6-Day Peace Chant

Venue: Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace / 16th & Burrard
Dates: June 23 to 28, 2006 Times: 7pm June 23 to 10 pm June 28
Admission: Free / Donations Appreciated
Information: 778-899-8282 or http://www.vancouverchants.com.

6-Day Peace Chant Goes Around the Clock During World Peace Forum

VANCOUVER - Going around the clock, the 6-Day Peace Chant is being launched during the World Peace Forum, offering international visitors and the people of Vancouver the experience of peace through chanting.

From June 23 to 28, the multifaith, participatory event will continue day and night throughout the World Peace Forum, an international gathering of individuals, groups and civic governments from cities and communities to envision a living culture of peace and sustainability.

Leaders from many of Vancouver's chant communities and faith traditions will be hosting sessions at the 6-Day Peace Chant site in the Great Hall of the Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace, 16th and Burrard. They include Sandra Leigh, Jerry DesVoignes, David Embry Solest, Kripanidhi Das, Lorne Mallin, Maggie Reagh, Phil L'Hirondelle, Dax Be, Alana Lea, Joelle Lazar, Nancy Watters, Ellen Coburn, Sheinagh Anderson and Patrick Pennefather, Aline LaFlamme, Seemi Ghazi and Raqib Burke.

The event begins at 7 p.m to midnight., Friday, June 23, with chanting led by the Give Peace a Chant Community, and concludes with a multifaith closing chant from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, featuring many of the six days' chant leaders.

"The continuous chant vigil will symbolically and energetically support the peace dialogue at the Forum," says 6-Day Peace Chant organizer Dacia Moss. "We will support the peace initiative by creating peace in our own hearts through the practice of chanting. It will be an opportunity for the multifaith chanting traditions of Vancouver to meet in community and raise their voices together in celebration."