ARTISTS WAGE PEACE

Celebratory dinner: Palestinian and Israeli chefs serving regional specialties

Info: JUNE 12
MORNING
9:30-10 greeting, registering, welcome remarks Robin Pacific
10-10:15 Blessing: Father Nathan Humphrey, St. Thomas Anglican Church
10:15-11 Artist’s Talk: Roula Said
11 Singalong – Roula Said, Maryem Tollar, and Marching Disorder Band, “Let love occupy your heart, let love colonize your mind”. Lyrics by David Wall.
11:30-12 coffee
12-12:15 Gary Barwin, reading from The Comedian’s Book of the Dead
12:15-12:30 Ronna Bloom, reading poems from "In a Riptide"
12:30-1:30 Lunch
June 12
AFTERNOON
1:30 Blessing, Rabbi tbd
1:45-2:15 Jeffrey Wilkinson and Samia O’Day musical performance
2:30-3 Lior Ben Zvi and Parents Circle/Family Forum, videos and talk
3-4 Maryem Tollar and friends – musical performance

Info: JUNE 13 MORNING
10 Blessing: Imam Farheen Khan, co-founder, Women’s Mosque of Canada
10:15-10:30 Robbie Cohen, talk, "A New Vision for Israel" (subject to travel plans)
10:30-10:45 Honey Novick, Poems and Songs
10:45-11 Jon Allen, former Ambassador to Israel, founder of Rozana, mobile health clinic in Gaza (subject to travel plans)
11-12 Larry Nusbaum, Music Meditation for Peace
12:00-1:30 lunch Bring your own or eat in the neighbourhood
JUNE 13 AFTERNOON
1:45-2:45 Talk and breakout sessions, Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson, Authors of The Wall Between, How October 7 and Gaza Have Reshaped the Narrative
3-3:30 Roula Said and friends, Palestinian PoemSongs, musical performance
3:30-4 Closing remarks, Yafa Sakkejha, Canadian Peace and Depolarization Advocate
JUNE 13 EVENING
Celebratory dinner with Palestinian and Israeli chefs

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada

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