June 23-27, 2010
6pm Wednesday to 12 Noon Sunday
$863 US – includes meals and housing*
Special: Sign up with a partner/friend - Two individuals for $1600
Join a circle of women and men committed to Global Healing.
Become inspired to plant your own seeds of Peace on the Planet.
Engage with powerful Speakers, Storytellers, Singers, Musicians, Artists…
Learn about Ordinary Activism. Network with Like-Minded Souls.
Final $663 Payment for Registration After 4/1/10 |
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Final $625 payment for early bird registrations (before 4/1/10) |
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Final $1200 Payment for 2 Individuals |
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Full $863 Payment for New Individual Registration |
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Full $1600 Payment for New Pair Registration |
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People from around the globe who are dedicated to the manifestation of peace will be speaking, offering workshops during the day and performances in the evening. Click here for daily schedule.
The flow of the week will start with a focus on healing, healing the planet, healing peace in Northern Ireland and healing collective trauma. Midweek we learn about action we can take – armed with art, the role of dissent and pilgrims of peace. As we move toward closure, we look at how we step into activism through a whole systems event and the final talk on feminism, activism and waging peace.
Vision
The Hope Springs International Peace Gathering supports, reinforces and celebrates activism, social justice and transformative change; events that build international peace; efforts that choose optimism over cynicism, hope over despair and community over isolation.
The Outcomes we hope for are to:
Kate Fitzpatrick lives in Donegal and is a writer and a musician who grew up in Lisburn in County Antrim. As an experiential teacher in the late 90’s and early 2000’s she spent several years doing mythic work with groups of women that was directed towards healing in the North of Ireland. She is writing a book on her journey with the Celtic Feminine and her work with healing of the land. She is currently setting up a new practice in Ireland to extend her work into life and business coaching.
Born the youngest of 15 children in the highlands of Central America, Flordemayo is a healer whose work bridges the worlds. She is a founding director of the Institute for Natural and Traditional Knowledge, the recipient of the Martin de La Cruz Award for Alternative Healing, a prestigious honor given by the International Congress of Traditional Medicine, and a frequent presenter at international conferences. Read Flordemayo full bio…
A published author, performance poet, award-winning playwright, essayist, and organizer, Alice Lovelace uses her talents to work for social and economic justice. Her numerous awards include: the Georgia Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award; and the Democratic Socialists of America’s Frederick Douglas-Eugene Debs Award. Alice is currently serving as the Associate Regional Director for American Friends Service Committee. Read Alice Lovelace full bio…
As a feminist, Alexandra Merrill seeks to focus group work on the processes which oppress the human spirit in men and women and then collaborate with the group to lift that oppressive energy off the system. She is president of Merrill Consulting Associates and founder of Women's Way. Alexandra’s current work focuses on developing regional, national, cross cultural and cross-discipline teams of women working for social change in the United States and India. Read Alexandra Merrill full bio… |
Gina Ross is Founder and President of the International Trauma-Healing Institute and its Israeli branch ITI-Israel. Gina is an international trainer in the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, on healing trauma at national levels, and exploring the role of collective trauma in conflict and war. Her professional specialty in trauma is rooted in her personal life experiences of fleeing Syria as a child, leaving Lebanon overnight during the civil war, and arriving in Brazil as a teenager. Read Gina Ross full bio…
Bhanumathy Vasudevan (Bhanu)is a social scientist from Tamil Nadu, India. Her feminist ideologies and a passion for women’s work guide her personal and professional life. Bhanumathy is a teacher, business manager, researcher, and organizational development specialist who leads programs for women leaders in the United States and India. She is also a student of alternative healing practices, instrumental music, and ornithology. Read Bhanumathy Vasudevan full bio…
As a member of the Foreign Service, Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright was the U.S. Deputy Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She also served in: Somalia; Kyrgyzstan; Grenada; Micronesia; and Nicaragua. On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Colonel Wright submitted a letter of resignation to (then) Secretary of State Colin Powell stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, and oil-rich country would be a disaster. Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. Read Ann Wright full bio… |
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emma's revolution brings their uprising of truth, hope and a dash of healthy irreverence to concerts and peace & justice events across the US Website: http://emmasrevolution.com |
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Minton Sparks is a great storyteller. Humanity with humidity all told humorously with humility. --John Prine Website: www.mintonsparks.com |
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MUSE - Cincinnati's Women's Choir MUSE is a women's choir dedicated to musical excellence and social change. In keeping with our belief that diversity is strength, we are feminist women of varied ages, races, and ethnicities with a range of musical abilities, political interests, and life experiences. We are women loving women; we are heterosexual, lesbian and bisexual women united in song. We commission and seek out music composed by women, pieces written to enhance the sound of women's vices and songs that honor the enduring spirit of all peoples. In performing, we strive for concert experience that entertains, inspires, motivates, heals and creates a feeling of community with our audience. |
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