Loviisa Peace Forum program 2011

[Timo Virtala]

Loviisa is an idyllic costal town in southern Finland, one hundred kilometres from Helsinki.

Mon 25th June – Sun 7th Aug

Photo exibition by Mia Aitokari at Laivasilta

Fri 5th Aug

13 – 17 Park event for youth: music, yoga, picknik etc.

19 – 21 Short presentations about peace research in Night Club Alexia
21 – 24 Poetry at Restaurant Degerby

Sat 6th Aug Hiroshima -day

09 – 10 Bus from Helsinki outside Kiasma to Loviisa (5 euro)
08 – 12 Information about peace organisations, music, books and pancaces at Loviisa Market Squere
11 – 13 Meeting of Loviisa Peace Forum negosiation group
13 – 15 Seminar 1: Arab Spring as a Challange to Peace Mediation (in Englis...
15.30 – 17.30 Seminar 2: New Models of Peace Making (in Finnish)
18 – 20 Movie
20 – 21 Bus to Helsinki lives outside Kino Marilyn
21 – 21.50 Zambian Vocal Collection at Laivasilta
21.50 Candle light speech
22.00 Candle light walk from Laivasilta

Sun 7th Aug

10.30 – 12 Bus from Helsinki (outside Kiasma) leaves to Loviisa
12 – 13.30 Peace Mass at Loviisa Squere. Several choirs participating.
15 – 17 Loviisa Song Festival at Kino Marilyn, Kuningatterenkatu 17
17 Bus from Loviisa (outside Kino Marilyn) leaves to Helsinki

More information from Timo Virtala 045 784 055 74 / timo@ virtala.com

Loviisa Peace Forum is a summer event organized annually to bring together diverse opinions and perspectives within an environment of celebration. The weekend includes seminars, concerts, art exhibitions, and a peace mass in the Loviisa Cathedral.

The highlight of the Forum is a Hiroshima Day gathering in the port for a speech, a concert, singing together, and a candlelight peace procession to the beach where candlelit boats will be put into the sea.

Every year the Peace Forum’s seminarium gathers together inspiring thinkers from science, art, and politics to speak about current questions of peace and security. During recent years our themes have been new security threats, peaceful co-existence of religions, and the future of Europe.

Through art and seminar discussions, we explore the great future challenges of humankind.

Contacts:

Loviisa Peace Forum
PL 93
FIN-07901 Loviisa

Secretary General Timo Virtala
[phone]
timo.virtala(at)rauhanfoorumi.fi

Chairperson
Ambassador Ilari Rantakari
[phone]
ilari.rantakari(at)formin.fi