Archive for February 2009
Peace Pals International™ Art Exhibition Tour-Germany
February 16, 2009 Dagmar Berkenberg of The World Peace Prayer Society, Munich office held a presentation about the Peace Pals™ program, among the staff and guests of the International Congregation of the Holy Vincent of Paul. One hundred of the 2008 Peace Pals International Art Exhibition drawings and paintings are now displayed within the…
Read MorePeace Pole in Surfer’s Paradise –Australia
February 17, 2009 Mr. Yashio Mochizuki of The Goi Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan and wife Junko were invited to plant a 4-sided Peace Pole at the prominent Water Mark Hotel Spa & Resort in Surfer’s Paradise on Gold Coast, Australia. The Peace Message is displayed in English (on two sides), Aboriginal and fourth plate…
Read MorePeace Pole at the Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery-NY-USA
February 14, 2008 Beacon, NY – From January 7 – March 13, 2009, the Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery is currently hosting the international traveling exhibit, Freedom & Art, a collaborative effort involving fifty-one artists from over twenty countries and six continents. The exhibit falls under the umbrella of Mirca Art Group, an Internet-based coalition of…
Read More2008 Peace Pals™ International Art Exhibition Tour-USA
February 9, 2009 To the staff at The World Peace Sanctuary, I thought you might like to see the children of Housatonic Child Care in Salisbury, Connecticut enjoying the 2008 Peace Pals™ International Art Exhibition. The drawings from the young children are the inspiration from the Peace Pals Art Exhibit after our discussion of Friendship…
Read MoreWPPS News from Munich-Germany
February 6, 2008 WPPS Flags serve as colorful backdrop for the Munich Peace Conference held in the Old Town Hall in Munich, Germany.The conference was well attended by citizens, the major and keynote speakers, such as Mr. Jacob von Uexküll, who initiated the “Right Livelihood Award” many hears ago, currently known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.”Mini…
Read MoreWPPS Peace Representative News: Masayo Shibamoto-Japan
December 20, 2008 Forty Japanese members of The World Peace Prayer Society gathered at the Soken-ji, a Buddhist Temple located in Kyoto, Japan for a Peace Pole Dedication and a World Peace Prayer and Flag Ceremony. The World Peace Prayer and Flag Ceremony was held in the main room of this Temple and prayers for peace were offered to…
Read MoreUCLA students dedicate campus Peace Pole-California-USA
January 23, 2009 Showing solidarity in their commitment to peace within UCLA’s (University of California in Los Angeles) diverse campus community and throughout the world, UCLA students, along with Chancellor Gene Block, dedicated a “Peace Pole” at a campus ceremony at noon on Friday, Jan. 23rd. Students organized the dedication to show their collective support for…
Read MorePEACE POLE from fallen Tree-Canada
July 26, 2008 Greetings! When I arrived in Pierrefonds at our retreat house called l’Ermitage Sainte-Croix, I had a beautiful surprise waiting for me. There was a monument near the conference hall all covered up. Raymonde told me that this was the Peace Pole! I was quite excited indeed. The Peace Pole is a tree…
Read MoreWPPS Peace Representative News: Melvin Giles-USA
Summer-2008 I was looking at this photograph of last summer. It was taken at a community gathering in the neighborhood’s (Aurora/St. Anthony) Peace Sanctuary Garden in Michigan. The gathering was to highlight resident leadership in the community. The photograph includes the Executive Director of Aurora/St. Anthony Community Development Corporation, the Summit-University’s District Council Director, and community…
Read MorePeace Pole at Mt. Beacon Fine Art Gallery-Beacon, NY-USA
January 7th to March 13th, 2008 Eileen Tiernan of Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery, one of the many business owners who participated in the 2008 Peace Pals™ International Art Exhibition and Community Arts Week in Beacon, New York will host the work of over 50 artists from the Freedom and Art Project. On February 14th,…
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