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A PATH FOR PEACE

Saturday, April 19, 2008
A Free Community Arts Event

Please join us at this community gathering to build peace, and walk our sand labyrinth on the beach. We believe that together, we can build the energy of peace and goodwill at all levels of our lives – from the personal to the global.

And so we invite everyone, to join this free meditation and celebration.

Learn about and walk a large, heart-shaped sand mound labyrinth that has been designed for this event by Labyrinth Builder/Artist Annemarie Rawlinson. Enjoy the wonderful meditation of a guided walk by the ocean.

Hear about the Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace – Special guests Tory Haslinger, Campaign State Co-coordinator for the greater L.A. area, and Nicole Nabulsi, Student Peace Alliance National High School Coordinator, will speak at the welcome ceremony.

For more information about both HR 808 (the legislation currently in Congress that formally proposes the establishment of a Dept of Peace) and the grassroots movement of citizens that is behind this idea, please visit www.ThePeaceAlliance.org.
(Info at http://www.thepeacealliance.org/)

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

1:00 pm
Welcome Ceremony

1:00 – 3:00 pm
Labyrinth Walk and Peace Celebration
Everyone is welcome!

3:15 pm
Children's Labyrinth Walk
(For more information–see below)

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On the beach –
North of the Hermosa Beach Pier

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SPECIAL EVENT at A PATH FOR PEACE

The Children’s Labyrinth Walk
April 19, 2008
3:15 pm

Because of the great interest from people with children, we will have a special children’s walk/dance through the labyrinth at the conclusion of the event, at 3:15 pm on April 19th. After the meditative portion of this walk, our special guest dancers will lead the children into a break out of playful dance and movement, allowing the peaceful energy we have built to release into the sky! Oh yes! This will, also, for practical purposes help us to restore the beach to its original condition, by moving the sand back into “place.”

Adults will not be excluded from the dancing and joyful play, but our focus will be on the children!

If you are planning to bring a large group of children, please let us know by emailing the Organizing Committee at sakada@geniusworkcoaching.com.

Annemarie Rawlinson and the Labyrinth

Labyrinth Builder/Artist Annemarie Rawlinson trained with Dr. Lauren Artress in 1998 and is a certified labyrinth presenter. Over the years, she has lectured widely, in presentations that cover both the historical roots and contemporary uses of the labyrinth. Annemarie has also built multiple labyrinths in the greater Los Angeles area. She founded "Friends of the Labyrinth,” a group that built a Cretan labyrinth at Angel’s Gate Park in San Pedro. In 2003, Annemarie brought a permanent labyrinth to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA, where she and Christine Esprabens conduct monthly labyrinth walks and presentations for the hospital staff.

Annemarie's new heart-shaped labyrinth design for A PATH FOR PEACE is significant in many ways. From the design point of view, the labyrinth leads the walker to the center, the heart of the heart, then straight out in a new direction. This metaphor for our path for peace shows us that while the journey to the center of our heart, individually and collectively, is one that we can easily choose and follow, once opened to that heart energy, it is also a simple path out, into a new reality of peace.

Furthermore, the tradition of labyrinth building is to use existing patterns, many created over thousands of years ago. And so, in creating this labyrinth, with the cause of peace at its roots, Annemarie breaks new ground!

This labyrinth then fits in perfectly with the heart of this event, and inspires us all, in this City of Angels, to open our hearts, and, as Annemarie has done so beautifully, create A PATH FOR PEACE.

A PATH FOR PEACE T-Shirts Are Available

We have two t-shirt designs for A PATH FOR PEACE on zazzle.com
Both feature the heart shaped labyrinth design of Annemarie Rawlinson.

All proceeds go to the Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace.

Please choose your t-shirt style and color and note that the design size can be changed and the location moved, according to the style you choose. A whole new way to do event t-shirts! Oh yes!

There is some shipping time involved, so if you are interested in a t-shirt, order soon.

T-Shirt #1

A PATH FOR PEACE T-ShirtbyGeniusWork
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T-shirt #2

A PATH FOR PEACE T-Shirt - Small logobyGeniusWork
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