Community Events & Workshops
The Peace Education Center invites community members to connect for learning, support, and spiritual sustenance.
Coming This Fall
Youth Peacebuilders: Practice Peace trough Play
In a world where conflict often dominates the headlines, it’s important to teach our children the values of peace, kindness, justice, and understanding. Our program offers fun, creative, hands-on activities that introduce the basics of peacebuilding
Storytelling and creative expression to explore peace and justice
Games and group activities that teach cooperation
Collaborative projects that help them appreciate differences, and nurture empathy.
Registration recommended but not required.
A fun and educational program for kids ages 5-10!
Dates and Times: 10:00 AM 11:30 AM
8th November
22nd November
6th December
13th December
Kingston Library, visit their page here
PhotoVoice: An Intergenerational View of Kingston
Photovoice is a learning and research method that involves exploring your neighborhood to observe the conditions and any inequalities you notice in everyday life. Using photographs, participants document aspects of their lives and share them with others. Our sessions will focus on taking photos and sharing stories that inspire the observer to create positive community change.
Photovoice with a peace education lens (ha ha, pun intended) hopes to inspire children, youth, and families to imagine the community they want to live in.
Each session will last about 1-2 hours and include: Overview of Peace Education and Envisioning a Positive Future; walking tour for picture taking; discussion and sharing of photos.
Sessions will be offered at various times throughout the month of July. Feel free to attend more than one. Bring a camera or smartphone. We will also have some digital cameras available for use.
This event is multi-generational: OPEN TO EVERYONE! And FREE!
Dates & Times: TBC
Climate Action Project for Teens
Calling all 14-24 year olds in Ulster County!
We want to empower young people to become agents of change in their communities, particularly addressing climate change and environmental injustice. We’ll explore the science of climate change, environmental injustice, and ways to organize and take action. Plus, we’ll plant a pollinator playground at the YWCA in Kingston!
Potential Workshops Outline:
Session 1: What do we know about Climate Change and Environmental Injustice?
Session 2: The science of climate
Session 3: Planting the garden
Session 4: Dealing with climate grief and our frustration
Session 5: How can we make a difference? Where do we start? Local problems, Local action!
Session 6: Planning for and Creating an Action Team
Plus, when you complete the program, you get seed money to start a club at your school!
Woman in Black
The Peace Education Center invites women and anti-war supporters of all ages to join us on the first Saturday of each month and to be part of the Kingston Women in Black. We meet at Firemen’s Park in Kingston. Special thanks to the founders of this chapter – various women from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills.
Who are Women in Black?
Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. As women experiencing these things in different ways in different regions of the world, we support each other’s movements. An important focus is challenging the militarist policies of our own governments. We are not an organisation, but a means of communicating and a formula for action.
Vigil for Global Peace & Non-Violence
First Saturday of the Month
10:30-11:30 AM
Fireman’s Park Kingston
1 Hurley Ave (across from the CVS)
Activist Circle & Hang
Offering a safe, supportive, and structured space for activists to connect, share experiences, and find solidarity in community.
Open to all activists, organizers, and anyone passionate about making a difference.
Dates:
TBC!
Reading & Discussion: Banned Children’s Picture Books
This Reading and Discussion series will explore depictions of race in children’s picture books that have been banned or challenged. In this series, participants will read 11 children’s picture books that have been banned or challenged because of racial themes. We will also read some short articles about book banning and racial and cultural diversity in children’s literature.
The discussions will be facilitated by Anthony Dandridge, Lecturer in the SUNY New Paltz Black Studies Department, and the Rev. Dr. Leonisa Ardizzone, Founder and Director of the Peace Education Center of the Hudson Valley.
