Make music and prayers for Peace Mondays 1pm, Peace Garden @ the Rose Gardens

Peace Action Women for Sustainability & friends

invite you to a weekly gathering for peace - at the Peace Garden beside the Lady Norwood Rose Gardens in Wellington's Botanical Gardens

AIO ki te Aorangi - Peace to the Universe!

1pm on Mondays

Music waiata poetry prayers

Bring musical instruments, share insights and information

NAU MAI HAERE MAI -    ALL WELCOME 

  

all we are saying is.....

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!!

2022 September Exhibition and Festival 

In 2022 we inhabited the Thistle Gallery for a week and had saw many wonderful people...

Some of their comments were: 

 ● Children loved the interactive experiences, especially the sewing

● Welcoming environment. I love the instrument area

● GREAT EXHIBITION. PEACE NEED. CHANCE.

● LoVely gathering with lovely people

● I love the atmosphere and look of Thistle Gallery and this event is another wonderful one. Peace matters

● Uni student tryna represent where I’ve been and where I wanna go. 0 years here.

● Ataahua - awesome exhibition and programme including for kids

● Beautiful moving, loved dinosaurs for kids are great

● Great use of this space

● Lovely building - a great asset to Wellington and people who want space to exhibit the things that are important to them

● Thistle Hall is a terrific multi-use space in an important place in the community and Te Aro

● A much needed community space providing for important kaupapa needed now more than ever

● Special time, special place, special people. Thank you for all that you all do for all of humanity

● Made many wonderful connections. Felt very at peace

● My girl loved the visit, thank you

● Love the plant music

● Beautiful and full of peace!

● Luise, your soul filled puppet show of your tupuna journey from Europe/Germany to here, Aotearoa, was very moving. Arohanui.

● Wonderful puppet show which resonated with most of us from Myanmar, Chile, Uruguay, Ethiopia, China, Afghanistan, Mexico

● Kia ora to the Peace brigade - astonishing puppet show, fun but serious. Yet another wonderful exhibition/installation/challenge to the senses in Thistle Hall

● Thank you Fe & Luise & the team for organising such a beautiful puppet show. It resonated with me as my family and I came to NZ because of the similar reason 6 years ago from Russia

● Stimulating, well worth a visit! Thank you.

● Wonderful, Tino pai

● Beautiful. Thnx.

● Really enjoyed it.

● HURA!   ❤️

● Loved the concert + the jam!

● Great time

● Many Aroha

● A totally wonderful puppet show Luise + such a special audience

● Lovely space

● It’s lovely

● Right amount of Modern

● Thank you for a lovely start to my Sunday - so peaceful + welcoming   

● Loved it all

● Beautiful

WE HAD A GALA OPENING!    Champagne Breakfast 

to Celebrate International Day of Peace and Spring Equinox, 

8am, Wednesday 21 September (we will have watched the sunrise from the Carillon in Pukeahu at  6.15am)

You are invited!

Come and take part in creativity contemplation and community 

as we visualise and work towards a world 

of  justice peace and sustainability...

          Wednesday - Friday 10am - 7.30pm

                Saturday 10am - 9pm                              Sunday 10am - 4pm

All we are saying is GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!

Daily Activity Programme

10am Meditation Readings Songs Prayers

11am Pre-schoolers’ Time

12.15 Presenter/ Discussion

Wednesday 21 September 12.15 Music Concert ‘Pacific Reflections’   Bernard Wells guitar & Peter Daly viola

Thursday 22 September 12.15       Discussion on Blue Pacific - Nuclear Free Independent Pacific

Friday 23 September 12.15          Discussion on Lines of                                                 Dissent/Lines of Descent

3pm onwards  Students of all ages -  Creativity Workshops

5.30pm AIO Storyplay playback theatre, Tell a Personal Story See and Hear it Transformed Creatively in music and action

7pm  Meditation Readings Songs Prayers

Added sessions...

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Thursday Friday Saturday  FAMILY PUPPET SHOW 

Luise Brandt is travelling from Auckland especially to share the story of her family leaving Germany to come to NZ in the 1930s.  She says 

"This is a story from my Grandmother about peaceful resistance which I carried  with me as I journeyed with friends( the Fallout Marching Band from London,  the Niponzan Myohoji from Japan and Pramazons in NZ)  creating " manifestations" for Peace and the story eventually took this form of a puppet show after a young boy in Potaka on the East Cape asked if we, ( Pramazons ) had any puppet shows."

Luise will perform Thursday 22 Sept 3pm

    Friday 11am

      Saturday 11am

           KOHA can be made by eftpos

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Friday 23 September 3pm Immanuel Dannenbring Found Sounds and Field Recordings really listening to the microrhythms...

Friday 23 Sept  7.30pm Theatre piece - A Great Raw  Andy Dolling and friends are bringing this performance from Nelson.

A theatrical debate, about the “great” war of 1914. 1 actor with 6 masks. Inspired by the memories of Archibald Baxter “we will not cease". Archie was a Kiwi conscientious objector during the war of 1914-1918.

                        

Admission by koha - eftpos available

Saturday September 24 1pm Paperdoll Peace with Deirdra McMenamin.   Paperdoll peace is a quiet, inclusive, çreative, practical  way to work towards a peaceful world.

Saturday September 24 3pm Music Concert DIVINE PITCH is a new multi-media collaboration between Megan Ward and Stephen Riddell. We play a balance of original and traditional songs and tunes on a variety of instruments, mostly stringed, tuned to the "divine pitch" of A = 432Hz. Each of us came to folk music as a refugee from classical music, and in the process of doing the work to filter the inheritance of the old world we find ourselves telling stories from the mouth of the fish (Te Upoko o Te Ika/Wellington). We add content to our youtube channel every week. https://youtu.be/WQoiZMjfUH0

Sunday September 25 1pm Calligratherapy with Xin Alice Huang

Calligratherapy, Chinese Conscious Calligraphy, its success comes from its unequalled beauty and the mysterious form it creates, from the richness of its history and the possibility to constantly innovate its styles, however, there is another hidden reason that too many people wish to practice it and sometimes get attached to it forever: it is a mindful meditative activity where the whole body is involved, and which brings physical, mental, social and spiritual benefits, an immediate feeling of well-being.

Mindfulness when combined with calligraphy helps us to slow down our whole body. It brings us into an eternal awareness or pure consciousness - a relaxed state everything happens organically. This eventually leads to self-satisfaction with positivity.

Join us to learn the beautiful brush strokes and a new way to manage stress and change distress into eustress.

Sunday September 25 2pm Closing and sharing of works made during the Exhbition and Festival 

Monday September 26, 1pm, Peace Flame Garden, Lady Norwood Rose Gardens. Come and mark International Day for the Total Elimination of ALL Nuclear Weapons. Meet to sing, read, pray, talk, plan...

 Wednesday September 28, 7pm - 9.30pm, Thistle Hall, Upper Cuba St Workshop on Theatre of Liberation as designed by Augusto Boal delivered by Andy Dolling and friends . Email andydolling@hotmail.com

This festival is promoted by Peace Action Women for Sustainability

mana  ~  peace and justice ~  creativity  ~  community  ~  dialogue

We acknowledge the Peace and Disarmament Education Trust for their support!  Vive La Paix! All we are saying is give peace a chance. 

 

comments and questions to biancatheduck@gmail.com