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BIG ISLAND GOES GLOBAL FOR PEACE DAY
Live streaming video links Hawaii with international events
On Sunday and Monday, September 20-21, 2009, the Island of Hawaii will join global Peace Day celebrations in London, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, South Africa, Brazil, California, Canada and elsewhere, via technological wizardry and the efforts of international organizations such as Peace in Our Lifetime.
Two Big Island separate events will be broadcast via streaming video on the worldwide web in joint Peace Day music cooperative concerts happening around the world. The "Global United Party for Peace" will also appear within a virtual reality world, Second Life, where 3D user-generated characters called Residents, move, work, socialize, go to school, play and do business. Potential audience for the internet streaming broadcast is an estimated 1.5 million viewers.
The events are: - Sunday, September 20, 12:00-4:40 p.m. Parade & Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace, Starts and ends at Honokaa High School. Free.
- Monday, September 21, 1:00-7:00 p.m. The World Peace Effect Festival, Kalani Oceanside Retreat, Pahoa. Donations. For information call Christian Hine 808-854-0407.
This first-of-its kind global broadcast from Hawaii is made possible through the cooperative efforts of the Peace Committee of Honokaa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, Christian Hine-World Peace Effect Festival, Zion Estes-Amaraka, Honokaa High School, actress and peace pioneer Lynne Hazelden-Peace In Our Lifetime/Planting Seeds (United Kingdom), and many others. Major financial support has been provided by the County of Hawaii Dept. of Research & Development (Tourism Division), The Social Concerns Committee of Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, Healing our Island and others.
To view the broadcasts, visit: - "Read for Peace"
Honokaa Library
Monday, September 14, 2009
6:00pm
Open house and special opportunity to encourage students and families to Read for Peace. The Carteret Atoll Project will make a multi-media presentation on the survival of the atoll, soon to be submerged by global warming. Children's craft activity.
- "Read for Peace" flyer (coming)
- "Drums, Not Drugs
Exciting, eclectic, one-of-a-kind downtown Honoka'a BLOCK PARTY and CONCERT
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Block Party 3:00-6:00pm
Family-friendly and Free
With dynamic drummers from
Pacific Buddhist Academy Taiko Ensemble, Oahu
Native American Pawnee Iruska (warrior) drummers
Sacred Womens Drum Circle of Pahoa
Hawaiian Ipu drums and more
PLUS Art4 Peace street art event presented by Mar Ortaleza and AHA Abled Hawaiian Artists
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SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERT AT THE PEOPLES THEATER
7:00pm
High-impact Native American motivational speaker Brian Frejo delivers a message of C4G, Created For Greatness. Plus, brother Quese IMC and their powerful hip hop crew CULTURE SHOCK CAMP and MORE great Big Island performers live onstage.
Concert Tickets $10 at the door.
- Student Peace Poster Contest
DEADLINE TO ENTER: September 11, 2009
All Hawaii students urged to express their own interpretation of this years theme:
Peace is being
1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes ($50, $35 and $25) awarded for various age divisions. Plus Best of Show
Instructions and Entry Forms below
- 3rd Annual Parade and Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace Hamakua Times, July, 2009
- Peace Day Parade Looking for Entries West Hawaii Today, Sunday, July 26, 2009
- The Parade for Peace Seeks Entries The North Hawaii News, Thursday, July 16, 2009