Peace.Isn't.Quiet Festival

Looking for a fun, free way to promote peace? Does recycled art, yoga, or fighting against genocide and discrimination make your day? Then come by this year’s second annual Peace.Isn’t.Quiet Festival from noon to 10 p.m., Sunday, April 13 at The Barn.

Musicians, dancers and poetry performers will be calling for, appreciating and celebrating peace. Musicians and performers will include Doc Baker’s Traveling Musicological Extravaganza, Adrienne Nightingale, the Hip~NotiQs, Three, Miles Lost, Deirdre McCalla, slam poet Andrea Gibson, and Harmonyz with Soul, among many others.

Activities will include yoga, recycled art, button making, a clothing swap/alteration station, coloring, jewelry, voter registration, sidewalk chalk, face and body painting, graffiti, petitions and more. Festival-goers will also be provided with locally-grown and produced foods and goods, as well as free tea.

Classmates, Galina Mukomolova ’09 and Jacquelyn Sands ’09 have been organizing this event since October and encourage all to attend.

The Festival is being organized by Progressive Student Union, PRIDE Alliance, Amnesty International, Student Activists for Darfur, Campus Greens, Sankofa: Black Student Union, HWS Votes, Americans for Informed Democracy, NARAL Pro-Choice New York, the Women’s Collective, Rotoract, the Arts Collective, the Human Rights and Genocide Speaker Series, the Young Memorial Peace Fund and the Caribbean Student Association.

For a full listing of events or questions about the festival, e-mail Jacquelyn.Sands or Galina.Mukomolova.