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COVENTRYPEACE FESTIVAL1-14 November 2017
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www.coventry.gov.uk/peace
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Coventry PeaceFestival 2017Dear reader
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2017Peace Festival.
Coventry has been spreading a message of peace and reconciliation for many years and this annual festival is a celebration of that work.
Once again we have some great events – including the Annual Peace Lecture, which is this year being delivered by an old friend of our city, the Rev Canon Paul Oestreicher, who has held key posts with CND, Amnesty International and our own Centre for International Reconciliation.
We also have the launch of the new Coventry Peace Trail and, of course, the Service of Remembrance and Poppy Drop.
Recently I was privileged to travel to our twin city of Kiel to mark 70 years of friendship where I saw some of the results of our city’s work for peace. It is so inspiring that two cities that came together so soon after the devastation of war have grown so close.
The Peace Festival helps us to honour the past, celebrate all that we have done so far and prepare for the work ahead.
Thank you for being a part of it.
Best wishesCouncillor Tony SkipperLord Mayor of the City of Coventry
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Pre-festival eventsWriteabridge Poetry CompetitionOnline competition: An international poetry competition designed to celebrate creativity that builds bridges instead of walls and raise money for charity. Writeabridge gives you the opportunity to write a poem based on any theme or topic and at the same time raises money for two wonderful charities that seek to bring hope to communities. Please be creative! There are cash prizes for the winning entries and publication on the website. Please keep checking this site for more info. Deadline for entries:14 November 2017.Contact: [email protected] or www.writeabridge.com
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Ongoing eventsPeace Through Poetry at Coventry LibrariesFind peace at your library. Every library in the city has a wide range of poetry books for adults and children. Poetry will inspire thoughts and reflection and help people to find inner peace. As part of the Peace Festival everyone can pick up a free “Poetry On loan” postcard at local libraries in the city.Contact: www.coventry.gov.uk/libraries or ask in any library for details.
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Monday 30 October to Tuesday 14 NovemberSt John the Baptist Peace FestivalTime: VariousVenue: St John the Baptist Church, Fleet St, CV1 3AYA series of peace and reconciliation events and services including poetry readings, peace garden, tours, music recitals and more.Contact: For updated info www.stjohnthebaptistcoventry.org.uk
Wednesday 1 NovemberChanging Trax Electric PromsTime: 7pmVenue: Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, CV4 7AL12 of Coventry’s finest young emerging artists alongside a 30-piece orchestra and 22 strong youth choirCost: Adults: £9, Under 18s: £5.Contact: Tickets available from www.coventry2021.co.uk/PYFProms
Wednesday 1 November to Tuesday 14 NovemberReflections on ReconciliationTime: Every few days during the festivalVenue: online at http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/ccn/resources/ Every few days during the Coventry Peace Festival, Coventry Cathedral and the Community of the Cross of Nails will be releasing a short video-interview with some of Coventry’s most eminent theologians and leaders in reconciliation, past and present.Contact: [email protected]
Wednesday 1 November to Tuesday 7 NovemberExhibition of Prayer Flags and Community Project ShowcaseTime: Library opening timesVenue: Foleshill Library, CV6 5BGLaunch event Friday 3 November 6pmAn exhibition of Tibetan Prayer Flags made by Ekta UnityProject and the Glorious Broad Street Project. Visitwww.gloriousbroadstreet.wordpress.com for more information Contact: Michelle - Broad Street Library on 024 7678 6977.
Festival events
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Wednesday 1, Thursday 2, Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 NovemberPeace BoardTime: 3.30pm to 6pmVenue: WATCH Centre, 12 Victoria Street, Hillfields, Coventry CV1 5LZA series of craft workshops bringing young people together to celebrate diversity and peace throughout Hillfields.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.hillzfm.co.uk
Wednesday 1 and Tuesday 7 NovemberOrnaments of PeaceTime: 10am to 12noonVenue: WATCH Centre, 10-12 Victoria St, Hillfields, Coventry. CV1 5LZParticipants will be able to create a beautiful keepsake ornament of peace using a cork frame and various art and craft materials.Contact: Lucia at [email protected] or visitwww.watchcharity.org.uk
Wednesday 1 November, Friday 3 November, Wednesday 8 November and Friday 10 NovemberRadio Peace on Hillz 98.6 FMTime: 11am to 12noonVenue: HillzFM Radio Station, 10-12 Victoria St, Hillfields, Coventry CV1 5LZRadio Peace shows will be broadcast live during the Coventry Peace Festival. A unique opportunity for individuals to express what peace represents through personal views, book readings, poetry, song lyrics and much more.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.hillzfm.co.uk
Thursday 2 NovemberTwo Sided Story followed by Q and A sessionTime: Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm startVenue: Committee Room 2, The Council House, Coventry. CV1 5RRA documentary made by The Parents Circle Families Forum (Bereaved Palestinian and Israeli Families) following 27 Palestinians and Israelis who meet under the frame of a unique project called “History through the human eye”.Contact: [email protected]
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Thursday 2 NovemberCoundon Peace Orchard Community Information EveningTime: 6pm to 7.30pmVenue: Pope Francis Hall, Cardinal Newman, Catholic School and Community College CV6 2FR Presentations and workshops to engage schools, community groups and residents in Peace Orchard planning, site events and developing on-line and on-line resources. Refreshments provided.Contact: www.normandy-day.co.uk
Friday 3 November Women and Peace – Creative ArtsProgramme “Peace Dove”Time: 10am to 12noonVenue: FWT – A Centre for Women. 70-72 Elmsdale Ave, Foleshill, Coventry, CV6 6ESA creative arts workshop for women to express their views on finding peace in their everyday lives using photography, visioning, arts and crafts. Free fairtrade tea and coffee available.Contact: Tirth or Mary on 024 7663 7693 [email protected] or visit www.fwt.org.uk
Friday 3 November The Big KnitTime: 2pm to 5pmVenue: Esquires Coffee shop, Coventry Transport Museum, CV1 1JDWe’ll be knitting basic items for the knit for peace project. The more the merrier! Beginners welcome.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.knitforpeace.org.uk
Friday 3 November Beyond Forgiving: Award winning film on reconciliation plus a discussion with the producerTime: 6pm to 7.30pmVenue: Humber Lecture Theatre, George Eliot Building, Coventry. CV1 5FBPowerful, award winning film followed by a discussion with the executive producer and a worker from peacebuilding and reconciliation projects in Africa.Contact: Philip Brown 024 7671 7275. e-mail [email protected] or visit http://c1.unacov.uk
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Saturday 4 NovemberWeavers’ Workshop: Weave Peace PoppiesTime: 10am to 4pmVenue: Lower Precinct Shopping Centre, CV1 1NQThe Weavers’ Workshop will invite and instruct members of the public on how to weave white and red poppies.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.weaversworkshop.org
Saturday 4 NovemberSongs of Peace and ProtestTime: 9.30am to 12.30pmVenue: Friends’ Meeting House, Hill Street, CV1 4ANCome and learn acapella (unaccompanied) songs of peace and protest. All songs taught by ear, no need to read music. Under 18s welcome but please bring someone with you who is over 18. Workshop: 10am - 11.30am (refreshments from 9.30am) then optional “flash mob” until around 12.30pm.Contact: [email protected]
Saturday 4 November and Saturday 11 NovemberLaunch and Tour of the new Coventry Peace TrailTime: 2pmVenue: Meet at Coventry Cathedral Ruins, CV1 5FBThe newly produced Coventry Peace Trail booklet will be given to participants on the tour who will then be guided on the trail with explanations and history of each site.Contact: Carol Rank, [email protected]
Saturday 4 NovemberCoventry Annual Peace PligrimageTime: 9.30amVenue: Meeting Place, Priory Row, CV1 5EXThe Coventry Annual Peace Pilgrimage promotes and demonstrates harmony and unity between people of different backgrounds. We visit four places of worship on the walk. Please bring a covering for your head.Contact:[email protected] or visit www.coventrymultifaithforum.org/
Sunday 5 NovemberDr BikeTime: 12noon to 2pmVenue: Rose Community Centre, Spon End, CV1 3LHIs your bike in need of some TLC? Bring it to our clinic to bring it back to full health.Contact: 024 7622 1697 www.facebook.com/coventrycyclecentre
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Sunday 5 NovemberA Discussion About Racism: How it is perpetuated and what impact it has on people and societyTime: 1pm to 4pmVenue: Coventry Transport Museum, CV1 1JDCoventry Against Racism invites you to a discussion on racism, its causes, how it is perpetuated and what psychological damage it has on the victims. There will be a panel of speakers.Contact: [email protected] or visitwww.coventryagainstracism.co.uk
Monday 6 NovemberMosaics for AllTime: 5pm to 7pmVenue: St Finbarr’s, 303 Holbrook Lane, CV6 4DGCome and learn to mosaic. We will be making an artwork to be displayed in a public space. Beginners welcome. Contact: Dasi 024 7666 4616 or visithttps://themakingprojectblog.wordpress.com/
Monday 6 November and Monday 13 NovemberInner Peace and RelaxationTime: 5.30pm to 6.30pmVenue: WATCH Centre, 12 Victoria Street, Hillfields, Coventry. CV1 5LZAimed at women, this workshop will develop participants’ relaxation techniques and be a guide through meditation to promote an inner calm, creating a more peaceful mind which will contribute to better health.Contact: [email protected] or visitwww.watchcharity.org.uk
Tuesday 7 NovemberMosaics for AllTime: 1pm to 3pmVenue: Foleshill Library, CV6 5BGCome and learn how to mosaic. We will be making an artwork to be displayed in a public space. Beginners welcome. Contact: Dasi 024 7666 4616 or visithttps://themakingprojectblog.wordpress.com/
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Tuesday 7 NovemberThe Naked Dietitian – Spoken Word PoetryTime: 7pm to 8pmVenue: Friends’ Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry CV1 4ANDrawing on personal experience, and the experiences of those who are marginalised, stigmatised, patronised and blamed, with astonishing lyricism she lays bare the inequities at the root of society and urges people to stem the march of individualism with a rallying cry for compassion and social justice.Contact: [email protected] or visitwww.lucyaphramor.com/poet
Tuesday 7 NovemberPeace in Pregnancy – Breastfeeding Supportfor WomenTime: 10.30am to 12noonVenue: FWT – A Centre for Women. 70-72 Elmsdale Ave, Foleshill, Coventry, CV6 6ESWe are offering a healthy breakfast for pregnant, ethnic minority women with breastfeeding awareness to promote peace in pregnancy. Also card making activity with motivational message to relax pregnant mums.Contact: Pam or Kiran 024 7663 7693. [email protected] or visitwww.fwt.org.uk
Tuesday 7 and Tuesday 14 NovemberRap for PeaceTime: 3pm to 6pmVenue: WATCH Centre, 12 Victoria Street, Hillfields, Coventry CV1 5LZA rap song about peace and reconciliation to promote peace throughout Coventry. It will be broadcast on HillzFM during the Festival. This is a unique, creative opportunity for individuals to have one united message about peace through music and lyric writing.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.hillzfm.co.uk
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Wednesday 8, Thursday 9 and Friday 10 NovemberTrip to Coventry CathedralTime: 3.30pm to 6pmVenue: WATCH Centre, 12 Victoria Street, Hillfields, Coventry. CV1 5LZThis event involves taking young people on a short trip to Coventry Cathedral to informally educate them about the Coventry Blitz.Contact: 024 7655 0564, [email protected] or visit www.hillzfm.co.uk
Wednesday 8 NovemberBalfour TodayTime: 7.30pmVenue: Friends’ Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry, CV1 4AN100 years ago the British government issued it’s Balfour Declaration” which has shaped the Middle East ever since. We are pleased to have Bernard Regan as our main speaker at this event to mark such an important centenary.Contact: Coventry Friends of Palestine Groupwww.facebook.com/Coventry-Friends-of-Palestine-Group-348472765293519/
Wednesday 8 NovemberPoetry for Peace: Coventry – Cork Twin City Poetry ExchangeTime: Doors open 7pm – Readings from 7.30pmVenue: The Royal Oak, Earlsdon, Coventry, CV5 6EJAn evening of poetry and performance ,with special guest readings from Stanley Notte and Ciaran Macartain – two acclaimed Irish poets from Coventry’s twin city of Cork,Republic of Ireland. There will also be open-mic slots available on the evening - with readers and performers encouraged to share their own work on the themes of conflict, peace and resolution. In partnership with O Bheal Poetry, Cork. Contact: Adam Steiner or Andrea Mbarushimana [email protected] or visit www.silhouettepress.co.uk
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Wednesday 8 November Kindful Eating and Body RespectTime: 10am -12noonVenue: Friends’ Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry, CV1 4ANAn engaging and informative workshop that integrates nutrition, compassion and social justice for helping people find peace with food and move away from body shame. Facilitator Lucy Aphramor is recognised internationally for her work advancing compassionate self-care and social justice through nutrition. For anyone with a personal and/or professional interest in exploring new perspectives on food, weight, trauma, and health. Join us to discover how enhancing body respect and making sense of social factors that impact wellbeing are powerful ingredients of the recipe to end the misery of dieting. Cost: £10. Concessions free.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.lucyaphramor.com
Thursday 9 NovemberWomen’s Peace Lunch and Cultural StoriesTime: 12noon - 1.30pmVenue: FWT – A Centre for Women. 70-72 Elmsdale Ave, Foleshill, Coventry. CV6 6ESFWT invite women to be part of a Women’s Lunch and Cultural Stories afternoon – an event for multi-ethnic women. All attendees will be encouraged to share a meal together, make friends, and talk about their different cultures, stories and journeys. Fairtrade tea and coffee available (Free).Contact: Tirth or Mary on 024 7663 769, [email protected] or visitwww.fwt.org.uk
Thursday 9 NovemberCoventry Schools Peace Song SearchTime: 2.30pm to 4.30pmVenue: St Michael’s House, 11 Priory Row, Coventry CV1 5EXCoventry Schools Peace and Justice Forum will launch their search for the Coventry Schools Peace Song on 9 November during Coventry Peace Festival 2017. The composer of the selected song will receive a beautiful digital piano worth over £1,000. Coventry schools are invited to send a delegate to find out more information and register their interest in taking part in the Peace Song Search and also learn about our new resources database to help schools engage students with peace and justice. For more info and to reserve your school’s place: http://bit.ly/covpeacesongContact: 024 7671 7275, [email protected]://bit.ly/covpeacesong
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Friday 10 NovemberPeace in WillenhallTime: 10am to 12 noonVenue: Hagard Community Space, Willenhall, CV3 3DGActivity to take place in the community cafe. Residents encouraged to discuss topical issues and concerns affecting them. Create a warm welcome. Supported by Willenhall Community Forum, the library and St John the Divine church, residents will be able to sit and chat, in a friendly, environment. They can share chat and food whilst talking through their fears and hopes. Library and church staff will be there to facilitate, forum staff will be providing a warm welcome and ensuring that no one is left out and keep the cups full. There will be activites where residents will be creating Peace Doves which will include personal messages and will be hung on trees in the Remembrance Garden.Contact: Geoff Forester on 078 4235 7034 [email protected] or visit www.willenhallcommunityforum.com Friday 10 NovemberThe Art of RecoveryTime: 12noonVenue: The Atrium, Watch Close, Spon St, CV1 3LN The unveiling of new artwork created with Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Patients at the Atrium Centre for Exercise and Health. This event welcomes patients and their friends and family only.Contact: Andrea Mbarushimana, [email protected] or visitwww.andrea-mbarushimana.com
Friday 10 NovemberWomen and Peace –Arts programme “What peace means to you” Time: 10am to 12noonVenue: FWT – A Centre for Women. 70-72 Elmsdale Ave, Foleshill, Coventry. CV6 6ESWe are offering creative arts workshops for women to express their views through creating a peace jigsaw on finding peace in their everyday lives using photography, visioning, arts and crafts. Fairtrade tea and coffee available (free).Contact: Tirth or Mary on 024 7663 7693, [email protected] visit www.fwt.org.uk
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Saturday 11 NovemberWe’re Over 50, Not Over The HillTime: 2pmVenue: Hagard Centre, Remembrance Road, Willenhall, CV3 3DGCoventry’s Over-50s Company, Arts Gymnasium, share with you their experiences of growing up. Find out what else they get up to when they’re not knitting in their rocking chairs in this charming short performance devised together with international movement practitioner Dr. Eline Kieft. This will be followed by an interactive workshop encouraging conversation and understanding of different cultures, ages and abilities and celebrate differences with the local community. Contact: Alice Williams 024 7684 [email protected] or visit www.belgrade.co.uk/take-part/arts-gymnasium/
Saturday 11 NovemberMosaics for AllTime: 10am to 6pmVenue: FARGO Village, Far Gosford St, CV1 5EDCome and learn how to mosaic. We will be making an artwork to be displayed in a public space. Beginners welcome. Part of the Feel Good Festival of Creativity at FARGO.Contact: Dasi on 024 7666 4616https://themakingprojectblog.wordpress.com/
Saturday 11 NovemberDiversity DoodleTime: 10am to 1pmVenue: TBC Diversity Doodle - The chance to doodle and colour in signs, symbols, words and patterns on our giant Diversity Doodle. The whole city can get involved.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.yourturn.org.uk/
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Saturday 11 NovemberSongs of Peace and HealingTime: 9.30am to 12.30pmVenue: Friends’ Meeting House, Hill Street, CV1 4ANWe hear about wars and conflict around the world every day and we long for peace. Come and learn acapella (unaccompanied) songs of peace and healing - for ourselves and for the world - then those who wish to, can take the songs into the city centre for others to hear. All songs taught by ear; no need to read music. Under 18s welcome, but please bring someone over 18 with you. Workshop: 10am-11.30am (refreshments from 9.30am) then optional “flash mob” until around 12.30pm.Contact: [email protected]
Saturday 11 NovemberArming the WorldTime: 11am to 4pmVenue: Locations throughout the city centreIce and Fire bring their latest production into the streets of the city. They examine the British way of providing weapons to our friends, enemies and human rights abusers. The actors mingle with the crowd in a challenging and humorous presentation. Contact: Paul McGowan 024 7667 4495 [email protected]
Saturday 11 NovemberPetals of PeaceTime: 3pm to 5pmVenue: Hope Centre, Hillfields, CV1 5LBWe will provide a fabric artist and storyteller to inspire people of all ages and abilities to create messages of peace on petals of fabric to create their own flowers. Afterwards we will bring all the flowers together to form a carpet of peace flowers, showing that all can be different but like a real flower with its own unique scent and colour, transform a rough banal place into a garden of fragrance and reflection. Contact: 024 7659 8901 or visit www.godiva.uk.com
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Saturday 11 NovemberJ. S. Bach’s B Minor Mass Time: 7.30pmVenue: Coventry Cathedral, CV1 5FBOur 2017 Remembrance concert features Bach’s monumental B Minor Mass. Bach’s initial idea was to create a piece that could be comfortably accepted in both the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions, making the work especially appropriate for Remembrance and the need for peace and reconciliation in the world. It is performed this evening by Coventry Cathedral Chorus, Orchestra Pro Anima and internationally acclaimed soloists under the direction of Paul Leddington Wright.Contact: www.ticketweb.com e-mail: [email protected] www.coventrycathedralchorus.com
Saturday 11 NovemberPoppy Drop in West Orchards Time: 10.45amVenue: West Orchards Shopping Centre, CV1 1QXRemember Armistice Day in the shopping centre. The service willbe held in the yellow corner on level 3. The bugler will sound theLast Post and thousands of poppies will fall from the sky.Contact: 024 7623 1133.
Saturday 11 NovemberPeace Conference Time: 6pmVenue: Broad Street Meeting Hall, CV6 5BGParticipants will present their view about causes of lack of peace in their countries and the possible solutions. We will share music, songs and dances in a friendly and pleasant atmosphere. Refreshments and snacks will be available and everyone will be welcome. Contact: 079 0402 5208.
Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 NovemberHands of HopeTime: 10am to 5pmVenue: CET, (Coventry Evening Telegraph) building CV1 1FPAn interactive photography project, which is a celebration of the resilience, courage and determination of the Palestinian people. Their hands are the subjects because they symbolise the hardship they have witnessed and the hope they carry with them. Our exhibition helps others to extend their hands out to them.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.working-with-villages.com/
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Saturday 11, Sunday 12 and Saturday 18 NovemberHome. BeitTime: 10am to 5pmVenue: CET, (Coventry Evening Telegraph) building, CV1 1FPHome. Beit. What does Home mean to you? Is it where you live or where you are from? Is it your spiritual or ancestral home? Your community or family? Your place of birth or current abode? Working with villages in Palestine, we have curated an exhibition called “Home”. This collection of work contains photographs, drawings, poetry and essays from artists across Palestine and the diaspora, depicting their perception of home.Contact: [email protected] or visit www.working-with-villages.com/
Saturday 11 NovemberListen to the World: Peace Festival Poetry Competition and Award Winners CeremonyTime: 12.30pm to 4pmVenue: Hope Centre, Hillfields, CV1 5LBPeace Festival Poetry competition launched 1 October 2017, with a deadline of 22 October for entries from adults and children. The award ceremony will take place at the Hope Centre on Saturday 11 November with a special afternoon of readings of poems entered for the competition and music and dance celebrating peace across the world.Contact: Colin Scott 007 98632 1820 or [email protected] www.positiveimagesfestival.co.uk
Sunday 12 NovemberRemembrance Service at the War Memorial ParkTime: 10.45am to 12noonVenue: War Memorial Park, CV3 6PTJoin hundreds of people as they commemorate the lives ofthe fallen of the world wars and other conflicts. Contact: 024 7683 3047 or e-mail: [email protected]
Sunday 12 NovemberCommunal Grave ServiceTime: 3pmVenue: London Road Cemetery, CV1 2JTTake the time to remember the civilians who died during the Blitz inCoventry at this annual service.Contact: 024 7683 3047 or e-mail: [email protected]
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Monday 13 NovemberLord Mayor of Coventry’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation: Annual Peace lecture 2017. Paul Oestreicher: Justice and Peace – Can We Have Both?Time: 7pm for 7.30pmVenue: Coventry Cathedral, CV1 5FBPaul Oestreicher is an Anglican priest, Quaker, peace and human rights activist. He is Vice President of CND and former Director of Coventry Cathedral’s Centre for International Reconciliation. Music by the Edsel String Quartet.Contact: David Fish 077 7978 4786. [email protected]
Monday 13 NovemberWomen’s Wellness and Inner Peace WorkshopTime: 10.30am to 12noonVenue: FWT – A Centre for Women. 70-72 Elmsdale Ave, Foleshill, Coventry. CV6 6ESCome along and discover methods for inner peace and calm through meditation and techniques. De-stress and find calm with wellbeing, healthy snacks and herbal teas (free).Contact: Tirth or Mary 024 7663 7693. office@fwt,org.uk or visitwww.fwt.org.uk
Tuesday 14 NovemberPeace in Pregnancy – Safe Sleeping AwarenessTime: 10.30am to 12noonVenue: FWT – A Centre for Women. 70-72 Elmsdale Ave, Foleshill, Coventry. CV6 6ESWe are offering a relaxation activity for pregnant, ethnic minority women. We are also offering a delicious, healthy breakfast to relax pregnant mums and offer awareness of postnatal care including safe sleeping.Contact: Pam or Kiran 024 7663 7693 [email protected] or visitwww.fwt.org.uk
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Post-festival events
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Sunday 19 NovemberCAIF Peace Concert with The Nightingales, the Polish choir Sensa Nome, guest artists and Pru PorrettaTime: 6pmVenue: The Hub, Coventry University, CV1 5FBA concert involving choirs, singing and dancing from in and around the city, including Jacqui Smith Jazz. This concert represents the aspirations of the Coventry Association for International Friendship. Contact: Linda [email protected]
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Post-festival events
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Wednesday 29 NovemberThe Privatisation of Israeli SecurityTime: 7.30pmVenue: Friends’ Meeting House, Hill Street, CV1 4AN‘The Privatisation of Israeli Security’ is a book by Shir Hever, an economic researcher based in Jerusalem, due to be published in November 2017. Shir is on a speaking tour of the UK and we are fortunate to have booked him for this meeting in Coventry. Between 1994-2014, Israel’s security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created it. Contact: Coventry Friends of Palestine Groupwww.facebook.com/Coventry-Friends-of-Palestine-Group-348472765293519/
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For further information, please contact Lee House on 024 7683 2351 or e-mail [email protected] the website for full details of all these events and others that may have been added to the programme.www.coventry.gov.uk/peace /coventrycc @CoventryCC
All events are subject to change and all details are correct at time of going to print (12 October 2017) 17-0792-CB