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Picture the Peaces
Reception

Breaking the Cycle of Violence Through Circles of Peace
Picture the Peaces Reception
Join the peaceCENTER on Saturday, April 10th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a reception at the SanAntonio Children's Museum in Downtown San Antonio to honor the entries in the
PICTURE THE PEACES CONTEST
Meet our special guest ARUN GANDHI, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
new!Visit the Picture the Peaces Gallery online!

If you bring this letter with you, you will be able to enter and see the entire museum free after 4:00 p.m. on April 10th, the day of the reception.

If you are 12 years old or younger, "Project Peacemaker" will give you a nonviolent toy or software program in exchange for one of your violent toys if you bring your violent toy with you to the Children's Museum before the reception, on April 10th from 2-6 p.m.. Project Peace Makers is a non-profit community education and awareness event hosted by Discovery Toys Consultants in San Antonio, in partnership with the Metropolitan Health District and the peaceCENTER. In addition to the toy exchange, we will provide parents with bilingual literature supporting the important of positive, nonviolent play.

The Picture the Peaces entries will be on display at the Children's Museum, 305 E. Houston Street, during the entire month of April. Their phone number is (210) 212-4453.

A Reader's Theater featuring Feathers and Foots by Mem Fox and When Stories Fell Like Shooting Stars by Valiska Gregory will be hosted by the San Antonio Library as part of Picture the Peaces during the rception at the Children's Museum. Other locations are:

  • Thursday, April 1, 3:30 p.m., Collins Garden Library
  • Saturday, April 3, 2:00 p.m., Central Library
  • Wednesday, April 7, 7:00 p.m., Las Palmas Library
  • Saturday, April 10, 2:00 p.m., San Pedro Library
  • Wednesday, April 14, 1:30 p.m., Cortez Library
  • Wednesday, April 21, 7:00 p.m., Thousand Oaks Library
  • Thursday, April 22, 9:30, 10, 10:30, a.m., Thousand Oaks Library

If you contributed an entry to the Picture the Peaces contest, you may pick up your work at the Children's Museum between 1 May and 7 May, 1999.

Imagine it! Peace for each of us. Peace for all of us. Picture it! Everyone wins when peace is imagined!

Thanks to the peaceCENTER partners, KLRN, the San Antonio Express News, the San Antonio Public Libraries and the San Antonio Children's Museum.


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