International Day of Peace - Bike for Peace
🚴♂️🕊️ Ride for Peace this World Peace Day! Join us on Saturday, September 21st for a meaningful 20 km cycling journey as we visit sites of faith and unity, including the Ummah Mosque, and St. Andrews United Church.
Departing at 10:30 AM from the Dalhousie Bike Centre, we'll ride together to visit the Peace Pavillion at around 11 am, then the Ummah Mosque for food and tea at 11:20 and St. Andrews United Church to join with peace walkers finishing the last kilometer of their 200 km journey from Pugwash Nova Scotia to the Dalhousie Student Union Building, after which a lunch will be provided and bikers will have the option of joining the walkers for their afternoon programming.
Morning Biking Program:
10:30 am | Depart from Bike Centre
11:00 | Peace Pavillion, Return across Macdonald Bridge
11:20 am | Ummah Mosque, Break + Refreshments,
12:00 pm | St. Andrews United Church for Greeting
Optional Afternoon Program with Walkers:
WELCOME
12:30 pm | Arrival & Light lunch, Student Union Building (SUB) Dalhousie University
2:00 pm | Indigenous Prayer, Grassroots Grandmothers
2:15 pm | Welcome, Mayor (TBA) or Designated Representative
2:20 pm | Presentation of Buddhist Prayer
2:25 pm | Welcome, Mariam Knakriah, DSU President
2:30 pm | #Walk4Peace Film from the 12-day walk (also Setsuko Thurlow film)
2:40 pm | Musical Interlude
THE NEED FOR CANADA TO BE A PEACE-MAKING NATION
2:45 pm | Introductions, & Intro Lynn Adamson, Co-Chair of VOW Peace
2:50 pm | Senator Marilou McPhedran
3:00 pm | Lia Holla, Youth Walker, Executive Director, IPPNWC
3:10 pm | Robin Collins & Nancy Covington, Canadian Pugwash
3:20 pm | Ellen Woodsworth, WILF
3:30 pm | Kathrin Winkler, Introduction of El Jones
3:35 pm | El Jones: Poet, Journalist, Professor and Activist
3:50 pm | Musical Interlude
INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF PEACE
4:00 pm | Jill Carr-Harris, Jai Jagat: Presentation of International Peace Activists
4:05 pm | Rajagopal, P.V. International Peace Activist, India
4:10 pm | Yogesh Mathuria, Gandhi Peace Walker
4:15 pm | Masa Kateb, Syrian-Gandhian Communication Expert
4:20 pm | Vote of Thanks
4:25 pm | Peace Concert: Sustainability Band & Student Bands
Optional Evening Program with Walkers:
WALK TO THE WATER
6:00 pm | Steps towards the water
7:15 pm | Sunset Water Ceremony (Last sunset of Summer 2024)
7:45 pm | Concluding at Peace by Chocolate
