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- SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2024
Location: All over the Greater Lansing area! (see map/list of addresses)
Who: Anyone, any age, anyone interested in a fun challenge!
About: Walk, drive, or bike in pursuit of as many Greater Lansing peace poles as you are able. Once you have found and photographed at least 10 peace poles with you in each photo and posted them on your Facebook page, submit the form by clicking here. (For kids of age 10 and below, 5 poles is the minimum goal). For more details click here.
Cost: Free
- SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2024
Event: Buff City Soap Celebrates Greater Lansing PeaceQuest 2024
Location: 3490 Okemos Rd., Okemos, MI 48864
Who: Anyone who would like a pleasant and peaceful treat
About: For the month of September, Buff City Soap would like to offer anyone who mentions PeaceQuest a free laundry soap sample in our Good Morning scent, named “PeaceQuest” for September! Also, pick up a peace-themed coloring sheet that features both Buff City Soap & PeaceQuest images. Completed coloring pages may be placed in our windows to be enjoyed by our guests and bring recognition to PeaceQuest Greater Lansing and the UN International Day of Peace (September 21.)
Host: Buff City Soap
Cost: Free
Website: https://buffcitysoap.com/
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Event: Peace Vigil
Location: In front of the Michigan State Capitol Building, 110 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing
Time: Noon-1:00 p.m.
Who: All are welcomed
Cost: Free
Hosts: Lansing area people interested in keeping the importance of peace building in our consciousness. Initiated by GLNAWI (Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice.) Plant Justice Grow Peace joined the Friday Peace Vigils in June 2023.
About: We have gathered every Friday since Sept 11, 2001 to promote peace. Bring peace related signs if you would like. Signs are also provided.
- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Event: Sing Out for Peace! A Sing-along and Concert for All!
Time: 6:30 PM
About: Come together to sing or just to listen.
There will be songs that inspire peace, some that you know and some that are new.
Some lively, some calm.
Musicians to date include LeRoy Harvey, Matt Bliton, and Harmony Strummers- with Nan Barone, Julie Freije, Connie Page, and Marge Pestka.
Host: Fellowship for Today https://www.fellowshipfortoday.org/
Location: Red Cedar Friends Building, Old Town, Lansing https://redcedarfriends.org/
Address: 1400 Turner Street, Lansing 48906
Who: All are welcome – bring your families and friends!
Cost: Free
Flyer: Sing-out-for-peace.png
- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Event: Culver’s Donate While You Dine! – Fundraiser for UNICEF!
* Help send emergency relief to children around the world!
Location: Culver’s, 3440 Okemos Rd., Okemos, MI
Time: 5pm–9pm
About: Online Ordering, Drive-Thru, or Dine-In (no flyer or code needed)
Go to Culvers.com to order online. The more sales, the larger the donation from Culver’s!
Hosts: GL-UNA and PeaceQuest 2024
Website: https://www.culvers.com/restaurants/okemos-mi-okemos-rd
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Event: Peace Vigil
Location: In front of the Michigan State Capitol Building, 110 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing
Time: Noon-1:00 p.m.
Who: All are welcomed
Cost: Free
Hosts: Lansing area people interested in keeping the importance of peace building in our consciousness. Initiated by GLNAWI (Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice.) Plant Justice Grow Peace joined the Friday Peace Vigils in June 2023.
About: We have gathered every Friday since Sept 11, 2001 to promote peace. Bring peace related signs if you would like. Signs are also provided.
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Event: An Outdoor Story Walk
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
About: Walk along the large posters of the pages of a book called The Great Labne Trade.
This story shows children that their own traditions, though different from others, can
be great! It promotes literacy, physical activity, inclusivity, and entreprenuerism.
Who: All are welcomed. Children and adults will especially like sharing this event!
Host: Edgewood United Church
Cost: Free
Location: Outside of Edgewood United Church
469 North Hagadorn, East Lansing
Summary of story: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71549947-the-great-labne-trade
More info: * Note that this Story Walk will also be available on August 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
during the church rummage sale (to which all are welcomed) during same hours.
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
Followed by Peace Action (11am – 11:30 am) three petitions for Peace & Justice offered for all to consider signing:
· To Pres Biden and CEOs of Pfizer & Moderna: With few Africans getting Covid vaccines, temporarily relax U.S. vaccine patents on key global pandemic diseases so the 121 pharma companies in Africa and the Global South that can manufacture their own.
· To Michigan’s Senators and Representatives: Vote to pay the more than $1 billion overdue dues for UN Peacekeeping that is holding up the UN’s dealing with violent disorders worldwide.
· To Michigan’s Senators and Representatives: To comply with the U.S. Leahy and Humanitarian Corridor laws and the advice of UN experts, halt shipments of munitions to Israel.
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Event: Culver’s Donate While You Dine!- Fundraiser for Friends of CROP – Greater Lansing CROP Hunger Walk
* Support the Walk that raises funds to alleviate hunger and poverty! *
Time: 5 pm – 9 pm
About: Online Ordering, Drive-Thru, or Dine-In (no flyer or code needed)
Location: 5140 Times Square Dr., Okemos, MI (www.culvers.com/restaurants/okemos)
Hosts: Members of Friends of CROP – Greater Lansing CROP Hunger Walk Planning Team
Flyer: Friends of CROP Hunger Walk (Culver’s Share Night)
- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Event: Gun Violence Prevention Forum
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m
About: Hear Maya Manuel from End Gun Violence Michigan speak, sharing her passion to end gun violence.
Host: Spirit of Peace Church of the Brethren in East Lansing, MI
Who: All are welcomed.
Cost: Free
Location: Chapel in the Wesley Wing of the University United Methodist Church, 1118 S. Harrison Road, East Lansing, MI (North entrance from parking lot)
- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Event: Yoga For Peace with Shiloh
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Peoples Yoga Studio,1146 South Washington, Lansing
About: This all-level flow class will guide us through a session of yoga that plants seeds of peace within. Arrive at 5:45 pm to check in and get settled. Yoga mats are available if you need one. Parking is available on the streets and the back of the building. Entrance is in the front.
Registration Link: Registration required. Go to https://peoplesyogastudio.com/practice, click on “full calendar” rectangle. Go to September 18, scroll to “peace quest – Free Peace Quest with Shiloh” and “Book.”
Who: All are welcome. (Age consideration: must be able to maintain interest for the full hour without causing distraction to the other participants.)
Fee: Free
- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Event: Suicide Prevention and Extreme Risk Protection Order Panel
Time: 7:00 pm
About: Join End Gun Violence Michigan for a Suicide Prevention Month Webinar. The majority of Michigan’s gun deaths are suicides, more than 700 per year. Michigan’s new gun safety laws provide important tools to address this crisis. We’ll discuss general background on suicide and suicide prevention, as well as how to use the new extreme risk protection order law to temporarily disarm someone who is in crisis.
Speakers:
Stephen Oliphant, University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Celeste Kanpurwala, Washtenaw Alive
Ian Perry, American Federation for the Prevention of Suicide
Moderator: Yolanda White
Host: End Gun Violence Michigan
Who: All are welcome.
Cost: Free
Location: In Zoom. RSVP using the link below and you will be sent a Zoom link
https://forms.gle/oRABcUynzwVG5vra7
Website: For more information, visit End Gun Violence Michigan: https://www.endgunviolencemi.org/
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
will be permanently “planted” on the MSU campus. Representatives
of each language will participate, musicians will perform, and the pole
will be placed into the ground.
Parking: There are parking lots across the street from the international center and stadium north. https://parking.msu.edu/visitor-parking
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Event: Peace Vigil
Location: In front of the Michigan State Capitol Building, 110 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing
Time: Noon-1:00 p.m.
Who: All are welcomed
Cost: Free
Hosts: Lansing area people interested in keeping the importance of peace building in our consciousness. Initiated by GLNAWI (Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice.) Plant Justice Grow Peace joined the Friday Peace Vigils in June 2023.
About: We have gathered every Friday since Sept 11, 2001 to promote peace. Bring peace related signs if you would like. Signs are also provided.
- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Event: A PEACE-ful Potluck Picnic – Sharing of foods, conversations, music, games, peace coloring sheets and more!
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
About: We will gather to share foods, play games, converse together. 1:00p.m. to 3 p.m. eat together. Games and conversation continue until 4:00 p.m.
Host: Peace Education Center
Location: Lake Lansing Park NORTH – Sandhill pavilion, which is located in a wooded/shaded area. Take the first right past the gate house and follow to the end of the parking area – the shelter lies down a hill around 20 yards away. ADA parking and access to the shelter is located in front of the playground. Several ADA upgrades have been installed including parking spots, sidewalks, and restrooms. A parking fee of $3 (Ingham County residents) $5 (non-residents) is collected at a gatehouse
Address: 6260 East Lake Drive, Haslett, MI 48840
Who: All are welcome – bring your families and friends!
Cost: Bring a good-sized dish to share. Foods shared by your cultures and traditions are welcomed.
- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Event: ELECTRONICS* RECYCLING DAY (*and more!)
Location: Meridian Mall (between JC Penney & Farmers Market), 1982 W Grand River Ave, Okemos, MI 48864
Time: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Who: All are welcomed
Cost: Free except for a required $20 donation for TVs & Monitors
Sponsors: Absolute Solar, Clerical Technical Union of MSU, Consumers Energy, Granger, Hammond Farms, My Green Michigan, Okemos Public Schools.
Flyer: Click here
- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Event: Lansing Area AIDS Walk
Time: 9am- 12 pm
Location: Edgewood United Church- 469 N Hagadorn Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823
Who: All are welcome
About: Come join us a for a two-mile walk and local vendor fair. AIDS Walk commemorates and celebrates people living with HIV and raises funds to support the Lansing Area AIDS Network. This community event has been a LAAN tradition for over 25 years.
Host: Lansing Area AIDS Network
Registration: https://www.laanonline.org/events/aids-walk-2024/
Website: laanonline.org
- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Event: Can International Courts Help to Contain Armed Conflict?
Time: 7PM
Location: Zoom. (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85917168536?pwd=dRJjxp8WZEdXUuzdHXJhG4iCOmJsyN.1#success)
Who: All are welcome
About: Professor Brad Roth, Wayne State University will speak with us from Belfast, Ireland
Details soon to follow.
Host: Greater Lansing United Nations Association and Peace Education Center
Website: https://gluna.org/event/can-international-courts-help-to-contain-armed-conflict/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/3859121377701467
- SEPTEMBER 24-29, 2024
Event: Premier performance of the “P\A”
Location: Studio 60 Theatre in the Auditorium Building, Michigan State University
Times: SEPTEMBER 24, 25, 26, 2024 @ 7:30 PM & SEPTEMBER 27 @8:00 PM & SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 @ 2:00 PM
Host: MSU Department of Theatre
About: P\A is a devised physical theatre odyssey that reveals a young woman’s choice to conform or diverge—a tribute to Her body’s right to protest and liberation. The performance is an abstraction of feminine iconography and binary gender representation.
Who: All are welcomed.
Cost: $10 ( The ticket office at the Studio 60 opens one hour prior to the show with doors opening 30 minutes prior. It will close 5 minutes after the posted start time as late seating beyond that point will disrupt the performers and fellow audience members. Tickets can be purchased online at https://whartoncenter.evenue.net/events/WC-DOT-PA)
Parking: Free in the lot across the street from the Auditorium building. Enter through the entrance off Farm Lane and head downstairs past the Arena Theatre down the hall to the Studio Theatre.
For more info: https://www.whartoncenter.com/events/detail/p-a
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Event: Peace Vigil
Location: In front of the Michigan State Capitol Building, 110 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing
Time: Noon-1:00 p.m.
Who: All are welcomed
Cost: Free
Hosts: Lansing area people interested in keeping the importance of peace building in our consciousness. Initiated by GLNAWI (Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice.) Plant Justice Grow Peace joined the Friday Peace Vigils in June 2023.
About: We have gathered every Friday since Sept 11, 2001 to promote peace. Bring peace related signs if you would like. Signs are also provided.
- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. until cash runs out
Location: St. Michael’s Church, 6500, Atwood Drive, Lansing parking lot
Host: Lansing Police Department, Ingham County Sheriff’s Office, and St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Lansing
Flyer: 2024-gun-buyback_lansing.png
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