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OUR PEACE FESTIVAL 2025

A two-day community collaboration beginning Saturday, September 20 with a multi-generational outdoor classroom led by local community experts, educators, and artists, followed by live whole-group presentations — culminating Sunday, September 21 with our signature round table on housing, food security, and equity in honour of the UN International Day of Peace.

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THEN, ON SEPTEMBER 21 (International Day of Peace)

Join us (11 AM – 3 PM) at the Hill Pavilion for a shared meal, guided conversations, and collective reflection in honour of the UN International Day of Peace. Together, panelists and participants will explore three pressing themes — dignity in housing, permaculture for food security, and equity in education — creating space for deep listening, storytelling, and imagining new paths toward justice and peace.

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PLEASE NOTE:
OUR PEACE FESTIVAL IS AN ALL-AGES INTERACTIVE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE
IN SOLIDARY WITH #EVERYCHILDMATTERS

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Purposeful literacy and numeracy spark creativity, strengthen advocacy for equity, and grow leadership skills across generations — children, youth, adults, and elders.

Explore the Quinte Cultural Innovation Committee installation inside the Hill Pavilion to discover how permaculture ethics — echoing Kindergarten principles of share, care, and play fair — and permaculture principles can guide all community partners in repairing and restoring connections between plants, people, pollinators, and our shared planet (aka. our collective Mother Ship).

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EQUITY . INCLUSION . DECOLONIZATION

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NIA:WEN (SPECIAL THANK YOU) TO BORELSON & DOLO THE GIFTED ---YOUR LIVE PRESENTATION AT OUR PEACE FESTIVAL 2024 WAS WELL LOVED --- SO MUCH FUN. NYA:WEN. THANK YOU.

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COFFEE
QUIZ.
 

​🌍 Community Trivia Challenge:

Question:


Which African country is widely recognized as the birthplace of coffee — one of the world’s most traded commodities and a daily ritual for millions around the world, including right here in Belleville?

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A. Kenya
B. Ghana
C. Ethiopia
D. South Africa

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🕊️ Hint: The answer is tied to a rich cultural heritage and centuries-old farming practices that are often undervalued in global trade.

SIDE HUSTLE MANIFESTO MARKET IS OPEN SAT. SEPT. 20TH, 2025

This marketplace uplifts grassroots entrepreneurs and everyday visionaries building generational wealth and impact through their passion projects while organically fostering Literacy, Numeracy, Life Skills, and Business confidence in every generations.

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BE RECOGNIZED
AS A TURNKEY SPONSOR.

Provincial & Federal level sponsorship packages can also be co-constructed to match your ethics.  

CHECK YOUR EQUITY PULSE:
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CURRENT EVENTS IN COUNTRIES WITH PREDOMINANTLY BLACK/BROWN LIVES LIKE...
CONGO, SUDAN, ETHIOPIA, BANGALADESH, HAITI, & TIGRAY

CHECK THIS OUT: Global Conflict Tracker l Council on Foreign Relations

"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free." - Maya Angelou

NOW LET'S ZOOM IN:
Turtle Island's First Nations communities also continue to struggle for truth, justice, and liberation.
 
The fight for the rights of Indigenous peoples is not only a Canadian issue but a global one. Learn the truth about Canada’s colonial past and present, and discover how your allyship today can help write (right) a just future here & abroad.

FOR IT IS WRITTEN

"Just as we have many parts in ONE body — and all the parts do not have the same function — so we, who are many, are ONE in Christ and everyone parts of one another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace that was given to us.” - Romans 12:4-6

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- WRITING ON THE WALL -

Join us in acknowledging that the nation we know as Canada was and is traditionally home to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people. We are grateful to be orchestrated by the Most High to live, play, learn, and serve with them, on this land, in this time --- for a higher calling and greater purpose. ​

 

Our acknowledgement represents our recognition of this region's longer history, one predating the settlement of the earliest European immigrants. The churches in our country are many. Our direct call-to-action is for churches, institutions, organizations, local businesses and community members to take time this year, to engage in truth and reconcili-action to foster peace and unity for us all; as ONE united race of people.

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We are hue(mans); regardless of our gender, racial, cultural and alternative identities. While Equity, Inclusion and Diversity policies and procedures are essential, real change stems from the heart. We're invite you to observe the bodies of water on our planet -- they collectively reject and transcend imaginary lines of division, labels, and identity they've been assigned and gather into ONE ocean.

 

Similarly, we look forward to pacing towards labels of identity that unify us as humans while honouring and celebrating our similarities and differences to abolish systematic injustice and close equity gaps together as ONE people, sharing ONE planet.

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