VT Peace Conference

Join the Peace & Justice Center's annual VT Peace Conference at Old North End Community Center, 20 Allen St. in Burlington. Presented in collaboration with the VT Stands for a World Beyond War Coalition.

PROGRAM:
9:30 to 10:00 AM Registration, Coffee, Exhibits, and Networking
10:00 to 11:00 AM Keynote Presenter: Beata Tsosie-Peña from Tewa Women United
11:15 to 12:15 AM Workshop Session 1
12:15 to 1:15 PM Lunch, Exhibits, and Networking
1:30 to 2:30 PM Workshop Session 2
2:45 to 3:45 PM Workshop Session 3
4:00 to 4:30 PM Closing

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Beata Tsosie-Peña is from Santa Clara Pueblo and El Rito, NM. She is a mother, poet, seed saver, and is certified in infant massage, as an educator and in permaculture design. She is also a Green For All Fellow and has served on several local community boards. The realities of living next to a nuclear weapons complex has called her into environmental health and justice work with the local non-profit organization, Tewa Women United for the last ten years. As part of her work with TWU, she is currently managing the creation of the Española Healing Foods Oasis demonstration garden. www.tewawomenunited.org

CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS: Workshops will be the be the content for the majority of the day. Each one addresses some aspect of what it will take to build a world beyond war. They focus on understanding conflict in different regions of the world, climate justice, nonviolence, racial justice, and more. Please indicate on the registration form all of the workshops you are interested in and someone from the Peace & Justice Programming Team will get back to you about a week before the conference to let you know which programs you have been placed in. We will do our best to get folks into the programs they are most interested in. Some workshops may also have some materials to send out to participants before hand so please be sure to include an accurate e-mail address when you sign-up so you can get that information.

REGISTRATION: Register at https://goo.gl/forms/6TxFbgnB63MJ7rp73. Registration to this conference includes coffee and snacks in the morning AND lunch (catered by Nepali Kitchen) for all participants! We ask that participants contribute $25. People under 25 are not expected to contribute financially. This amount is very low thanks to sponsor organizations and groups, a grant from the Serena Foundation, and individual donors covering the bulk of the conference expenses. It is important to all involved that this program is financially accessible to everyone. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information visit: http://www.pjcvt.org/vt-peace-conference-2018/