Festival of Peace
Autor: Ivete Belfort | Publicado: 2012-09-22T14:22:00-07:00

Festival of Peace
 
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. This park is equivalent to Central Park in New York or Hide Park in London. 
UNIPAZ with support of other institutions and government 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 of Festival 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 of 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,  yoga, tai chi chuan, healthy feeding techniques and self-healing, the art of living in peace, massage, simulation of village future among many others. We also had 14 large meetings, plenary and many special events.
 
In the opening, I witnessed an arrival of the Flame of Peace (lighted by Prem Rawat) and a speech with the psychologist, writer and lecturer Jean Yves Leloup that spoke about "The Pleasure of Being in Peace.". in the opening ceremony, several authorities were present as Governor of Alagoas State;- Vice- Mayor of Sao Paulo; - Congressman - Givaldo Carimbão.

Words of Peace (Palavras de Paz) in the Festival:  

During the Festival, we had a large tent called "Words of Peace", where we could show TV programme which are transmitted in over 160 cities in Brazil through Sky, cable, satellite and UHF. In addition, some musicians invited the public to know the message of peace with beautiful songs.
 
On September, 9th at morning, I conducted personally 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 doctor of communication from the University of São Paulo. 
Due to this forum, I gave two interviews to a radio station that is considering broadcasting Words of Peace.
 
In this day, at the main stage, the DTC specially recorded by Prem Rawat ended the Festival, after a short presentation of Prem Rawat.
 
At the end of DTC exhibition, people of UNIPAZ were so glad that they gave me note of gratitude to be given to Prem Rawat in Amaroo. 
We had the support of many people that do not have knowledge and in fact they even do not know anything 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. 
Many people attended the tent of Words of Peace tent these days, watching the videos or getting material and information.
 
Conclusion: 

Our participation on this event improved the knowledge and respect of population of Sao Paulo. Many people that don’t have knowledge applied for collaboration on Words of Peace in other future events.
 
UNIPAZ's team wants to continue work with us. Nelma, the festival main  coordinator wants to cooperate in our PEP project. Other voluntaries that do not have knowledge want to help us, as the Journalists from Radio that helped me in Forum of Media. He wants to assist us on radio programme and air it. 
Vehicles that attended the Forum will promote the next event with Prem Rawat.
Premies were enjoying.