TEACHING PEACE FORUM AND CONCERT
| May 4, 2007 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Emma’s revolution, the D.C.-based folk duo of Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow, will perform in concert at the UU Church in Ellsworth on May 4 as part of an evening featuring teachers of peace from our local community.
Panelists will include Hugh Curran, professor in the Peace Studies program at the University of Maine, Anne Ferrara, Brooksville resident active in nonviolent communication work, Dud Hendrick, Veterans for Peace member and Peace Studies professor, Robert Shetterly, author and artist of the Americans Who Tell the Truth series, Sonia Turanski, producer of the weekly program Powerful Peace on WERU, and Patricia Wheeler, Deer Isle activist-artist. According to organizer Peter Robbins, “A drumbeat of media reportage suggests that we live in an irretrievably violent world. But the growing global movement toward peaceful conflict transformation and against militarism gives hope. Here, six area teachers of peace will share their practices.”
Emma’s revolution brings their uprising of truth, hope and a dash of healthy irreverence to concerts and peace and justice events across the U.S. (including Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan and the School of the Americas Watch at Fort Benning, Georgia). Pat’s “Keep on Moving Forward” opened the NGO Forum at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. They have performed by invitation at the World Culture Open in Seoul, Korea, and at the Scottish Parliament’s 2006 Festival of Politics.
The forum and concert were conceived to contribute toward an alternative awareness. Doors will open at 6 p.m., the forum beginning at 6:30. “Teaching Peace” is sponsored by Peninsula Peace & Justice of Blue Hill and the Reversing Falls Sanctuary of Brooksville; the suggested donation, $12. Contact: 326-4405.
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