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9th Annual Peace Week
 This year’s ninth annual Peace Week celebration will be launched by Mayor Val Schier on Tuesday July 22 at 11:00 am at The Cairns City Library.
On show will be a celebration of stories on the migration experience of our Vietnamese community here in Queensland. This traveling exhibition of work titled Water, Trees and Roots has been sponsored through the State Library of Queensland and Cairns Regional Council and will be on display between July 10 and 30.
Over 10 partner organizations; private, government and non- government community based groups, with the assistance of a number of volunteers, have coordinated 10 community based events, in locations throughout Cairns.
“Cairns Regional Council continues to lead the way as the only Council in Australia to be recognized by the United Nations Educational Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), for supporting the ninth annual Cairns Peace Week celebrations. Cairns joins over thirty other countries around the world holding a wide variety of events; dedicated to celebrating the United Nations International Decade for the Culture of Peace 2000-2010.” Said Cr Cochrane who chairs the Council’s Multicultural Reference Group.
Cairns Regional Council Local Area Multicultural Partnership (LAMP) Officer, Jo Abbatangelo, who is coordinating the event this year, says that although the event receives no direct funding, over the years it has continued to attract considerable sponsorship.
The theme this year is ‘Peace Starts with Self”, the aim is to encourage all of us to examine how we manage conflict in our families, neighborhoods and in places where we congregate. Statement’s such as ‘Act Locally Think Globally’, encapsulates what Peace week 2008 is all about.
As it does every year, Peace Week brings together people from a variety of cultural backgrounds in an atmosphere of social inclusion through the arts.
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