2008 Movement for Peace Event Schedule

 Thank you to everyone who participated in the success of this special event.  If you are interested in supporting this project as an annual event or would like to volunteer please contact Kathy at 828 215 2410.

This project is designed to inspire, inform and involve community while promoting 11 days of peace, leading up to the UN’s International Day of Peace on Sunday, September 21


Saturdays, August 16th through September 13th
Yoga for Peace
5 weeks of yoga from 9:30 – 11:00am at the French Broad Co-op Movement and Learning Center. Community is invited to participate in this series that focuses on finding peace.  Each week’s theme will be connected to a dance piece that will be featured in the culminating Movement for Peace performance (see below).   This all levels class will guide you through asana to inspire peace.  Please join us to inspire your peace practice.

Sunday,September 7th

LAAFF : Pieces of Peace Booth

Join us in creating a piece of peace in our interactive arts and information booth. Write your message, vision, prayers, blessings, and hopes for peace and fold them into origami cranes.  Some of the cranes will be used for an art installation by  Shelley Pereda for the Movement for Peace dance performance on September 21st. Visit our booth and learn more about the peace building organizations, support the movement for peace, and create your own piece of peace.

Thursday, September 11th  

Pritchard Park Noon Moment of Stillness: At the sound of the bell you are invited to join in 3 minutes of stillness and be present and still with the focus and intention: May we dwell in the perfect stillness of peace and may peace prevail on earth.  When the bell rings again you are invited to keep the intention as you move towards peace in each waking moment and interaction with the world. 

***Opening Event RAIN LOCATION: First Congregational Church of Christ 20 Oak St.  Downtown Asheville

11:30am-1:30pm Information is available about the Movement for Peace Project. Art activity: writing messages of peace on origami paper and the meditation of  folding the messages into cranes.

6:00 to 7:00pm: Opening to Peace
 Moving Women present an evening dance performance in the park with live music to mark the opening of 11 days of events focusing on peace.  Information about the Movement for Peace Project will be available.  There will be origami crane folding for the Movement for Peace art installation. City councilmember Robin Cape will read the International Day of  Peace proclamation.

Pritchard Park Noon Moment of Stillness: At the sound of the bell you are invited to join in 3 minutes of stillness and be present and still with the focus and intention: May we dwell in the perfect stillness of peace and may peace prevail on earth.  When the bell rings again you are invited to keep the intention as you move towards peace in each waking moment and interaction with the world.
11:30am-1:30pm Information available about the Movement for Peace Project. Art activity: the writing messages of peace on origami paper and the meditation of folding the messages into cranes.

September 15th through 19th

UNCA Health and Fitness Center Lobby
An informational booth available from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm featuring the peace building organizations in our community and information about the Movement for Peace Project.  Groups will be available during different time slots to answer questions and offer opportunities for community involvement.  For specific time schedule coming. 

Thursday, September 18th

Carol Belk Theatre at UNCA 12:30pm Theatre for Living, Interactive Drama presented by UNCA Theatre Students

Laurel Forum UNCA 3:30 to 5:30 pm Jerry Donoghue will be facilitating an experiential workshop to demonstrate the Compassionate Communication model (also known as Nonviolent Communication). Get ready to role up your sleeves and practice the model on a real-life conflicts. Spreading peace in the world begins with our daily life interactions!

You will experience how to:

• Transform judgment and criticism into understanding and connection
• Listen in a way where others are really heard
• Get what you want more often without using demands, guilt or shame
• Hear the needs behind whatever anyone does or says
• Move beyond power struggles to cooperation and trust
• Create a quality of connection that embodies unconditional love

For more workshop information visit www.ashevilleccc.com  

12:30pm Theatre for Living, Interactive Drama Presentation at Carol Belk Theatre at UNCA. Perfomance by UNCA theatre students. 251-6686

Friday, September 19th
Asheville Playback Theatre Be Be Theatre 8:00pm

Asheville Playback Theatre invites you to the opening of their 14th season of creativity honoring the community's real life stories through inprovisation, music, and movement.  Playback will collaborate with Moving Women and the Movement for Peace project in this performance.  Doors open at 7:30pm.  Show starts at 8:00pm.  $10 adults & $5 for students.  No one turned away for lack of funds.  For more information call 670-5881 or visit www.globalplayback.org 

Saturday, September 20th

**please note: there is no yoga for peace class today.

Walk for Peace 11:00-12:30pm

Sponsored by The Student Peace Alliance,  Join a  1  mile in honor of  HR808 U.S. Dept of Peace Legislation and International Day of Peace,  from downtown City-County Plaza and back again.  Contact Daniel Pinelli 505-0973 or peacemaker@ecosa.net. 

Sunday September 21st, The International Day of Peace

11:30- 12:30 Moving Meditation in a peace labyrinth at UNCA. Join the moving meditation through the labyrinth with a 3-minute pause at noon for the Moment of Stillness. Participants are invited to leave their messages of peace on the hope tree within the labyrinth and spend the afternoon in meditation.  May Peace Prevail on Earth.

6:45pm Movement for Peace Performance Opening with Song

Warren Wilson College Folk Choir

Dr. Milt Crotts, Director

7:00 pm Movement for Peace Performance, the first movement lies within you…

Walker Arts Center on The Asheville School Campus.  Moving Women creates original work in collaboration with local musicians. The original choreography will include the exploration of spirit, peace within one, two, family, community, and earth. Public Peaces explores movement within a group and involves community members in collaboration with Moving Women.  Partial proceeds from this concert will benefit local peace building organizations.

For tickets call: 828 215 2410