mark the UN International Day of Peace. This year’s global theme: Recovering Better for an Equitable and Sustainable World.

Music (drumming and guitar) will begin at 11:30am, followed by the global minute of silence at noon and reflections of special guests:
– Erica Atwood, City of Philadelphia
– David Brown, Temple University

 

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