Call-out for volunteers!

Har­mony Day hap­pens in Aus­tralia on March 21 every year. It star­ted in 1999 and is designed to encour­age multi-cul­tur­al­ism and har­mony in this amaz­ing land of ours. It coin­cides with the United Nations Inter­na­tional Day for the Elim­in­a­tion of Racism.

Some of you know that we organ­ised a won­der­ful Peace Picnic in Treas­ury Gar­dens in Decem­ber 2005 fol­low­ing the Cronulla riots in Sydney. It’s time to do that again, on an even bigger scale and make it an annual tradition.

I’m look­ing for volun­teers to help make it happen. The date will be Sat­urday, March 22, in Treas­ury Gardens. 

Behind the scenes, we need organ­isers, web devel­op­ment, poster-makers, poster-putter-uppers, media folks and networkers-extraordinaire. 

For the day itself, we need musi­cians, story-tell­ers, face-paint­ers, food-makers. As before, the idea is to get as many people from as many cul­tural back­grounds as pos­sible shar­ing our food and our cul­tures, telling our stor­ies from blanket to blanket and watch­ing as gor­geous chil­dren laugh and play, learn­ing that there can be unity in diversity.

Last time we did this, we did it in one week flat and got a few hun­dred people at the picnic plus cov­er­age in MX, the Herald Sun and on ABC TV. This time we have three whole weeks: luxury!

Want to get involved? E‑mail me on peacepicnic@world-changer.org.