Happy New Year!
May 2015 bring us many opportunities - personal, local and global, to build peace, understanding, healing & unity

A Peace Flag done by a volunteer 
for MLK Day of Service

The 20th Annual MLK Day of Service was a huge success

and included efforts to register Philly voters and organize around important peace and justice issues. 

THANK YOU Global Citizen
for your amazing work to make Philly's observance the largest nationwide! 
For photos, CLICK HERE

This year through the efforts of DARE, 5,000 Philadelphia citizens took part on one of many marches for police accountability and economic justice that took place across the US.  For more info, CLICK HERE
About follow up from the March, 


 (IJ) Presents

featuring Syrian Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Israeli Pianist Sally Pinka
 
IJ seeks to promote understanding in pursuit of peace among people of diverse faiths & cultures through dialogue & presentation of world-class performances in music, dance, the spoken word, & other art forms. 
 
 

 


Upcoming Global Dates
 
February 1-7


February 14 
Facebook - Twitter @VDay
Drum - Dance  Rise!

March 8
#IWD2015 
2015 theme: 
 "Make It Happen"

For info on collaborative program in Philly 
Wed., March 4 at 6pm


Mark Your Calendars for Peace Day Philly 2015!
September 21 
(days before and after can be part of the effort, too!) 

What can you do to build peace in ways that are meaningful to you /your organization?
Check out
GET YOUR ORGANIZATION INVOLVED!

From a 2014 Collaborator:

"Working with Peace Day Philly allowed us to put together an event that connected historic peacebuilders like Dr. King and Mahatma Gandhi with today's opportunities for building cross-cultural understanding. People who attended our event valued the chance to talk meaningfully about these issues. Listening to each person's comments during the event was like having an intimate window into dozens of different family dinner-table conversations."
 - Amanda Berfson-Shilock, The Welcoming Center, about "Changemakers" program, a featured event of PDP 2014
For more info, CLICK HERE 
For photos, CLICK HERE
Speaker Rev. David Brown of NewCORE

(above image, participants viewed photos by PDP Board member Manisha Patel)

For a summary of 
PDP 2014 which included over 30 programs and activities,

S. Sanchez
We were honored to once again have poet and peace warrior Sonia Sanchez engaged in Peace Day Philly through a full-day poetry/hip hop program at the Penn Museum - 
CLICK HERE for details

A peace bench that was dedicated on Sept. 21 as part of the Penn Museum program

 
Collaborate with us!
PDP's mission centers around Peace Day, Sept. 21, but we welcome collaborations on peace-related programs 
any time of year.

Twitter: @peacedayphilly