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Peace
Day
BULGARIA
All
United Nations member countries agreed to celebrate September 21, The
International Day of Peace as a Global Ceasefire and Day of Peace &
Nonviolence in our homes, our communities and between nations. Peace
Day has been a focal point for community-uniting and peace-inspiring
events since its inception in 1981.
Together we can create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world,
one heart, one family, one community at a time. Join the Countdown To
Peace and help inspire your community to create humanity's first day
of peace, ever.
YOU
CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
- Ask
your favorite organization, group or religious institution to support
the International Day of Peace
- Plan or attend a Peace Day Event in
your community (scheduled events include concerts, parades, marches,
fasts, conferences, festivals, gatherings, service projects, ceremonies,
children's activities such as peace art & essay contests and pinwheels
for peace, Peace Day parties and peace vigils)
- Ask
your Mayor, City Council, Governor and Head of State to declare a Proclamation
of Peace
- Print
out Flyers, Posters and other Resources
SOFIA
United Nations Youth Association of Bulgaria
Service For Peace
Contact: Diana Vaptzarova
Email: didunski@yahoo.com
Web: www.una-bg.org
EVENT: The
International Day of Peace will be marked with a public celebration,
organized by the United Nations Youth Association of Bulgaria, the
Bulgarian Volunteer Association, “Zaedno – interaction for support
and development”, CVS – Civil Voluntary Service and Ecological Association
“Za Zemiata.”
The young and enthusiastic volunteers of the mentioned youth organizations
undertake the initiative to mobilize all peace-loving people in
Bulgaria’s capital to mark the International Day of Peace, to come
out of their homes and express their commitment to create a better
and more peaceful world, to contribute to the end of world conflicts
by simply being there and celebrating the International Day of Peace.
The Peace Day will be celebrated in an atmosphere of cheerful mood
and lots of smiles, together with the children of Bulgaria.
The happening will take place in Sofia’s South Park starting from
5 p.m. on September 21st, 2006. There will be an interactive artistic
program, which includes:
• Greetings from officials, • Releasing hundreds of while doves,
• Dance for Peace, • Chalk drawings on the ground, • Performances
from a variety of groups: Ensemble Gotse Gelchev, Youth Theater
Group Vrabcheta, and also university and school students, including
children from a local orphanage, • Open-air karaoke, • Interactive
program involving children from the audience and including a variety
of workshops: building a Town of Peace made of cardboard boxes,
Pantomime improvisation, eco-drawings, tricks, etc. • Refreshments
will be served.
For more details, please contact Diana Vaptzarova at didunski@yahoo.com.
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SOPHIA
Stoyanov, Stoyan; Sophia: I will be organising an EARTHDANCE
event. Earthdance is the largest global synchronized music and dance
event for peace in the world. It happens on Saturday Sept. 16, 2006
and acts as a kickoff event for the International Day of Peace on
Sept 21. Earthdance Events range from small private parties to large
weekend festivals! More details to follow. Visit www.earthdance.org
to find the events closest to you...
More Peace One Day Committments:
http://www.peaceoneday.org/page/unite |
 VRATZA
Hristo Botev Secondary School
Email: hrbotev@mail.bg
http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm
EVENT: We
will plant 20 trees in the school yard and will plant 51 pinwheels
for peace with poems, written by our students and messages for peace.
Students will sing songs for peace-'God bless the planet Earth',
'Hi and hoe' and other Bulgarian songs. We will show to
our guest and the world that we care and together we can help the
Earth to survive. |
 VRATZA
PINWHEELS
FOR PEACE
confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated
last year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace
Day, creating and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to
inspire their communities to imagine whirled peace - This year many
more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
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PEACE
DAY ARCHIVE
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BULGARIA
2005- Young Bulgarian musicians have
united their efforts to create a special song devoted to Peace Day.
The song “Your world”, music by Slavi Nikolov (B. T. R.), lyrics
by Martin Karnulovski and performed by Maya Jordanova and the bands
“Sky”, “Dekor”, “Frontero”, “Free Style” and “Sameira”, is broadcasted
and spreads the peace messages from 21 September on. (www.undp.bg/en/peace_day2005.php) |
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SOFIA,
BULGARIA
2004- United Nations Development
Programme and the Bulgarian Ministry of Youth and Sports organized
a demonstration football match for Peace Day with Bulgarian journalists
and TV news personalities and musicians and national team footballers,
followed by a large pop and rock concert featuring major Bulgarian
headliners at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in support of a
more peaceful and secure world.
(www.undp.bg/en/int_peace_day2004.php) |
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Peace
Day SUPPORTERS
Please
ask your favorite group, organization or religious institution to support
The International Day of Peace
(*The
opinions of these organizations are their own.
Pathways To Peace and The International Day of Peace NGO Committee at
the UN
do not necessarily support the views expressed by these organizations
that support the International Day of Peace.)
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a Peace Day event? Have a Peace Day event photo to share?
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