Autor: Ivete Belfort | Publicado: 2012-09-22T14:18:00-07:00




Past April, during his visit to Brazil, Prem Rawat started the Festival of Peace. Since then, we are supporting and participating in the Festival organized by UNIPAZ. Festival of Peace happened between 6 and 9 September at Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paulo, and developed many activities, as you can check: www.festivalmundialdapaz.org.br. The Peace Festival was an event made exclusively by volunteers and is completely free with 600 activities, involving 5100 volunteers, of which more than 1,000 come from other parts of Brazil, to an estimated 200,000 participants. The cost was equivalent of the event with Prem Rawat in Brazil, around U$150,000. During the period according to the authorities around 2,000,000 visited the park







The activities offered by Festival were lectures, Letter from the Earth, craft workshops, arts, banners of peace, experiences, performing arts, musical and artistic performances, adult and children choirs, dance, physical practices, sports and recreational activities, cooperative games, meditation, conscious breathing, massage, Reiki, Deeksha, yoga, tai chi chuan, feeding techniques and self-healing, the art of living in peace, midwives, doulas and healers, village future among many others. 




We also have 14 large meetings, plenary and many special events. In the openning, I witnessed an arrival of the Flame of Peace and a speech with the psychologist, writer and lecturer Jean Yves Leloup That spoke on "The Pleasure of Being Infinity them Peace.". an opening ceremony, several officials were present as Governor of Alagoas - Sr.Teotonio Vilela Filho;- Marco Antonio Alda (Representing Mayor Gilberto Kassab); - Congressman - Givaldo Carimbão. 

Words of Peace (Words of Peace) in the Festival:

During the Festival, we had a tent called "Words of Peace", where we could show TV programs which are transmitted in over 160 cities in Brazil through Sky, cable, satellite and UHF. In addition, some musicians invite the public to know the message of peace with beautiful songs. 


On September, 9th at morning, I coordinated the forum on Media and Peace with media representatives from several companies, as a Radio station, a Website important company, an alternative newspaper and a teacher of communication. Due to this forum, I gave two interviews to a radio station that is considering broadcasting Words of Peace. In this day, at the stage the video specially recorded by Prem Rawat ending the Festival at 6PM, after a presentation os Prem Rawat. At the end, people of UNIPAZ were so glad that they send a note of gratitude to give to Prem Rawat in Amaroo. For developed all this activities, we had the support of many people that do not have knowledge and in fact they even do not know nothing about it. It includes all photographers and musicians. On the other hands, premies were participating and supporting many different activities of Festival, not related with Words of Peace. We have no idea of how many people were in Words of Peace tent these days, however many people watched the videos or get the material and information Consequences: Words of Peace (Palavras de Paz) is more respected and well known by the community. More people that dont have knowledge want to cooperate with Words of Peace in other events. UNIPAZ team want to continue work with us. Nelma from UNIPAZ that was coordinating the Festival wants to cooperate in PEP project. Other voluntairs that do not have knowledge want to help us, as the Jornalists from Radio that helped me in Forum of Media wants to assist us on radio programme and air it, and an Argentinian journalist that also attend the Forum of Media wants to help Words of Peace. Premies were happy and confident that they could work with people without knowledge in other events.