Hamilton & Burlington – Upcoming Events

 

WEDNESDAY APRIL 11,

2007

7:30 P.M.

IDEA BURLINGTON PRESENTS:

STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING

The school sisters of Notre dame will present a FREE interactive workshop on the sexual exploitation of women and children

4 MILLION PERSONS ARE TRAFFICKED INTO SLAVERY EVERY YEAR,

25-30% ARE CHILDREN; COME AND FIND OUT WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

NOTRE DAME CONVENT 1921 SNAKE ROAD

WATERDOWN, ON L0R 2H0.

DIRECTIONS: Take Highway 5 (Dundas Rd) to Waterdown. In Waterdown, turn right onto Main St. off Highway 5 (the Royal Bank is on the right). Drive to the end of Main St. and then turn left to go over the bridge. At the stop sign keep to the right. You are now on Snake Rd. The SSND Motherhouse is on the left. Parking is located in the Visitor Area or behind the building.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

7:00pm

The Centre for Peace Studies

McMaster University

presents

The Tenth Annual

MAHATMA GANDHI

Lecture on Nonviolence

Satish Kumar

Health Sciences Centre, Room HSC-1A1

MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

Reception to follow the lecture in the Ewart Angus Centre Foyer

Open to the public

When he was nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced

the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of

Jain monks. At the age of 18, he became a campaigner

for land reform, working to turn Gandhi’s vision of a

renewed India and a peaceful world into reality.

Since the 1970s, he has been the guiding spirit behind

a number of ecological, spiritual and educational

ventures in Britain. For over 30 years, he has been

Editor of Resurgence magazine. He has also served as

Programme Director of Schumacher College – an

international centre for the study of ecological and

spiritual values – since its founding in 1991.

The author of such works as the autobiographical No

Destination and, most recently, The Buddha and the Terrorist,

Satish Kumar was presented with the Jamnalal Bajaj

International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values

Abroad in 2001.

Gandhi in the Age of Climate Change

Admission is free

WEDNESDAY APRIL 25^TH

7:00 P.M.

Hamilton Chapter of the Working Group for the Federal Department of Peace.

Endorsed by the United Nations Association in Canada (Hamilton Branch), the Hamilton Culture of Peace Network, and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Anyone interested in exploring the matter further is invited to attend the next meeting to be held on at the Meeting House, 7 Butty Place, Hamilton.

The Canadian Department of Peace website is: www.departmentofpeace.ca

 

Sunday April 29, 2007

2-4:30 pm

The Hamilton Interfaith Group and IDEA Burlington present an interfaith panel to illuminate

THE GREEN RULE

DO UNTO THE EARTH AS YOU WOULD HAVE IT DO UNTO YOU

Buddhist, Christian and First Nations Perspectives on Faith and Ecology

Come share YOUR faith’s perspective on the earth!

Quaker Meeting House, 7 Butty Place

off Lower Horning Rd. in West Hamilton

Speakers: Walter Cooke (First Nations),

Ted Reeve (Christian),

Dave Gould (Buddhist).

Opportunity for discussions in small groups

Refreshments

O Great Spirit…help us learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

Native American Prayer

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man. Acts17:24

Cut down the forest of desire, not the forest of trees.

The Buddha, Dhammapada 283