A community dialogue on violence and nonviolence, at Colorado College: Mission Statement
Contacts: Mauro Sacchi, 719-321-4328, msacchi@coloradocollege.edu
Devon Little, 719- 471-4364, d_little@coloradocollege.edu
peace happens week(s)
a symposium on war, nonviolence and peace
activism
Colorado College, April 4th-17th,
2005
all events FREE and open to the public
Wednesday, April 13th
Be the Change
Cossitt Hall, 4-5:30pm
Workshop: Yoga
Facilitator: Peggy Berg, Dance Prof. at CC
Join us for meditation through yoga; find inner peace to foster outer peace.
RSVP, limited space available.
WES Room, 7:30-9:30pm
Panel: Active Everyday: Does Peace Have a Chance?
Join local activists as they discuss the possibilities of engagement in
‘everyday peace’: how do we reconcile a society that is more and more violent,
with the human need for peace, empathy and understanding?
Panelists include Bill Sulzman, Esther Kisamore, Dennis Apuan, Mary Lynn Sheetz,
Jim Beckenhaupt,
Steve Handen, Luke Terra, Bill Durland.
Moderator: Paul Burke, of Life, Meaning and Videotape
Thursday, April 14th
Table TalK
WES Room, 4:30-6pm
Film: Peace of Mind: Coexistence through the Eyes of Palestinian and
Israeli Teens
These teenagers live and work together at the “Seeds of Peace” summer camp, and
then return home, each with their own video camera, to document themselves,
their families, friends and communities, revealing the internal and external
challenges each of them faces. Humanity and friendship win out even amidst
all-out conflict.
Moderator: Bill and Genie Durland of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace
Commission
Dinner: Nonviolence in the Liberal Arts Curriculum
CC Italian House, 1138 N Cascade, 7:30pm-late
A continuation of the “Teaching Peace Workshop” here at Colorado College.
All interested students/faculty/community members are invited, but please
RSVP! Thank you.
Friday, April
15th
Faculty and Faith Lunchtime Series: Peace Within, Peace Without
Shove Chapel, downstairs, 12-1pm
Film: Namuamitabul Christmas (15 min)
What role does faith play in conflict? How does one cross cultural, traditional
and religious barriers, and engage in true dialogue?
Moderators: Ginger Morgan and Bruce Coriell, CC Chaplains
Film: A Space for Peace
WES Room, 4-6pm
Space is continually being militarized by the USA: today, unbeknownst to
many, space exploration merges easily with defense strategy. Is peace possible
while the arms race is set to take off, once again, on a global level?
Moderators: Bill Sulzman and Loring Wirbel, of Citizens for Peace in
Space
Film: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Max Kade Theatre, Armstrong Hall, 7-9pm
Starring Noam Chomsky, world-acclaimed linguist at MIT, as himself, this
documentary takes a close look at today’s media,
and examines thought control in a ‘democratic’ society. “Propaganda is to
democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.”
Moderator: Paul Burke, of Life, Meaning and Videotape
Saturday, April
16th
American Racial & Cultural Relations
Armstrong Theatre, 11:30am-12pm
also part of the Race Matters Symposium
Film: We Were Warriors (30 min.) (from “A Force More Powerful”)
An account of the student-led 1960 campaign to desegregate Nashville’s downtown
business district. It profiles Rev. James Lawson, who studied Gandhi's
techniques in Nagpur, India and later joined forces with Martin Luther King Jr.
to become a principal architect of the struggle for Civil Rights. Lunch
provided!
Race Matters Symposium events to follow throughout the afternoon, Armstrong
Theatre
In
collaboration with the Race Matters Symposium
Sunday, April 17th
Peace Circle and Closing Ceremonies
Synergy House and surroundings,10am-12pm Activity:
Gardening and tree-planting with Synergy House
Shove Lawn,12-1 pm Shove
Chapel soup kitchen - food prep
Join us for a good, shared, wholesome meal. Volunteers needed for
cooking/prepping in the morning!
Shove Chapel, 1-2pm Film: Just
A Little Red Dot
A Sri Lankan girl arrives in her new, Canadian, 5th grade class
with a bindi on her forehead. Her classmates mock her, until her teacher wears
one to class too… Soon all of the children in the class are wearing one, and
then face the task of opening the minds of their elementary school and
community.
Shove Lawn, 2:00 lunch
2:30pm closing Peace Circle
As the symposium wraps up, we come together to share our common humanity and
commit to nonviolence in our everyday lives and interactions with each other.
Armstrong Theatre, 3-5pm Concert:
Staying on the Wall: Annual Gospel Extravaganza
Featuring the Gospel Music Workshop of America. With an introduction by the
Rev. Benjamin L. Reynolds, local NAACP President.
In collaboration with the Race Matters Symposium
peace happens week(s) sets out to be a symposium for an ongoing discussion on war, conflict and peaceful, nonviolent means of resolutions to it. Numerous are the instances, all over the globe, where warfare and continuous military and violent operations have failed, while a nonviolent approach—be it at the community, or institutional level—has proved worthy and successful: it is our goal to engage the CC and local communities in a proactive dialogue on these issues, so that our culture of fear, militarism and ‘endless war’ can be replaced by a new system where humanity—all human beings—matters.
We seek to foster a dialogue between our speakers/moderators and all those in attendance, in response to the subject matters and the documentary features presented, connecting our community in a respectful and nonviolent, possibly even transformative, way, and desiring to listen to the opinions of all, in order to perfect that which we passionately assert and live out.
peace happens
contacts
Mauro Sacchi, (719) 321 4328,
msacchi@coloradocollege.edu
Devon Little, (719) 471 4364,
d_little@coloradocollege.edu
Check out
www.coloradocollege.edu/news_events and
www.ppjpc.org for updates
peace happens
is supported and made possible by:
International Studies Program
National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship * Chaplain’s Office *
Colloquium on Conflict Romance Languages Dept * President’s Fund * Sociology
Dept
Pikes Peak Justice
and Peace Commission * Life, Meaning & Videotape
and all our wonderful partners in peace who bless us with their talents, insight
and friendship.