Members of the DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition (DPTJC) and others
will hold a "honk for peace" rally from 2:00-3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March
15, in Glen Ellyn. It will take place along Roosevelt Road in front of
Trader Joe's (680 Roosevelt Rd).
Please join us with signs and banners calling on motorists to "honk for
peace" in support of ending the U.S. occupation of Iraq and bringing the
U.S. troops home now.
And please remember that we have "honk for peace" rallies on the third
Sunday of every month.
New Classic Singers concert to spread a message for peace
http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=277247<http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=277247>
New Classic Singers will continue its 27th concert season this weekend with "Circles of Peace," a hopeful and joyous concert with a peaceful message.
The celebration of music on Sunday, March 15, will be conducted by chorus founder and music director Lee R. Kesselman, with accompaniment by William Buhr on the keyboard. The concert also will feature renowned Zen painter and peace activist Kazuaki Tanahashi, who will create unique works of art as the music is performed.
"He is quite amazing in many different ways," Kesselman said. "He's a foremost Zen scholar and translator of Zen Buddhism, a teacher of the old style calligraphy, and he's a very famous painter.
"He'll be painting in real time. That style of Zen painting uses very few strokes."
The art will be for sale after the concert, with proceeds going to A World Without Armies, a charity that seeks demilitarization of nations with a focus on peacemaking.
Kesselman said the art will be priced to sell.
"Compared to his other works of art, these will be a steal," he said. "We're going to make this happen in a way that we will have no paintings left."
The tie-in of peace is a timely one, Kesselman said, and a recurrent one for the New Classic Singers.
"It is always the right time to talk about peace," he said. "But especially now, with our country fighting two wars."
Begun in 1982, the New Classic Singers is a choral ensemble that boasts some of the best choral talent from all over the Chicago area. Members include soloists, educators and conductors. The programs often have a peace theme and have attracted a loyal following.
"Circles of Peace" will include music from such composers as Alice Parker, Herbert Howells and Kirke Mechem. Also performed will be music on Buddhist themes, Japanese folk music, music about circles and Japanese composer Hirayoshi Takekuni's piece, "When the Skies Lost Small Birds."
The concert also will feature the premiere of "Sensoo," composed by Kesselman after he visited Hiroshima in 2005. The words of Pope John Paul II provided the creative catalyst to write the piece.
Kesselman had traveled to Kyoto, Japan, in 2005 to attend the World Symposium of Choral Music. His trip coincided with the 60th anniversary of the bomb blast and he decided to visit Hiroshima, he said.
He described an atmosphere that belied the grim history at Peace Park, the epicenter of the bomb blast.
"People had gathered from all around the world. There was a sense of rebirth," he recalled. "People were there to talk about peace in a place where so many people had died."
Just as doves were released, commemorating the moment of the bomb blast, Kesselman saw the words of the pontiff, an excerpt of one of his 1981 speeches, written in English before him on the program:" War is the work of human beings. War is the destruction of human life. War is death."
"It's an anti-war message," Kesselman said. "I was there and inspired to write."
Sensoo is a setting of a Japanese translation of those words.
"Circles of Peace" begins at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 15, at McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn.
For ticket information, visit atthemac.org or call (630) 942-4000. Tickets are available at the arts center ticket office. To view the art and works of Zen painter Kazuaki Tanahashi, visit brushmind.net<http://www.brushmind.net/>.
League of Women Voters Candidates' Forum
Sunday, March 22, 2009
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Hadley Junior High School
Candidate Forum at COD March 31st
SRC 2800 March 31
3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Doors open at 3 p.m.
An informal reception and hors d'ouevres follow until 7 p.m.
The forum is sponsored by CODAA, the CPA, and the Student Leadership Council
SPRING DAWN MEETING TUESDAY MARCH 31st
Join us for the first DAWN meeting of 2009!
We'll discuss and try to make sense of the current state of affairs at COD
Invited are those close to the situation including attorney Shawn Collins, who will explain the facts of the explosive court case that was recently dismissed .
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=273046&src=1<about:blank>
POLLWATCHERS
Get your credentials! I'll have them that night!
You know who you are!
Tuesday March 31st
Glen Ellyn Public Library
400 Duane St.
Glen Ellyn IL 60137
1st Floor Meeting Room
7:30 pm - 9pm
( next meeting will be in June)
ABSENTEE BALLOTS AVAILABLE NOW:
Call and get your absentee ballot for the April 7th election:
http://www.dupageelections.com/pages.asp?pageid=229<http://www.dupageelections.com/pages.asp?pageid=229>
EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS HERE:
http://www.dupageelections.com/pages.asp?pageid=1130<http://www.dupageelections.com/pages.asp?pageid=1130>
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