Global Peace Week
Tuesday's Schedule of Events - September 28th, 2021
Time | Session |
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8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Meditation |
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Finding Inner Peace With Metta Meditation |
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Intersectional Identities, Politics, and Poetry |
1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Allyship And The LGBTQ+ Community |
2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Be the One to Step Up and Say Something |
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. | Veganism: Towards a More Peaceful Path |
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Global Peace Film Festival |
Global Peace Week 2021 is a virtual event
Global Peace Week
Tuesday's Schedule
Virtual
Meditation
Lianna McGowan
Begin your day by centering your heart and mind in a short mindfulness practice to
cultivate receptivity and openness. From this stance we can listen to ourselves and
others to develop a language that centers on restoration and healing.
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Venue: Virtual
Finding Inner Peace With Metta Meditation
Joanna Nazario Grzechowiak
Join us to explore practices for achieving inner piece, most notably metta meditation,
also known as loving-kindness meditation. During the workshop, we will reflect on
the benefits of metta meditation, identify moments in which loving-kindness can help
us manage our inner state, and learn how to meditate using this technique.
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Venue: Virtual
Intersectional Identities, Politics, and Poetry
Aaron Ellis
This session serves as an introduction and meditation on intersectionality. We will
hold space for participants to locate themselves in our intersectional, political
landscape today. Participants will use poetry to articulate their own identities,
and reflect on their own political, artistic, and/or professional commitments. All
are welcome! No prior experience necessary.
Partner Orgazation - Orange County Library Systems
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Venue: Virtual
Allyship And The LGBTQ+ Community
Dr. Jennifer Danilowski and Jon Taylor
This workshop will outline the importance of allyship with the LGBTQ+ community and
will discuss strategies to use allyship to counter hate.
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Venue: Virtual
Be the One to Step Up and Say Something
Trisha Whitmire and Courtney Demings
Situations may arise where someone says or does something inappropriate such as make
jokes, comments, or actions that diminish someone’s race, ethnicity, gender, gender
identity, sexual orientation, or other identities and we may feel as though we should
say something in the moment or after. In this session, participants will learn about
their own barriers to speaking up in these moments and will practice finding the words
to address concerning behaviors.
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Venue: Virtual
Veganism: Towards a More Peaceful Path
Andi Michaels
How does moving toward a vegan lifestyle become a peace practice? How does this practice
create a transformational shift in our lives? In this workshop, participants will
explore veganism and speciesism from the personal, sociological, and economic perspectives.
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Venue: Virtual
Global Peace Film Festival - Cured
Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure.
These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe lesbians and gay men in
the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. According to the medical establishment, every gay
person—no matter how well-adjusted—suffered from a mental disorder. And as long as
lesbians and gay men were “sick,” progress toward equality was impossible. CURED chronicles
the battle waged by a small group of activists who declared war against a formidable
institution—and won a crucial victory in the modern movement for LGBTQ equality.
This feature-length documentary takes viewers inside the David-versus-Goliath struggle
that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its
manual of mental illnesses in 1973. Viewers meet the key players who achieved this
victory, along with allies and opponents within the APA. The film illuminates the
strategy and tactics that led to this pivotal yet largely unknown moment. Indeed,
following the Stonewall uprising of 1969, the campaign that culminated in the APA’s
decision marks the first major step on the path to first-class citizenship for LGBTQ
Americans.
While CURED is indisputably about science, medicine, and politics, at its core this
is a film about activism and the process of social change. It features a diverse group
of crusaders with stubborn dedication and big personalities who came together at a
crossroads in LGBTQ history. Their tenacity, resourcefulness, and ingenuity brought
about a change that transformed not only LGBTQ people’s perceptions of themselves,
but also the social fabric of America.
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Virtual