• SEPTEMBER 1-30, 2023

Event: Buff City Soap Celebrates Greater Lansing PeaceQuest 2023!
Location: 3490 Okemos Rd., Okemos, MI 48864
Who: Anyone and everyone interested in a fun, fragrant, colorful and peaceful activity!
About: For the month of September, Buff City Soap would like to offer anyone that mentions PeaceQuest a free laundry soap sample in our Peace & Love scent, named “PeaceQuest” for September!  Also, pick up a peace-themed coloring sheet that features both Buff City Soap & PeaceQuest images.  Color the sheet at home, return it to the store before the end of September, and you will get to paint, for FREE, a single-use, spherical effervescent blend of plant-based ingredients, handmade in store daily with olive oil, plus cocoa and shea butters for a moisturizing bath time experience.  The completed coloring pages will hang in our many large windows to be enjoyed by our guests and bring recognition to PeaceQuest and the UN International Day of Peace, September 21.
Cost: Free
Flyer: Buff-city-soap-sept.-1-30
Website: https://buffcitysoap.com/

• SEPTEMBER 14-30, 2023

Event: Punishment or Justice? a quilt exhibit on prison reform
About: Lansing Area Quilt artists Christine Worland, Laura DeLind, Karin Miller,
Mary Brown, and Irene Armock-Schaff have their art displayed in the Grand
Rapids ART PRIZE 2023!
Location: First (Park) Congregational Church, 10 East Park Place NE, Grand Rapids
Who: Anyone interested in learning more about issues of prison reform including
history of prisons, damages caused by the present system including solitary
confinement and choices and alternatives. All of this is displayed in thread and
fabric in five quilts made by the Quilting Divas.
Time: Afternoons, 7 days a week
Flyer: art-prize

• SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023

Time: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Event: “GL-UNA” Peace Gathering
Who: All ages – all who want to build peace in the world.
Location: Lake Lansing South Main Pavilion, 1621 Pike Street, Haslett MI 48840
Description: Join us for a GL-UNA Peace Gathering and ice cream social at the Lake Lansing Park South on August 27 from 1-5 pm. We’ll enjoy a summer picnic, yard games, and door prizes while we celebrate the work GL-UNA has accomplished to foster peace locally and beyond! GL-UNA will provide ice cream, beverages, and a concession stand will be open near the pavilion. Feel free to bring your own picnic foods. There will be lots of fun activities to enjoy, including face painting, creating buttons, painting peace rocks, and crafting peace signs for vigils and marches. We encourage you to bring your favorite outdoor games! 
Cost: Free

• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

EVENT:  Rehearsal for short-term choir for the Sing Out for Peace! concert (on September 23, 7:00 p.m.)
TIME:   10:30 a.m.-12 noon
ABOUT:  Calling all interested singers to join a “Community Peace Choir” (which could develop into a long-term Peace and Justice choir!) to learn three songs for the Sing Out out for Peace! concert.  No preparation required. Please direct questions to Megan Higle at mhigle@lansingfirstpres.org
The songs will be:
“I Choose Love” by Mark A Miller
“United” by PinkZebra
“Hope for Resolution” by Sean Ivory and Paul Caldwell
LOCATION:  Molly Grove Chapel, First Presbyterian Church, 510 W. Ottawa St. Lansing, MI 48933.  
COST:  Free
WHO: All are welcome!
HOST:  Megan Higle
Lansing Childrens Choir, Artistic Director
Lansing First Presbyterian Church, Director of Music & Director of Christian Education
DeWitt Community Singers, Artistic Director

• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Event: Worship Service centered on “Peace”
Location: Edgewood United Church 469 N. Hagadorn East Lansing
Times: 10:00 am – 11:00 am
About: Protestant worship service on the topic of Peace. Sermon by Rev. Bob Livingston, Interim Pastor. Refreshments and conversation in the social hall after the service.
Cost: Free! All welcomed!

• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Event: Premier performance of the play “I Will Never Be Okay”
Location: Studio Theatre in the Auditorium Building, Michigan State University
Times: 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM
Host: MSU Department of Theatre
About: MSU Department of Theatre student Amana Dec used the power of playwriting to help them make sense of their experience and possible healing after the shootings on the MSU Campus. Their very personal response to the tragedy forms the basis of the new original play “I Will Never Be Okay.” There will be a student talkback with audiences following the performances.
Cost: Admission is free but donations will be accepted for the non-profit End Gun Violence Michigan (EGVM)
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.

• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 

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 
Hosts: Members of Friends of CROP – Greater Lansing CROP Hunger Walk Planning Team 
Flier: Culver’s Fundraiser for Friends of CROP Flier 

• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 

Event: Michigan Clean Energy Future Day of Action
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 
About: A climate rally + festival, dynamic guest speakers, food, live music, opportunity for direct engagement with our legislators.
PQ23 NOTE: Taking care of our climate is an important part of peace building. See Sustainable Development Goals #7, 13, 17 in our “About” section.  
Location: MI State Capitol Lawn, 100 N Capitol Avenue, Lansing
Hosts: Michigan Climate Action Network
More Info: Clean Energy

• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 

Event: UN Nuclear Weapons Elimination Day
About: Join the United Nations and people around the world in raising awareness about nuclear weapons, promoting the universal obligation to achieve a nuclear weapons free world and calling on policy makers (legislators and governments) to take concrete action to implement this obligation.
Actions: We encourage you to: 

• Endorse Protect People and the Planet: Appeal for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World(If you have not already done so);
• Endorse Nuclear Taboo from Norm to Law (if you have not already done so);
• Join the Don’t even THINK about starting a Nuclear War social media action;

Call on your government to promote common security and nuclear disarmament at the UN High Level Meeting on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons September 26, 2023. 
Link: https://www.unfoldzero.org/26-september-2023/

• WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 

Event: “A Century of Michigan Voices for Justice and Peace – and New Directions” (celebrating the International Day of Peace, 2023)
Time: 7:00pm
About: This two-part program will include a very brief review of the last century of justice and peace activism in the Lansing area and Michigan by the Peace Education Center, Greater Lansing UN Association, MSU/the Michigan Legislature on South Africa, and Friends Committee on National Legislation. The program will feature: William A. “Bill” Root, 100 year old U.S. Navy veteran of WWII in the Pacific, former U.S. State Department diplomat, and local activist will speak on “seeking Justice and Peace in our Time.”
Location: Edgewood United Church, 469 N Hagadorn Rd, East Lansing MI 48823, corner of Hagadorn and Beech Sts. Also offered as a hybrid event via Zoom online (Click here for the zoom link.)
Hosts: Greater Lansing United Nations Association, Peace Education Center, and Friends Committee on National Legislation
Who: All welcome
Cost: Free.
Registration: Please register by filling out the form here. 

• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Event: Peace Vigil
Location: Michigan Capitol, 110 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing
Time: Noon-1pm
About: We have gathered every Friday since Sept 11, 2001 to promote peace. Bring peace related signs if you would like.
Sponsored by: Greater Lansing Network Against War & Injustice. (GLNAWI) Join us every Friday.

• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2023