Sherry Chandler

Peace Work

It’s Women’s Equality Day:

August 26 of each year is designated in the United States as Women’s Equality Day. Instituted by Rep. Bella Abzug and first established in 1971, the date commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, the Woman Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave U.S. women full voting rights in 1920.

And I can’t think of a better way to celebrate it or to spend a Sunday evening than by going to Peace Work, an interactive program of poetry & music about cultivating peace with George Ella Lyon, poet, & Roberta Guthrie, cellist.

The program’s title “Peace Work” comes from quilting. It echoes the quilting bee as a community event where women gathered to stitch fragments of their lives together in beautiful patterns. Piece by piece the quilt emerged. Our hope is that, through listening to poetry and music and writing whatever response they call up, participants will experience peaceful hearts. At the closing of the program those who wish will place their peace words on a large poster with a quilt border.

The event takes place at 4 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 649 Price Avenue, Lexington (map).

The event is free and open to the public. Donations will benefit the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice.

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