UN Peace Day is Wednesday 21 September, 2016 with people around the world and in Melbourne preparing activities promoting, celebrating and bringing awareness to Peace. Australians for Peace once again are working with local and national partners bringing attention to the importance of Peace to us as all as individuals in the City of Melbourne. In the world, in our community, in our homes, and in our hearts..
Download our Peace Tee Project Poster here
The Peace Tree Project
Federation Square
Australians for Peace are proud to present their ‘Peace Tree Project’ to commemorate the UN International Day of Peace.
Set on the steps of Federation Square on Wednesday, September 21, olive trees will line the steps and Australians For Peace (A4P) extends an invitation to the people of Melbourne to write their messages of peace on shipping tags, which will adorn the trees. Each tag will be stamped with a unique Peace Duck drawn by our own Melbourne icon Michael Leunig. The trees will form the beginnings of peace parks to be established in and around Melbourne.
Peace Clowns will provide some extra entertainment the crowds to make this a family friendly event. The event runs from 8AM to 2PM.
St Pauls Cathedral Bells will ring out with the help of the Society of Bell Ringers at 12 noon on World Peace Day.
Peace Bells send a clear message. The message is addressed to all humanity. Peace is precious.
St Pauls Cathedral has one of the few peals of thirteen bells outside the British Isles. The bells were donated by Mr Thomas Dyer Edwardes, whose father had been a landowner in Victoria. The bells were cast in 1889 by the Mears and Stainbank foundry at Whitechapel, London. The total weight of 7 tons 3 cwt made them the heaviest ring from that foundry in the 19th Century and is the world's second oldest complete ring of 12 bells.
UN Peace Day 2015 Partnerships and friends - activities in Melbourne
For further information on any of the activities below, please click on the logos or titles.
UN International Peace Day
The 70th anniversary of the United Nations is a timely opportunity to highlight its many and enduring achievements -- and to strengthen our collective resolve to do more to promote peace and security, s...
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Wake up for Peace - your peace - our peace - world peace. On the UN International Day of Peace, join individuals from all walks of life to create silent, powerful intentions of peace and goodwill - on one day, for one purpose - as one community.
7.45am - 8.30am, September 21st, 2015 Melbourne - Australia - Deakin Edge, Federation Square |
Peace Cast TV
Streaming for 48 Hours on Peace Day
Starts: Sunday, Sept 20, 8:00 am EST (Miami, FL)
Ends: Tuesday, Sept 22, 6:00 am EST (Miami, FL)
Streaming for 48 Hours on Peace Day
Starts: Sunday, Sept 20, 8:00 am EST (Miami, FL)
Ends: Tuesday, Sept 22, 6:00 am EST (Miami, FL)
The Chania Olive Tree Project 2017
The United Nations Association of Australia UN Peace Program, though the Greek consul-General Stavros Kyrimis and the Mayor of Chania Melandrakis Ioannis, have initiated arrangements to acquire a grafted plant from the oldest know olive tree in the world, the 3,000 year old olive in Chania, Crete.
The United Nations Association of Australia UN Peace Program, though the Greek consul-General Stavros Kyrimis and the Mayor of Chania Melandrakis Ioannis, have initiated arrangements to acquire a grafted plant from the oldest know olive tree in the world, the 3,000 year old olive in Chania, Crete.
