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Climate Justice Exhibition
The WILPF UK Climate Justice Exhibition is live on our website! You can study it at your leisure at www.wilpf.org.uk/climate-exhibition
The Art of Peace
An exhibition of creative work by mainly local artists including Edwin Cluer.
Refreshments Available
Be stimulated by the exhibited ideas of peace and share/discuss your own.
Concord Media's list of films suitable for training in nonviolence.
Please visit our website www.concordmedia.org.uk to order any of the titles which are a small selection from our range of films on topics of social concern.
No More War – Lets Make Peace Happen.
Remembrance Day event for peace.
1pm @ Tavistock Square, London WC1
A ceremony of Remembrance and Peace 100 years after the First World War
2 – 5pm @ Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Network for Peace AGM & WW1 Planning Meeting
A follow up on a peace movement planning meeting held in 2013. If you're planning events or resources on the centenary of WW1 - or if you want to know more about peace movement activities please do come along.
Musical Protest No More Arms Fairs!
ELAAF Musical Protests aim to raise awareness of the arms trade and campaign for the cancellation of all arms fairs at ExCeL or anywhere else. More supporters are needed. Just turn up and be welcome.
"War No More - War Never Again" - Peace Vigil
Silent Peace vigil with messages ‘War no More - War never again’ on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields on the centenary of the start of the first World War.
PPU would like to encourage groups to organise similar vigils in their towns & cities.
The First World War Peace Forum is also encouraging people to tweet #nomorewar at 11.00pm on 4th August.
Pax Christi, PPU, QPSW, FOR, WILPF, Peace News, Movement for the Abolition of War, Conscience and Network for Peace
http://www.ppu.org.uk/nomorewar/a_general/vigil.html
Conscientious Objectors Day
In the run up to the centenary of the First World War, we will be remembering the Conscientious Objectors and the women peace campaigners who said No to the war.
Descendents of more than 30 WW1 COs and women peace campaigners from all over the country will be coming to commemorate the lives of their relatives and the brave stand taken by all those who opposed the war.
Flowers will be laid in tribute to the COs of WW1 and to COs all over the world.
Marching Orders for the Military Ethos - a Culture of Peace vs a Culture of War
How and why the government is planning to increase military influence in our schools, and society as a whole.
Guest speakers include Sam Walton from Quaker Peace & Social Witness.
A short Network for Peace AGM will be held at 1.30pm, speaker sessions start at 2pm.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration
Join the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration event in Southampton.
With guest speaker Frank Boulton, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
No More Hiroshimas
On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, join Merton Peace Coalition/CND to remember the victims who needlessly lost their lives.
‘End the Genocide’
Join CND and others to tell the government to end the genocide; stop arming Israel; and stop starving Gaza!
March through central London, assembly point and route TBC.
Menwith Hill demonstration – morning protest at Yorkshire base
Join activists at the Main Gate at US Menwith Hill, to take opposition to the workers as they go into the base.
Bring a placard saying why you are there.
‘The Mistake’
Michael Mears’s compelling and profoundly moving new play, performed by Michael and young Japanese actor Riko Nakazono, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, explores personal stories surrounding that catastrop
‘The Mistake’
Michael Mears’s compelling and profoundly moving new play, performed by Michael and young Japanese actor Riko Nakazono, directed by Rosamunde Hutt, explores personal stories surrounding that catastrop
In Common
A new exhibition exploring the histories and legacies of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
Atomic Cabaret
Lynda Williams, the Physics Chanteuse, returns to the stage with her new one-woman science-political musical, Atomic Cabaret.
Concert for Peace: Wissam Boustany (flute) and Aleksander Szram (piano)
Programme
Dave Heath Ascension*
Piazolla Lento – Meditativo
Nicola LeFanu The Forest, the Strand, the Sea (solo piano)
Saint-Saëns Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75
Screening: YALLAH GAZA (2023)
Exclusive screening of a new French documentary about Gaza history and its inhabitants completed just before the October 7th attack.
