Event announcement: KW Peace Organizational Pot Luck
Minutes July 20, 2016:
Attendees: Gehan, Eleanor, Sue, Diane, Laura, Roger, Matt, Bob, Emily
- Planning for “Perspectives on Peace: Local Approaches to Positive Change”
- Options for date/venue
- October 1st with St. John’s Kitchen, Stirling, City Hall, or other option
- October 15th with Grebel
- We prefer City Hall, gives a different feel to the event, gives legitimacy. Roger will look into City Hall availability, Bob will inquire about St. John’s and Sue about Stirling as back up options
- There is a $500 a year grant for non-profit groups offered by the city of Kitchener, may be able to use this to cover city hall costs
- Day of schedule
- 9:30 – Meet and greet, coffee, muffins
- 10:00 – Keynote
- 11:00 – Coffee Break
- Use Ten Thousand Villages coffee
- 11:15 – Q&A
- 12:00 – lunch
- Do we want to show a short film? Have prompt questions?
- If anyone finds a good short film let us know
- 1:00 – lightning rounds – probably about 4 rounds of 15ish minutes each
- Reps from each group circulate between tables to talk about their group/answer questions
- Other options would be to have people move or groups speak to the crowd, but we prefer speakers moving
- Maybe begin this sesh with a quick intro to each group so people get a sense of who is there
- 2:30 – Big 4 (thunder round?) Focus on resilience positive concrete outlook on life
- 3:30 – summary and closing
- Insurance
- We probably need insurance for any space we’re going to use. Can we use a participating group’s insurance? Maybe Amnesty if they decide to work with us. Should be ok if we have at least one group helping to organize that’s insured
- Depending on cost of space, we’ll have suggested donations – but we don’t want to bar anyone from participating so no registration fees
- Program – Matt will design. Black and white. Laura can print. Matt will also design a poster.
- We’ll make a registration form directly on the KW Peace site
- Next potluck meeting: August 17th 6pm at Stirling (waiting confirmation from Sue if available)
- Other events:
- Sept 21st is the human peace sign event at City Hall, Kitchener
- Gehan produces the Cross Cultures magazine online – http://www.crosscultures.ca/
- Spiritual Heritage Education Network (SHEN) conference on Sept 24 and 25th “We Are All One: Living Lives in All Inclusiveness” http://spiritualeducation.org/events