Events - 7 Oct 23

09/29/2023 - 10/30/2023

All Day

Visionary Peace Youth Art Exhibition: Call for Artwork

• Location: Call for Artwork
• Organization(s): Pacem in Terris
• Creative Activity, Youth

Create your vision of peace for the 8th Annual Visionary Peace Youth Art Exhibition! We invite young artists to create their vision of a peaceful world. The artwork is intended to foster dialogue and encourage an intergenerational response to create a more peaceful world.

10/07/2023

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Depolarizing Within: A Braver Angels Workshop

• Location: First Unitarian Church of Wilmington
  730 Halstead Rd., Wilmington, DE, 19803
• Organization(s): Braver Angels
• Discussion, Non-violence, Well-being

Depolarizing Within is designed to foster skills to help you lessen the effects of polarization when you encounter them in your political conversations. Note that by “polarization,” we are not referring to healthy disagreements over issues or philosophy. We are talking about how we regard and talk about large groups of ordinary people on the other side of the political aisle.

Take this workshop if you are interested in the following:

1. Becoming more aware of your inner polarizer and finding ways to counteract that impulse.
2. Learning to be critical without stereotyping, dismissing, ridiculing, or showing contempt.
3. Building skills for intervening constructively in social conversations that veer into contempt and ridicule for people with other political views.

Please reserve a space using the provided eventbrite link. On-site registration will be available for those who choose not to book/register online.

10/07/2023

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Making Peaceful Habitats

• Location: Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse
  1501 Old Wilmington Rd., Hockessin
• Organization(s): Hockessin Friends Meeting
• Discussion, Environment

Aaron Sharp, director of Delaware Interfaith Power and Light, will be speaking about the Sacred Grounds projects installing native plantings in Wilmington. Sacred Grounds is a joint effort of National Wildlife Federation, Delaware Center for Horticulture, and Delaware Nature Society to install and help to maintain native plant gardens and pollinator patches in a variety of Wilmington churches and community centers. The effort has a goal of creating a corridor for butterflies and birds to be able to find food and shelter as they migrate through our area and to restore some of the native plants they rely on.

10/07/2023

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Rehoboth Concert Band Peace Concert--"Mi Casa es Su Casa"

• Location: Georgetown–N. Bedford Street Park
  203 N. Bedford Street, Georgetown, DE, 19947, Southern DE
• Organization(s): Rehoboth Concert Band Inc.
• Arts, Human rights, Outdoors

Mi Casa es Su Casa”
(Translation: My house is your house)
On October 7 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., join the Rehoboth Concert Band at  the N. Bedford Street Park for a festive and inspirational afternoon of music that promotes multicultural unification, connection, joy, and peace.  Selected tunes will celebrate Indigenous, African American, Latina, Jewish, and other cultures.  Through the universal language of music,  we can create and promote peace and begin to spread harmony in our local communities and beyond.   The event also features narrators with suggestions on where and how to become involved in peace-making activities in our community.

Rehoboth Concert Band is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide area instrumentalists opportunities to make beautiful music while enriching community life. The Band includes 50+ instrumentalists from southern Delaware. www.rehobothconcertband.org

10/07/2023

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Tigray, Ethiopia - the Unspoken Tragedy

• Location: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark
  420 Willa Rd, Newark, DE, 19711
• Organization(s): Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark
• Adult, Discussion, Human rights

Author of The Tigrayan Electrician Memories of Father and His Beloved Motherland, Issayas Yrgaw Bahta (aka Isaias Irgau), an Ethiopian refugee will speak on the events leading up to the killing of his father during the war in Ethiopia and his own escape to safety.

Background

• On October 11, 2019, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his efforts to make peace with neighboring Eritrea.
• On December 10, 2019, while delivering his Nobel Lecture, the Ethiopian Premier said he accepted the award on behalf of his “partner and comrade in peace,” the President of Eritrea.
• On November 4, 2020, 11 months after the Nobel Lecture, the Ethiopian premier and the Eritrean president coordinated a vicious military assault on the northern Ethiopian regional state of Tigray.

The peace treaty that had earned the Nobel Peace Prize just months earlier was, in fact, a war pact between Ethiopia’s and Eritrea’s Heads of State against Tigray and its regional government. The Nobel Institute had been spectacularly taken for a ride, and the people of Tigray found themselves at the receiving end of the most brutal war of the 21st century. A war that was the foundation of a two-year-long siege of the six million people of Tigray. The guns have fallen silent, but the wounds inflicted as a result of the siege and relentless onslaught on the people are anything but healed.

The presentation will lay bare events leading to the war and its consequences from a deeply personal perspective. There will be an opportunity to purchase the book, and all proceeds will be donated to help people suffering in the region.

https://www.tigrayanelectrician.com/

On-site registration will be available for those who chose not to book/register online.

10/07/2023

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Reading for Peace - Innovative Readers Aloud

• Location: The Finist & The Owl
  811 Brandywine Blvd, Wilmington
• Organization(s): The Finist & The Owl
• Arts

Come listen to inspiring excerpts from innovative authors while enjoying light refreshments.