In cooperation with the Global Summer of Peace organized by James O'Dea, international social healer, Former Executive Director of the Noetic Institute, former Executive Director of Amnesty International,
Washington, D.C., and lead faculty on The Peace Ambassador Training Programs produced by The Shift Network, the Lake County Summer of Peace 2012 is the first county California to join the international community of Peace. As with the worldwide Summer of Peace celebrated on all continents, the Lake County Summer of Peace will be celebrated from June 22 through September 21, 2012, the International Day of Peace, as named by the United Nations in 1984.
Washington, D.C., and lead faculty on The Peace Ambassador Training Programs produced by The Shift Network, the Lake County Summer of Peace 2012 is the first county California to join the international community of Peace. As with the worldwide Summer of Peace celebrated on all continents, the Lake County Summer of Peace will be celebrated from June 22 through September 21, 2012, the International Day of Peace, as named by the United Nations in 1984.
A PEACE INVITATION FOR YOU!
The Lake County Summer of Peace invites you to join in the planning and execution of a unique and historic event in Lake County, California throughout the summer of 2012. Planning starts now. Joining other regions, countries, states and cities around the world, we now have an opportunity to consciously and positively move with the shift that we all feel in human consciousness and become proactive in the overall social healing of our community and world toward a more balanced and harmonious place to live and work.
Your participation in the new sense of unity, freedom, independence, collaboration and personal responsibility for our individual and group well being is effective here and has its ripple outward in various parts of the world, making you a driving force for change in our own homes, hearts and towns around the lake, as we develop our new economic vision and our collaborative ways of creating our Lake County future and that of our children, neighbors, friends and associates.
We are the change!
THE IMAGE IS EMERGING!
One great vision of Lake County has been to develop ourselves as a cultural colony around our beautiful mountain lake, with little bistros with small stages around our shores for musicians, artists, writers and the public to meet, talk and enjoy the food, wine and music. Lake County has attracted an unusual number of bands, fine artists and writers to the area, who are already setting the tone for this kind of rural township environment, delicious for ourselves and for guests and tourists who want to see and enjoy the new wine country of northern California.
Talent and growing interest in stage and radio have grown exponentially in the past few years, and KPFZ, the Soper-Reese, the Weaver Theatre, the Fairgrounds Little Theatre, the Tallman Hotel and the Lake County Arts Council have provided important gathering places for expanding audiences among new and old residents of the area. Even the senior centers in Lakeport, Kelseyville, Clearlake, Clearlake Oaks and Lucerne are in the entertainment business with increasing music and other talent enhancing the food and fellowship. From small, intimate plays to huge musical productions on our stages, opportunities have abounded for the development of native talent discovered in adults and our youngest actors, singers and directors.
Interest in health and expansion of the human spirit and well being are evident everywhere, as demonstrated by the more than 300 non-profit organizations in the county for many diverse groups of historians, and a growing number of exercise and health groups, including the Sutter Wellness Center and Quail Run. The Lake County Co-op and food/farm groups are changing our habits about food, diet and organic gardening. Transition Lake County (TLC) is leading the way in our unique collaboration with earth and its elements: air, water, fire and water, and biodynamic vegetable gardening throughout the area.
Technology has not forgotten our remote county; we are a part of the vanguard of developing ideas and new ways to reach economic and human capacities for communication, music, news dissemination and health outlets. Several major senior centers and organizations to meet the needs of ethnic groups abound, along with 4-5 casinos, depending upon how you count them! Our Hispanic population is growing. We have an obligation for further inclusion of Native Americans and Mexican residents, adding to the rich fabric of international human talent and culture now representing Lake County.
We now have a popular online newspaper, Lake County News, adding to our traditional print news source, the Lake County Record Bee. We are blessed with a superb symphony orchestra and many vocal groups and individuals, including operatic and popular singing groups. Individual instrumentalists and small and large bands abound. Vineyards and wineries replace some of the pear and walnut homesteads of the county. Our entire county is changing! For all our charm, history and traditional practical purposes, we are also morphing into a new entity, culturally, psychologically and economically!
RAPID CHANGE PROJECTED IN 2012!
Nonetheless, who and what we are as a community may look ancient in five years. Our world is changing so rapidly that we now have an opportunity to become active social healers and supporters of our community, and are called to action to take part in this massive transition during our lifetimes. Culturally, psychologically, politically, socially, physically, we are called to participate in the deep changes within and around us. While we are changing, we also are at a crossroads to shape and create ourselves, our towns and the county we love, opening our doors to tourists, new business, new low-impact industry and restored property values in our beautiful countryside. And to shape our local and national and social policies to best serve the residents of and visitors to Lake County and our children and grandchldren in all future generations.
OUR LAKE COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY!
The Lake County Summer of Peace 2012 offers countless opportunities for you to communicate your vision of the county and how you would like to influence that change. This is an opportunity for individuals and communities to exercise their true right to choice. “We the People”…demonstrates our choice, will, commitment and common determination through traditional leadership, occupiers, movers, shakers, changers of the social contract in a peaceful, caring, mindful community that is fun, healthy, positive and economically beneficial to all...if we make it so! That is our opportunity, and can be our commitment!
Your contribution of time and talent to the great mix of the Summer of Peace participants can contribute in many ways. The transition will take place upon the initiative of individuals and organizations throughout the County (i.e. you!) who want to create positive change toward inner and outer tranquility, openness, tolerance, humor, inclusion, cooperation, givingness and forgiveness, harmony, creativity, mentoring, compassion, and the reduction of family and other violence and bullying; most individuals and organizations will want to contribute to the general prosperity of the area and any other positive and peaceful change you wish to manifest, including many health, technological, environmental and community policy changes. Numerous forums and symposia will be provided in your neighborhood or another sector of the county to meet with neighbors and other community members and discuss parallel or opposing views around the lake in convenient locations.
CONTRIBUTE YOUR TALENT OR EXPERTISE...OR ENTER YOUR BUSINESS OR NON-PROFIT INTO THE PEACE STREAM...TOWARD GREATER PROSPERITY!
Through your own ideas of peace and prosperity, you can also include introductions of your services, sales, discounts, open houses, new products, introductions and other offerings that bring good will and smiles to Lake residents, tourists and other guests.
Individually or corporately, you may personally or organizationally participate in the Lake County Summer of Peace 2012, through radio, television, film, video, live stage and online programs.
You can create and develop workshops, lectures, plays, concerts, and video programs on health, communications, relationships, area development, exercise, music, children’s art, adult art, sculpture, cross-culture programs, dance, drumming, singing, education about health and relationships, and new technologies through joining the planning and execution of the summer of peace here and abroad. Call us, and we can help you shape your show and plan it...the rest is up to you!
You and your business or avocation can take part in demonstrating your dedication to peace and its qualities through your products, services, sales and events. Businesses and especially the wineries, hotels, motels, restraurants and retail stores are likely to benefit the most from the Lake County Summer of Peace. How many tourists are likely to come to Lake County, and not try a half-dozen or more tasting rooms, drive around the wineries to take in the beauty of their buildings and their landscaped settings, or walk down our main streets to take in the charming shops and pubs. The summer events will also be fun, uplifting, educative and rewarding for all, including children, seniors, ethnic groups and other special interests. Through taxes, even the County will benefit from additional income derived from the Lake County Summer of Peace.
Lake County businesses can also link with another city, town or region (or an out-of-county business sibling) in the U.S. or abroad to share ideas and programs in the global Summer of Peace.
THE PROGRAM IS DEVELOPING!
We have booked our first event of the summer, and some 80 more workshops, plays, videos, demonstrations, concerts and lectures are in the wings, all intended to be low or no cost for all to enjoy. The first registration for the Lake County Summer of Peace is “Peace Dances in the Park”, native dancing to the poetry of Thich Nhat Hanh, led by Barbara Christwitz, a teacher at Yuba College and a Founding Member of the Lake County Co-op. Two separate events on two separate days will take place: (1) Clearlake Austin Park, Saturday, September 14, 2012 4-5:30 pm. Lakeport Library Park, and (2) Lakeport's Library Park, Sunday, September 15, 2012, 4-5:30 pm. Drumming will follow both events. Bring your drums and rhythm instruments and your spirit of peace and joy. Other events to be calendared are listed in subsequent pages.
A safe, dependable and relatively independent economic environment is essential for peace and for an expanded profile as a family and couple tourist destination. As creators of peace and custodians of our beautiful natural lake and mountain terrain, we are all in this together. The Peace Center welcomes your ideas and participation to make Lake County the most beautiful, comfortable, clean and enjoyable and attractive vacation land in the U.S. This is our best investment in our homes, lives and our children's future.
LOCAL CIVIC SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATION IN LARGE AND SMALL EVENTS!
The Lake County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on August 23. 2011 to declare the Lake County Summer of Peace and the International Day of Peace as a county project for 2012, and many people and organizations are now in process of planning the initial thrust of the campaign to develop workshops and other events and to post on our calendar of plans and programs for the summer to distribute in a national PR campaign to draw tourists to Lake County.
The City of Lakeport also declared the Lake County Summer of Peace to be an official Lakeport City project, and all residents, businesses, churches, spiritual groups, veterans, ethnic groups, government agencies and employees, wineries, shops and restaurants are invited to share their ideas and creative workshops to participate in the 90-day event. The Peace Center has made our first appearance before the Clearlake City Council, and will reappear in a longer presentation in February. (See attached copies of Proclamations for Lake County and the city of Lakeport! The City of Clearlake and other lake communities will undoubtedly appear here soon!
The Lake County Board of Supervisors, the Marketing and Economic Development Departments of the County (such as Health, Social Services, Mental Health, Alcohol and other Drugs, Parks and Recreations and other departments, such as the Economic Development and Parks and Recreation Departments, among many others) and offices of the City Council and Development Departments of Lakeport are supporting the official launching of the Summer of Peace in Lakeport's Library Park at 4 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012.
The Peace Center anticipates comparable collaboration and support from the Clearlake City Council and other officials of the city at Clearlake's Austin Park on June 22 and September 21, 2012. Peace poles representing the commitment to peace in 16 different languages will be established within gardens in each park, surrounded by beautiful renaissance music, dancing and official welcoming speeches by, Roberto Dansie, Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert on the Mayan Culture . It is our hope that Arun Gandi, grandson of Mahatma Gandi, will also be a keynote speaker at the event. Dr. Eugene Tazo will speak at the Clearlake launch event on Ancient Christian Culture.
All AT LOW OR NO COST-- HOWEVER, IF YOU CAN DONATE PROMOTIONAL DOLLARS, WE WILL BE ABLE TO ADVERTISE AND PUBLICIZE FURTHER TO MAGNETIZE MORE TOURISTS AND OTHER TRAVELERS TO THE LAKE COUNTY SUMMER OF PEACE FOR FAMILY FUN, ENTERTAINMENT, EDUCATION, AND ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH OUR COLLABORATIVE, DIVERSE AND HARMONIOUS CONTTRIBUTIONS TO PEACE AND PROSPERITY. THIS IS A TRUE COMMUNITY PROJECT!
There will be no standard fee to the Peace Center for services for these programs, except perhaps a modest donation for registration to cover administration (i.e., paper, printing, inks, web hosting and pr/advertising) for emailing/scheduling/publicizing events throughout the year, and some small souvenirs to sell for fund raising. Attendance for most programs will be free or low cost; and each participant program underwrites its own events, make its own agreements with venues or parks, equipment, concessions and materials, according to its own needs and resources.
Please let us know how you would like to interface with all the activite so that coordination and collaboration can help avoid conflict and overlap of many creative programs, and the programs are publicized through the entertainment and general news media, newsletters, Chambers of Commerce and other non-profits, vineyards and wineries and other benefiting groups throughout the county and beyond.
What do you wish to share/wish/intend/contribute/create/ or otherwise offer to the Lake County Summer of Peace 2012 for the good of us all?
Here’s to Lake County and our Summer of Peace 2012! Please call, write or email with your questions or ideas to make this a rich, sacred and festive season of beauty, fun and collaborative education, entertainment, and inner sharing for all residents and guests to enjoy and our consciousness to be raised this summer.
The Lake County Summer of Peace invites you to join in the planning and execution of a unique and historic event in Lake County, California throughout the summer of 2012. Planning starts now. Joining other regions, countries, states and cities around the world, we now have an opportunity to consciously and positively move with the shift that we all feel in human consciousness and become proactive in the overall social healing of our community and world toward a more balanced and harmonious place to live and work.
Your participation in the new sense of unity, freedom, independence, collaboration and personal responsibility for our individual and group well being is effective here and has its ripple outward in various parts of the world, making you a driving force for change in our own homes, hearts and towns around the lake, as we develop our new economic vision and our collaborative ways of creating our Lake County future and that of our children, neighbors, friends and associates.
We are the change!
THE IMAGE IS EMERGING!
One great vision of Lake County has been to develop ourselves as a cultural colony around our beautiful mountain lake, with little bistros with small stages around our shores for musicians, artists, writers and the public to meet, talk and enjoy the food, wine and music. Lake County has attracted an unusual number of bands, fine artists and writers to the area, who are already setting the tone for this kind of rural township environment, delicious for ourselves and for guests and tourists who want to see and enjoy the new wine country of northern California.
Talent and growing interest in stage and radio have grown exponentially in the past few years, and KPFZ, the Soper-Reese, the Weaver Theatre, the Fairgrounds Little Theatre, the Tallman Hotel and the Lake County Arts Council have provided important gathering places for expanding audiences among new and old residents of the area. Even the senior centers in Lakeport, Kelseyville, Clearlake, Clearlake Oaks and Lucerne are in the entertainment business with increasing music and other talent enhancing the food and fellowship. From small, intimate plays to huge musical productions on our stages, opportunities have abounded for the development of native talent discovered in adults and our youngest actors, singers and directors.
Interest in health and expansion of the human spirit and well being are evident everywhere, as demonstrated by the more than 300 non-profit organizations in the county for many diverse groups of historians, and a growing number of exercise and health groups, including the Sutter Wellness Center and Quail Run. The Lake County Co-op and food/farm groups are changing our habits about food, diet and organic gardening. Transition Lake County (TLC) is leading the way in our unique collaboration with earth and its elements: air, water, fire and water, and biodynamic vegetable gardening throughout the area.
Technology has not forgotten our remote county; we are a part of the vanguard of developing ideas and new ways to reach economic and human capacities for communication, music, news dissemination and health outlets. Several major senior centers and organizations to meet the needs of ethnic groups abound, along with 4-5 casinos, depending upon how you count them! Our Hispanic population is growing. We have an obligation for further inclusion of Native Americans and Mexican residents, adding to the rich fabric of international human talent and culture now representing Lake County.
We now have a popular online newspaper, Lake County News, adding to our traditional print news source, the Lake County Record Bee. We are blessed with a superb symphony orchestra and many vocal groups and individuals, including operatic and popular singing groups. Individual instrumentalists and small and large bands abound. Vineyards and wineries replace some of the pear and walnut homesteads of the county. Our entire county is changing! For all our charm, history and traditional practical purposes, we are also morphing into a new entity, culturally, psychologically and economically!
RAPID CHANGE PROJECTED IN 2012!
Nonetheless, who and what we are as a community may look ancient in five years. Our world is changing so rapidly that we now have an opportunity to become active social healers and supporters of our community, and are called to action to take part in this massive transition during our lifetimes. Culturally, psychologically, politically, socially, physically, we are called to participate in the deep changes within and around us. While we are changing, we also are at a crossroads to shape and create ourselves, our towns and the county we love, opening our doors to tourists, new business, new low-impact industry and restored property values in our beautiful countryside. And to shape our local and national and social policies to best serve the residents of and visitors to Lake County and our children and grandchldren in all future generations.
OUR LAKE COMMUNITY AND INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY!
The Lake County Summer of Peace 2012 offers countless opportunities for you to communicate your vision of the county and how you would like to influence that change. This is an opportunity for individuals and communities to exercise their true right to choice. “We the People”…demonstrates our choice, will, commitment and common determination through traditional leadership, occupiers, movers, shakers, changers of the social contract in a peaceful, caring, mindful community that is fun, healthy, positive and economically beneficial to all...if we make it so! That is our opportunity, and can be our commitment!
Your contribution of time and talent to the great mix of the Summer of Peace participants can contribute in many ways. The transition will take place upon the initiative of individuals and organizations throughout the County (i.e. you!) who want to create positive change toward inner and outer tranquility, openness, tolerance, humor, inclusion, cooperation, givingness and forgiveness, harmony, creativity, mentoring, compassion, and the reduction of family and other violence and bullying; most individuals and organizations will want to contribute to the general prosperity of the area and any other positive and peaceful change you wish to manifest, including many health, technological, environmental and community policy changes. Numerous forums and symposia will be provided in your neighborhood or another sector of the county to meet with neighbors and other community members and discuss parallel or opposing views around the lake in convenient locations.
CONTRIBUTE YOUR TALENT OR EXPERTISE...OR ENTER YOUR BUSINESS OR NON-PROFIT INTO THE PEACE STREAM...TOWARD GREATER PROSPERITY!
Through your own ideas of peace and prosperity, you can also include introductions of your services, sales, discounts, open houses, new products, introductions and other offerings that bring good will and smiles to Lake residents, tourists and other guests.
Individually or corporately, you may personally or organizationally participate in the Lake County Summer of Peace 2012, through radio, television, film, video, live stage and online programs.
You can create and develop workshops, lectures, plays, concerts, and video programs on health, communications, relationships, area development, exercise, music, children’s art, adult art, sculpture, cross-culture programs, dance, drumming, singing, education about health and relationships, and new technologies through joining the planning and execution of the summer of peace here and abroad. Call us, and we can help you shape your show and plan it...the rest is up to you!
You and your business or avocation can take part in demonstrating your dedication to peace and its qualities through your products, services, sales and events. Businesses and especially the wineries, hotels, motels, restraurants and retail stores are likely to benefit the most from the Lake County Summer of Peace. How many tourists are likely to come to Lake County, and not try a half-dozen or more tasting rooms, drive around the wineries to take in the beauty of their buildings and their landscaped settings, or walk down our main streets to take in the charming shops and pubs. The summer events will also be fun, uplifting, educative and rewarding for all, including children, seniors, ethnic groups and other special interests. Through taxes, even the County will benefit from additional income derived from the Lake County Summer of Peace.
Lake County businesses can also link with another city, town or region (or an out-of-county business sibling) in the U.S. or abroad to share ideas and programs in the global Summer of Peace.
THE PROGRAM IS DEVELOPING!
We have booked our first event of the summer, and some 80 more workshops, plays, videos, demonstrations, concerts and lectures are in the wings, all intended to be low or no cost for all to enjoy. The first registration for the Lake County Summer of Peace is “Peace Dances in the Park”, native dancing to the poetry of Thich Nhat Hanh, led by Barbara Christwitz, a teacher at Yuba College and a Founding Member of the Lake County Co-op. Two separate events on two separate days will take place: (1) Clearlake Austin Park, Saturday, September 14, 2012 4-5:30 pm. Lakeport Library Park, and (2) Lakeport's Library Park, Sunday, September 15, 2012, 4-5:30 pm. Drumming will follow both events. Bring your drums and rhythm instruments and your spirit of peace and joy. Other events to be calendared are listed in subsequent pages.
A safe, dependable and relatively independent economic environment is essential for peace and for an expanded profile as a family and couple tourist destination. As creators of peace and custodians of our beautiful natural lake and mountain terrain, we are all in this together. The Peace Center welcomes your ideas and participation to make Lake County the most beautiful, comfortable, clean and enjoyable and attractive vacation land in the U.S. This is our best investment in our homes, lives and our children's future.
LOCAL CIVIC SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATION IN LARGE AND SMALL EVENTS!
The Lake County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on August 23. 2011 to declare the Lake County Summer of Peace and the International Day of Peace as a county project for 2012, and many people and organizations are now in process of planning the initial thrust of the campaign to develop workshops and other events and to post on our calendar of plans and programs for the summer to distribute in a national PR campaign to draw tourists to Lake County.
The City of Lakeport also declared the Lake County Summer of Peace to be an official Lakeport City project, and all residents, businesses, churches, spiritual groups, veterans, ethnic groups, government agencies and employees, wineries, shops and restaurants are invited to share their ideas and creative workshops to participate in the 90-day event. The Peace Center has made our first appearance before the Clearlake City Council, and will reappear in a longer presentation in February. (See attached copies of Proclamations for Lake County and the city of Lakeport! The City of Clearlake and other lake communities will undoubtedly appear here soon!
The Lake County Board of Supervisors, the Marketing and Economic Development Departments of the County (such as Health, Social Services, Mental Health, Alcohol and other Drugs, Parks and Recreations and other departments, such as the Economic Development and Parks and Recreation Departments, among many others) and offices of the City Council and Development Departments of Lakeport are supporting the official launching of the Summer of Peace in Lakeport's Library Park at 4 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012.
The Peace Center anticipates comparable collaboration and support from the Clearlake City Council and other officials of the city at Clearlake's Austin Park on June 22 and September 21, 2012. Peace poles representing the commitment to peace in 16 different languages will be established within gardens in each park, surrounded by beautiful renaissance music, dancing and official welcoming speeches by, Roberto Dansie, Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert on the Mayan Culture . It is our hope that Arun Gandi, grandson of Mahatma Gandi, will also be a keynote speaker at the event. Dr. Eugene Tazo will speak at the Clearlake launch event on Ancient Christian Culture.
All AT LOW OR NO COST-- HOWEVER, IF YOU CAN DONATE PROMOTIONAL DOLLARS, WE WILL BE ABLE TO ADVERTISE AND PUBLICIZE FURTHER TO MAGNETIZE MORE TOURISTS AND OTHER TRAVELERS TO THE LAKE COUNTY SUMMER OF PEACE FOR FAMILY FUN, ENTERTAINMENT, EDUCATION, AND ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH OUR COLLABORATIVE, DIVERSE AND HARMONIOUS CONTTRIBUTIONS TO PEACE AND PROSPERITY. THIS IS A TRUE COMMUNITY PROJECT!
There will be no standard fee to the Peace Center for services for these programs, except perhaps a modest donation for registration to cover administration (i.e., paper, printing, inks, web hosting and pr/advertising) for emailing/scheduling/publicizing events throughout the year, and some small souvenirs to sell for fund raising. Attendance for most programs will be free or low cost; and each participant program underwrites its own events, make its own agreements with venues or parks, equipment, concessions and materials, according to its own needs and resources.
Please let us know how you would like to interface with all the activite so that coordination and collaboration can help avoid conflict and overlap of many creative programs, and the programs are publicized through the entertainment and general news media, newsletters, Chambers of Commerce and other non-profits, vineyards and wineries and other benefiting groups throughout the county and beyond.
What do you wish to share/wish/intend/contribute/create/ or otherwise offer to the Lake County Summer of Peace 2012 for the good of us all?
Here’s to Lake County and our Summer of Peace 2012! Please call, write or email with your questions or ideas to make this a rich, sacred and festive season of beauty, fun and collaborative education, entertainment, and inner sharing for all residents and guests to enjoy and our consciousness to be raised this summer.
