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Another brilliant PeaceWeek Schools Showcase today at Zion Arts featured young people from 13 schools. Over two shows, they sung, danced, rapped and smiled as they showed each other and many guests what they had been working at and creating on the theme of ‘Peace in the Mix’. Organised by Natalie Teniola, director of ABC Collectables, artists Ali Gadema (theatre hip hop), Dahlia Francis (dance), Nikky Horton (drama) and Mark McKenzie (singing), led creative workshops in the schools for four weeks leading up to PeaceWeek.  Today we saw the fruits of the hard work and talent of the artists and the children, showing once again just how much life and positive energy there is in this area and its young people. (Photo shows Ali Gadema aka Frisko introducing the afternoon show)
Posted on Mar 19.10 to Art, Schools, Young People Add Comment »
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 News reports on PeaceWeek.
Launch Event. “Peace Week gets underway”. Manchester Evening News, Tuesday March 9.
Nims Obunge. “Missionary brings peace message to Manchester”. MEN, Friday March 12.
The OSBAs. “Salute to ASBO girl who turned life around”. MEN, Monday March 15. There is also a gallery of photos from the OSBAs on the MEN website here.
The Evening News also had photographers at the Lantern Parade but that article (if there was one one?) does not seem to be online. If anyone can send a copy, or knows of other articles or coverage, let us know.
Posted on Mar 18.10 to Peace Awards, Uncategorized, media Add Comment »
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A meeting to review PeaceWeek 2010 will be held on March 30, 10am-12noon at The Millennium PowerHouse, Raby Street, Moss Side. Come along and give your views on what was good, what could have been better, and maybe some ideas for next time. Constructive criticism welcome, but with this warning: As PeaceWeek is about us all joining in, any “why didn’t you do x?” comments may be answered with “why didn’t YOU do x?” !!!
Posted on Mar 18.10 to Community, Events, Meeting, Planning, Reflect Add Comment »
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The third Manchester Peace Awards - the OSBAs - took place tonight at the Ramada Piccadilly hotel in the city centre. The Outstanding Social Behaviour Awards recognise and celebrate individuals from the community who work for peace and for the benefit of young people, or who have made personal progress. It was a glittering occasion with over 200 guests, including the Lord Mayor Cllr. Alison Firth, Tony Lloyd MP, The High Sheriff of Manchester Christian Wewer and GMP Chief Constable Peter Fahy, all there to honour the finalists and winners of the 6 awards. A special award was also given by Carisma and the High Sheriff to Helen Gatenby, Director of the M13 Youth Project for “Outstanding Service to Young People”. Photos will be added soon here and at the OSBA website.
Posted on Mar 14.10 to Peace Awards, awards, celebration Add Comment »
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 The Lantern Parade for Peace last night was a great success, despite a few hiccups (like lack of lanterns for Longsight!). Once again, we had dry weather. The two marches converged on Whitworth Park from Moss Side and Longsight, led by samba bands and attracting loads of interest and positive comments. In the park we watched the release of lots of colourful Chinese lanterns, which were a lovely sight as they floated up into the early evening sky. Then off to Manchester Academy for soup and snacks and drinks and encouraging remarks from Tony Lloyd MP. Great fun! More photos here.
Posted on Mar 13.10 to Community, Family, Longsight, Moss Side Add Comment »
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PeaceWeek has been featured in the Manchester Evening News (see one of the articles here), Granada News, and the BBC Radio Manchester Breakfast programme. Further coverage is planned for the Lantern Parade and OSBAs. On Sunday 14th there is an interview with Rev Nims Obunge on “Sunday Breakfast”, from about 7.50am. Nims was the guest speaker at several events earlier in PeaceWeek.
Posted on Mar 12.10 to media Add Comment »
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 The PeaceWeek 2010 Launch event was a brilliant evening, a real success. Lots of young people and their parents turned out. Great acts, lots of fun, and one or two surprises. More photos here.
Posted on Mar 07.10 to Community, Family, Music, Young People Add Comment »
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 The final PeaceWeek 2010 planning meeting will be on Thursday March 4, 10am at the Millennium Powerhouse, 140 Raby Street, Moss Side (NOT the Amani Centre). As always, everyone welcome. Final details, last-minute stuff… The culmination of a lot of hard work!
Posted on Mar 03.10 to Meeting, Planning, Uncategorized, programme Add Comment »
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 The WearPeace project stems from an existing relationship between the School of Art and Design, CARISMA (Community Alliance for Renewal Inner South Manchester Area) and the Police’s Xcalibre Task force looking at ways to change people’s perceptions and attitudes towards guns.
The aim of the WearPeace Project is to create a range of clothing and accessories under the WearPeace label that can sold locally/ nationally / international to promote the “save a life not take a life’ message. It is envisaged that all the clothes / accessories will contain a small quantity of decommissioned gun metal or metal from an unused bullet – as designer tags or fashion details, to reinforce the message of every garment purchased will help to take another gun out of circulation.
Check out some of the designs at the WearPeace blogsite.
We are planning to showcase some of the fashion work done so far with pupils from Cedar Mount, Trinity and Whalley Range Schools at this year’s OSBAs on March 13.
Posted on Feb 26.10 to Resource, Schools, design, fashion, partnership Add Comment »
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 First Transport and Greater Manchester Police have invited Primary 6 pupils from eight schools in the Cheetham Hill area to take part in a football tournament at the Maccabi Centre on Wednesday 10th March 2010. This is the second tournament that has been put on and we hope to repeat it every year and expand the number of schools involved.
On Thursday 11th March and Friday 12th March 2010 Police Officers from the Neighbourhood Engagement Team and First Group will visit all of the schools to give a brief educational talk about safety and the consequences of anti social behaviour on public transport, present trophies to all teams and football boots to the winning team. More info: 234 3388.
Posted on Feb 25.10 to Events, Football, Schools, Young People Add Comment »
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