Queer & Peace 2018 full program!

Nadine St Louis @ Peace Week

If you missed the incomparable Nadine St Louis during Peace Week, don’t worry! We have her talk captured on camera. Just click, and enjoy!  

Queer & Peace: Vernissage Jan 25th

Join us for  the vernissage of Queer & Peace on Jan 25th, at 5:30 pm in the Warren G Flowers Gallery. Watch a special performance, and admire the beautiful works of art by Daniel Barrow, Dayna Danger, Michel Dumont, Selina Edinger, Yue Feng Jiang Ben Liu, Jennifer Lynch, Kent Monkman, Catherine Opie, Monica Victoria and…

See her again! Alaa Murabit at Dawson College

  We had the great fortune to have one of the most inspiring brilliant change makers of our time, Dr. Alaa Murabit.  She was the keynote speaker at the 2017 Peace Week, hosted by the Dawson College Peace Centre. If you missed her talk the first time, don’t fret you can relive it from the…

Brad Warner comes to Dawson

“Who am I?” Join Brad Warner as he discusses this perennial question from a Buddhist perspective. What do Buddhists mean when they say the “I” doesn’t really exist? (after all, if I don’t exist, then who got this parking ticket?!). Warner will invite us to contemplate this question through Zen meditation practice, which could result…

Fall Speaker Series 2017

Kicking off our October here at the Dawson College Peace Centre, we are proud to give you an amazing Speaker Series. On October 5th we were graced by the presence of Fleet Maull. No to worry, if you missed it, we will be sharing the footage later this semester! Next up- Rachel Yehuda who will…

Thank you Dawson for Peace Week 2018 !

Dawson College Community, you showed up in a big way this year for our 2nd Annual Peace Week!  Over 1,000 of you participated in workshops, speaker engagements, and our Urban Restoration Project part II. We will release the footage of the Keynote Address as well as our speaker Nadine St. Louis in case you missed…

Peace Week 2017

In 2017 the Peace Centre is proud to renew Peace Week and phase II of Projects for Peace.  All activities will be linked to the Dawson College Peace Centre’s 2017-18 theme: Sustainable Peace: The Future of Our Well-Being, Environment and Institutions.  This year’s Peace Week Schedule includes: daily meditation & yoga; Keynote Speaker Dr. Alaa…

Sustainable Peace: The Future of Our Well-Being, Environment and Institutions

  Everything is related. All the things of earth and in the sky have spirit. Everything is sacred. Confronted by the Alie Nation. The subjects and the citizens. See the material religions through trauma and numb. Nothing is related.  All the things of the earth and in the sky. Have energy to be exploited. Even…

Queer & Peace

The DSU, Dawson College Peace Centre and Warren G Flowers Gallery are seeking submissions from LGBTQ artists for the 2018 exhibit Queer & Peace. All artists will be paid. The themes of the show will be peace & resistance, social justice and inequity.  All media are welcome. Submission deadline September 30th. The DSU and Peace…