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 [...]

Posted on Mar 19.10 to Art, Schools, Young People   

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 [...]

Posted on Mar 18.10 to Peace Awards, Uncategorized, media   

[ March 30, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] 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 [...]

Posted on Mar 18.10 to Community, Events, Meeting, Planning, Reflect   

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 [...]

Posted on Mar 14.10 to Peace Awards, awards, celebration   

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 [...]

Posted on Mar 13.10 to Community, Family, Longsight, Moss Side   

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 [...]

Posted on Mar 12.10 to media   

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   

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   

[ March 10, 2010; ] 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 [...]

Posted on Feb 25.10 to Events, Football, Schools, Young People   

[ March 13, 2010; 6:00 pm to 11:30 pm. ] The Outstanding Social Behaviour Awards.

Posted on Feb 24.10 to Community, Events, Manchester, Peace Awards, awards