Living Peace Series Speaking Event with Queen Noor

What a whirlwind couple of weeks it’s been here at Center for Living Peace! We were so lucky to have Her Majesty come and spend time with us– we had so much fun! The weeks just flew by. We hope you’ve enjoyed seeing photos from the VIP fundraiser and the Living Peace Projects service day. We wanted to share some photos with you from the speaking event on May 2nd, 2012.

Here is a behind-the-scenes photo from the green room at UCI! UCI’s Chancellor Michael Drake, Her Majesty Queen Noor, CLP’s Kelly Thornton Smith and UCI’s 2011-2012 XIV Dalai Lama Scholar Armaan Ahmed Rowther gathered together before the speaking event for a few quick photos.

Isn’t the Queen stunning?! And check out her bracelet! It’s from our very own Live Peace store!

The speaking event was moderated by Armaan Ahmed Rowther. He is the current Dalai Lama scholar at UCI.The Queen spoke about how she feels education is fundamental to the process of interfaith, and how she believes reaching out to one another is an incredibly grand gesture of peace, that is sometimes over looked. She explained that instead of branding people of other faiths with the idea of “other,” we need to make them a part of us. So inspiring!

Before leaving the stage, Her Majesty gave Kelly a hug…

Such a great image. What an amazing event it was! If you missed the speaking event, you can watch it in it’s entirety here. An edited, and better quality version of the video will also be on our site in the next few days!

 

A giant, special shout out to our lovely photographers: Alex Abercrombie, Ashely Strong Photography and Jason Niedle. We also wanted to thank UCI, all the students, staff and faculty that came out to the speaking event, helped set eveerything up to make the event possible, Apples & Oranges for filming the speaking event and Orange County Films for streaming the event for us! We are so grateful to have such an amazing team of individuals helping us make peace real!

 

Good Happens.

Peace Grl Out.

Celebrations of Africa Week and CTAOP Event Wrap Up!

It has been such an amazing week at the Center for Living Peace! We had the Celebrations of Africa Week, then we had Working Groups at CLP on Saturday, followed by the Charlize Theron and Dr. Michael Bennish talk at UCI, and then the gala to raise money for Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project! Here are a few highlights from the  events!

Sneak peek of Celebrations of Africa Week…

Artful Eating: South African Foods

Artful Eating: South African Food

Tapping the Body's Wisdom: Sacred Snakes

Tapping the Body's Wisdom: Sacred Snakes

Celebrations of Africa week was such an amazing series of classes! Thank you to all of our wonderful teachers for putting together the classes, and thank you to everyone who came and participated in the classes!

 

Sneak Peek of our Working Groups…

On Saturday, December 4th before the Charlize Theron speaking event, we brought together local groups to talk about what they could do to help the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project.  Here’s a video that our friends at Apples and Oranges Productions put together for us!

Thank you again to Apples and Oranges Productions for filming our Working Groups and putting this video together for us! You guys did an amazing job!

 

Here is a preview of some photos from the gala…

Jason Niedle and Cali Green attended the gala on Saturday and wrote up a beautiful posts about the event!

Good really is happening! THANK YOU to everyone who helped us organize these events, and THANK YOU to everyone who came out and supported the Center for Living Peace and the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project!

Good Happens.

Peace Grl Out.