Peace Week

Hiroshima 65th Anniversary Commemoration

pkeeble — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:47:42 +0000

August 9, 2010
10:40 am	to	11:30 am

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing
65th Anniversary Commemoration

Peace Gardens,
Manchester City Centre
9th August 2010, 10.40am - 11.30am

Email for more information.

PeaceWeek 2011 planning meeting

pkeeble — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:37:04 +0000

September 8, 2010
10:00 am	to	12:00 pm

The next PeaceWeek 2011 planning meeting will be on Wednesday September 8th. 10-12noon at the Powerhouse. Everyone welcome.

Guardian article on OSBA winner

pkeeble — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:50:57 +0000

The Guardian newspaper had a positive article on June 16 about 2010 OSBA winner Zara Fredericks. “The teenager who has gone from antisocial to outstanding behaviour”

Click here to read it.

Check out Wearpeace

pkeeble — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:34:44 +0000

Wearpeace is an exciting project as part of ‘Guns into Goods’, by the University of Salford in partnership with CARISMA and Greater Manchester Police and involving several schools and colleges. The aim is to create a range of clothing and accessories under the Wearpeace label that can be sold locally, nationally and internationally to promote the “save a life not take a life’ message. size-full wp-image-971 alignright" style="border: 0pt none;" title="wearpeacedesign" src="http://www.peaceweek.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wearpeacedesign.jpg" alt="wearpeacedesign" width="267" height="248" /> It is envisaged that all the clothes and accessories will contain a small quantity of decommissioned gun metal or metal from an unused bullet – as designer tags or fashion details, to reinforce the message of every garment purchased will help to take another gun out of circulation.

A Wearpeace display was featured at the 2010 OSBAs and plans are being formed for an official launch later this year. Any further news will be announced here. Meanwhile take a look at the excellent Wearpeace blog.

Urban Miracle Peace Walk

pkeeble — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:03:50 +0000

We’ve just received information about the next Urban Miracle Peace Walk which will take place on June 6th. It will start at 6pm with a short prayer service at Whalley Range Methodist Church, Withington Road, and finish at St. Bride’s Church, Blair Street, Old Trafford. This is not a PeaceWeek event (different time of year!), but we fully support all initiatives from the community to promote peace, and encourage as many as are able to go along. For more information contact Joe Malaika by email or phone 07903 102 620. The march is co-organised by Joe and Janice Wood. Download a poster here.

PeaceWeek 2011… note the dates

pkeeble — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:02:01 +0000

This morning we held the first planning meeting for PeaceWeek 2011. Get your diaries out… the dates will be March 5 - 12. We hope (funding and personnel permitting) to run the usual main events: The Launch, Peaceweek Shield, Lantern Parade, Schools Showcase and OSBA Peace Awards. We will also once again be putting together a package of activities for local schools, and will also like to run the Peace Debate again. As always, we encourage others to add events and activities of their own to come under the PeaceWeek banner, so we can make a greater impact together. Two further meetings have been arranged for June and July (details below) at which we hope to decide on a theme. A few suggestions were floated today, but there’s room for more. If you have an idea, send it in.

We now have a PeaceWeek 2011 Facebook group. Click here to join. And don’t forget you can also subscribe to this website using the box on the right to receive news of updates as they happen.

Next PeaceWeek planning meetings (everyone welcome… but be willing to make a positive contribution):

• Wednesday June 2, 9.30am at the Millennium Powerhouse, Raby Street, Moss Side.

• Thursday July 8, 6pm at the Carisma Office, St. Mary’s Parsonage, 1 Parsonage Street, Hulme, M15 5WD. (It’s the red door!) This one is in the evening to enable others to come who are normally unable to get to a daytime meeting.

For more information, phone 226 9905, or email.

PeaceWeek 2011…!!

pkeeble — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:06:25 +0000

May 12, 2010
10:00 am	to	12:00 pm

Putting PeaceWeek together takes a lot of work, and some parts of it need to be planned a long time in advance, so the first planning meeting for PeaceWeek 2011 will be on May 12, 10am-12noon at the Millennium Powerhouse, Raby Street, Moss Side. At this meeting we hope to finalise the dates for 2011 (provisionally March 5-12), and begin to think about what our theme will be. As with all PeaceWeek meetings, anyone from the community who would like to make a positive contribution is welcome, so if you’ve got any ideas about the theme or different things we could do in PeaceWeek, come along. If you HAVEN’T got any ideas, come along anyway - inspiration might hit during the meeting! Email for more information, or just turn up.

Schools Showcase

pkeeble — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:08:15 +0000

Another brilliant PeaceWeek Schools Showcase today at Zion Arts featured young people from 13 schools. Over two shows, they sung, danced, rapped and smiled as they showed each other and many guests what they had been working at and creating on the theme of ‘Peace in the Mix’. Organised by Natalie Teniola, director of ABC Collectables, artists Ali Gadema (theatre hip hop), Dahlia Francis (dance), Nikky Horton (drama) and Mark McKenzie (singing), led creative workshops in the schools for four weeks leading up to PeaceWeek. Today we saw the fruits of the hard work and talent of the artists and the children, showing once again just how much life and positive energy there is in this area and its young people. (Photo shows Ali Gadema aka Frisko introducing the afternoon show)

PeaceWeek in the News

pkeeble — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:01:42 +0000

News reports on PeaceWeek.

Launch Event. “Peace Week gets underway”. Manchester Evening News, Tuesday March 9.

Nims Obunge. “Missionary brings peace message to Manchester”. MEN, Friday March 12.

The OSBAs. “Salute to ASBO girl who turned life around”. MEN, Monday March 15. There is also a gallery of photos from the OSBAs on the MEN website here.

The Evening News also had photographers at the Lantern Parade but that article (if there was one one?) does not seem to be online. If anyone can send a copy, or knows of other articles or coverage, let us know.

PeaceWeek Evaluation

pkeeble — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:09:58 +0000

March 30, 2010
10:00 am	to	12:00 pm

A meeting to review PeaceWeek 2010 will be held on March 30, 10am-12noon at The Millennium PowerHouse, Raby Street, Moss Side. Come along and give your views on what was good, what could have been better, and maybe some ideas for next time. Constructive criticism welcome, but with this warning: As PeaceWeek is about us all joining in, any “why didn’t you do x?” comments may be answered with “why didn’t YOU do x?” !!!