- Introduction by Frederick N. West
- Where There Is Unity
- Come Together
- Halleluyah - Location details about river footage
- Great Grandmother’s Tale
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
- Creating Peace (with resources for further study)
Introduction by Frederick N. West
Has there ever been a time when people were so divided? Has there ever been a time when people were not divided? Always fighting over their political differences, this seems to be the human race, and often our pace. All people, we have always been like this, and far worse times can be found with just a quick turn of the page in your history book.
But we have been blessed with is beautiful quilted melodies drawn from every hue and color of skin. With every earthen born child and kin comes a voice that calls out for justice, purrs for peace, and sounds like suspended silver. We seek the Rosetta stone of harmonies that the better Angels cannot help but gather to. This is the world of the arts, where the dues you pay is in your skill and dedication, not in who your ancestors were or what political inflection you may herald from.
We ask, do you love to sing more than you love to debate and fulminate? If so, then you have a place in the choir. Yet we seek higher goals to harmonize not just our voices but the temperament of humanity, so that our rages do not burn the planet or destroy all creatures’ habitat. Not with law in books or codes, but law of musical harmony, we bring. Come together and join your voices in sounds of praise and comfort, joy, and songs we sing. Will you then agree on every issue that troubles your mind that is on your list? Well, no, but you will not easily count your fellow singer as your enemy.
Through the mist of time and all my rhymes, peace will be sculpted, polished, and shaped. It is the lasting jewell of this quarreling race. It is draped in Pieta beauty. Always we long for the community of song, and so we create, and thus we cope. Pray for children not yet born; we fill their cup, their world, full of hope.
Seattle Peace Chorus now brings you our virtual concert entitled, “Bringing People Together through Song.” We sure hope you enjoy our show. Thank you.
Where There Is Unity
As taught by Pat Wright, and arranged by Kent Stevenson
- Director: Frederick N. West
- Opening soloist: Lisa Allen
- Duet singers: Doug Balcom and Lisa Allen
- Piano accompanist: Kent Stevenson
- Audio and video engineering: Doug Balcom
- Singers:
- Sopranos: Lisa Allen, Martha Baskin, Pat Clayton, Paula Eisenrich, Julie Eriksen, Dee Knapp, Emily Leslie, Michelle Lewis, Nikki Nichols, Rosalyn Schiller
- Altos: Donna Austin, Meta Chessin, Mary Giordano, Kris Zawisza, Wendy Zieve
- Tenors: Doug Balcom, Jeff Carter, Martha Cohen, Sylvain Slaton
- Bass: Steve Bauck, Stephen Ernst, Wakil Matthews, Dale Rector, Tom Sharp, Straton Spyropoulos, Markos Weiss
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2:38 |
Women sitting on a beach, 2019 |
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2:45 |
Two women clasping hands, Ekenäs, Finland, 2017 |
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2:53 |
View of the huge crowd from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, during the March on Washington, 1963 |
Warren K. Leffler (colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd), via Unseen Histories |
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3:02 |
Three young children sitting on a stoop embracing, 2020 |
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3:08 |
Pilgrims gathered for the Hajj at the Holy Mosque Al-Masjid Al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 2020 |
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3:41 |
“African Boys” (a group of young Angolan men who sing in a “Negro Spiritual” style), São Paulo, Brazil, 2017 |
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3:47 |
Group of seated monks in crimson robes, 2017 |
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3:53 |
Group of young women in a wheat field, Mexicali, Mexico, 2018 |
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3:59 |
Group of women posing together, Atlanta, GA, 2018 |
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4:05 |
Group of children, Chư Păh District, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam, 2017 |
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4:11 |
Family posing for a photo, Ensenada, México, 2021 |
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4:17 |
Large group of people spanning several generations, posing on a doorstep, 2021 |
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4:23 |
Line of men holding hands and praying outdoors, 2019 |
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4:29 |
Residents of Portland, Maine, carry a giant rainbow flag down Congress Street during the annual Pride Parade, 2018 |
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6:28 |
Patrinell “Pat” Wright, founder of Seattle’s Total Experience Gospel Choir, on a panel after the presentation of the documentary “Wheedle’s Groove”, at the central library, Seattle, WA, 2016 |
Come Together
- Composition: John Lennon, credited to Lennon–McCartney, The Beatles
- Arrangement: Charles Hiestand
- Solo drummer: Thane Mitchell
- Sopranos: Julie Eriksen, Pat Clayton, Paula Eisenrich, Rosalyn Schiller
- Altos: Michelle Lewis, Sherry Tuinstra-Rosales, Wendy Zieve
- Tenors: Doug Balcom, Jeff Carter, Martha Cohen
- Basses: Stephen Ernst, Wakil Matthews, Dale Rector, Tom Sharp, Straton Spyropoulos
- Audio and video production: Doug Balcom
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2:38 |
Masked woman feeling trapped indoors during COVID-19, 2021 |
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2:43 |
Emotional hug, São Paulo, Brasil, 2021 |
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2:49 |
Guys greeting each other on the beach, 2018 |
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2:54 |
Woman reveling in the view, Diablo Lake, US, 2017 |
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3:18 |
Map of the electoral college results for the US presidential election, 2020 |
Public domain |
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3:23 |
Handshake, Nairobi, Kenya, 2018 |
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3:29 |
Three meerkats, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, 2019 |
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3:34 |
Woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019 |
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4:20 |
Tea Party protest for tax day, St. Paul, MN, 2010 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
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4:26 |
Lady Gaga sings “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Biden inauguration, Washington, DC, 2021 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
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4:29 |
Amanda Gorman recites her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, during the Biden inauguration, Washington, DC, 2021 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
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4:32 |
Child’s feet in the surf, Maharashtra, India, 2018 |
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4:37 |
Seattle Peace Chorus Action Ensemble marches and sings at the Seattle Womxn’s March 2.0, 2018 |
Doug Balcom, SPC AE director |
Author’s personal archive |
Used with permission |
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Hallelujah - Location details about river footage
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Geographic coordinates |
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Stillaguamish River, from Marine Dr. bridge S of Stanwood, WA |
48°12'38.9"N 122°20'11.7"W |
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0:42 |
Wenatchee River, from Old Monitor Rd. single-lane bridge (iron structure with wooden-plank roadway, built 1907), Monitor, WA |
47°30'03.5"N 120°25'32.3"W |
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0:53 |
Skagit River, from Concrete Sauk Valley Rd. bridge, Concrete, WA |
48°31'29.1"N 121°46'16.8"W |
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1:05 |
South Fork Skykomish River, from NE Old Cascade Hwy bridge near Money Creek Campground, W of Skykomish, WA |
47°43'49.4"N 121°24'32.6"W |
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1:15 |
Snoqualmie Falls on the Snoqualmie River, from an observation deck near Salish Lodge, Snoqualmie, WA |
47°32'37.2"N 121°50'21.0"W |
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1:26 |
Stillaguamish River, from Pioneer Hwy bridge on the N side of Silvana, WA |
48°12'36.2"N 122°14'49.1"W |
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1:37 |
Yakima River, from Lmuma Creek Recreation Site, in the Yakima River Canyon, Wymer, WA |
46°48'49.4"N 120°26'57.1"W |
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1:48 |
South Fork Skykomish River, at Eagle Falls on US 2, Halford, WA |
47°47'44.7"N 121°30'50.6"W |
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1:58 |
Columbia River, from the Jackson Creek Fish Camp, on the upper Hanford Reach just below Priest Rapids Dam, SE of Desert Aire, WA |
46°37'43.1"N 119°51'51.3"W |
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2:09 |
Wenatchee River, from the Tumwater Canyon pedestrian bridge near the Old Pipeline Bed Trailhead, W of Leavenworth, WA |
47°35'16.7"N 120°42'32.2"W |
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2:20 |
Skagit River, from the pedestrian suspension bridge to Trail of the Cedars, Newhalem, WA |
48°40'19.5"N 121°14'46.9"W |
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2:31 |
Yakima River, from the Rattlesnake Dance Ridge trail, S of Thrall, WA |
46°53'53.5"N 120°30'07.9"W |
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2:42 |
Snohomish River, from Hoover Water Access Site on Short School Rd., S of Snohomish, WA |
47°51'59.5"N 122°04'36.8"W |
Great Grandmother’s Tale
Written, directed, and engineered by Doug Balcom
- Acoustic guitar: Nedra Gaskill
- Flute: Brenda Neth
- Violin: Kelly Mak
- Oboe & English horn: Rosemary Bell
- Electric bass: Wakil Matthews
- Singers:
- Sopranos: Martha Baskin, Julie Eriksen, Nedra Gaskill, Emily Leslie, Michelle Lewis, Kelly Mak, Margarita Muñoz, Nikki Nichols, Mary Wilson
- Altos: Donna Austin, Miriam Blau, Meta Chessin, Dee Knapp, Brenda Neth, Carmen Shupe, Wendy Zieve
- Tenors: Doug Balcom, Jeff Carter, Martha Cohen, Sue Hurley
- Bass: Steve Bauck, Stephen Ernst, Wakil Matthews, Dale Rector, Straton Spyropoulos, Markos Weiss
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0:59 |
Space Needle at sunset, Seattle, WA, 2017 |
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0:59 |
Just before a hurricane, Miami Beach, FL, 2019 |
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1:04 |
Storm waves crashing at Folkestone Harbour, UK, 2020 |
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1:06 |
Two men push a car through flood waters, India, 2020 |
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1:08 |
Evacuation station for Hurricane Katrina victims, Metarie, LA, 2005 |
LSUsoccerbum |
Public domain |
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1:11 |
Flood survivors on a road surrounded by water, Pano Aqil, Pakistan, 2010 |
US Army Sgt. Jason Bushong |
US Army, via Wikimedia Commons |
Public domain |
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1:13 |
Aerial view of downtown Miami, FL, 2017 |
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1:15 |
South Beach, Miami, FL, 2018 |
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1:18 |
Lujiazui district, Shanghai, China, 2018 |
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1:20 |
Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, Huangpu, Shanghai, China, 2019 |
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1:23 |
Sunrise in Venice, Italy, 2018 |
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1:25 |
Bikes parked over a canal, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016 |
Wikimedia Commons |
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1:32 |
Aerial view of farmland in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, 2009 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
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1:35 |
Farmland in Fribourg, Switzerland, 2017 |
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1:37 |
Farmland in Hade Edge, Holmfirth, UK, 2020 |
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1:39 |
Grassland, 2018 |
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1:42 |
Dried up river bed, Aisch, Germany, 2020 |
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1:44 |
Tree in an arid landscape, 2019 |
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1:47 |
Dirt road across wide-open sageland, 2020 |
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1:49 |
Salvador Dali Desert, Sur Lípez, Bolivia, 2012 |
Panoramio, via Wikimedia Commons |
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1:52 |
Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA, 2019 |
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1:54 |
Callejon of meats in the market, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2013 |
Public domain |
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1:56 |
A shop inside Mercado de La Boqueria, Barcelona, Spain, 2017 |
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1:59 |
Supermarket (probably in Brazil), 2020 |
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2:01 |
Delaware Army National Guard assists at a drive-thru food pantry, Dover International Speedway, Dover, DE, 2020 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
Public domain |
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2:03 |
Toddler puts food packages in a miniature cart at a supermarket, 2019 |
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2:06 |
Two women eating fruit slices in an outdoor setting, 2019 |
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2:08 |
Three children eat cupcakes outdoors, 2020 |
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2:11 |
Traffic free shopping on a Sunday in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, 2018 |
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2:13 |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2017 |
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2:16 |
Sydney, Australia, 2017 |
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2:18 |
Crowded street leading to Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health, Nagapattinam, India, 2018 |
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2:20 |
Aerial view of Sunset Key resort, Tank Island, FL, 2006 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
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2:23 |
Trishaw operators waiting for customers, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018 |
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2:25 |
The Old White Horse Brasserie during the Boxing Day floods, Old Main Street, Bingley, UK, 2015 |
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2:27 |
People wading in a flooded street, 2021 |
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2:30 |
Wildfire in Thailand, 2020 |
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2:32 |
Desiccated ear of corn on cracked, dry earth, 2013 |
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2:35 |
Group of lit candles, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy, 2016 |
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2:37 |
Old woman covering her face, Yuriria, Mexico, 2016 |
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2:40 |
Remembrance crosses, Nottingham, UK, 2018 |
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2:42 |
F/A-18F Super Hornet, Farnborough Airport, Farnborough, UK, 2016 |
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2:44 |
Ruined side-street, Sinjar, Iraq, 2020 |
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2:47 |
Sunset behind barbed wire in the exclusion zone, 2020 |
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2:49 |
Climate activists, Union Square, San Francisco, CA, 2019 |
Wikimedia Commons |
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2:51 |
Greta Thunberg speaks at Austrian World Summit Climate Kirtag, 2019 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
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2:54 |
Oil and Natural Gas Refinery, Turkey, 2015 |
isakarakus |
Pixabay, via Wikimedia Commons |
Public domain |
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2:56 |
Open coal mine in Wyoming, 2004 |
Bureau of Land Management |
BLM, via Wikimedia Commons |
Public domain |
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2:59 |
Composite photo of Earth from low-orbiting satellite Suomi NPP, 2012 |
NASA/NOAA |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
Public domain |
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3:01 |
Melt water running off the top of the Greenland ice sheet, 2015 |
Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons |
Public domain |
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3:04 |
Fridays for Future march, Bonn, Germany, 2019 |
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3:06 |
Dignitaries on stage at the 13th Sustainability Summit: Everyone’s Future, New Delhi, 2018 |
Government of India, via Wikimedia Commons |
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3:08 |
Bull sculpture, Wall Street, New York, NY, 2020 |
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3:11 |
Ships full of freight containers, Seattle, WA, 2020 |
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3:13 |
Audi factory assembly line, San José Chiapa, Puebla, Mexico, 2020 |
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3:16 |
Paper currency of many nations, 2020 |
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3:18 |
Single wind mill at a wind farm near The Dalles, OR, 2019 |
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3:20 |
Solar power plant, 2018 |
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
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1:56 |
The people of Manchester break lockdown to join the global Black Lives Matter protests – Manchester, UK, 2020 |
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2:05 |
Little girl participating in a wheelchair basketball training session – Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, 2020 |
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2:15 |
Woman & toddler resting on a wooden crate, 2020 |
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2:25 |
Hands making a heart symbol while reaching through a set of bars, 2021 |
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3:13 |
Birds flying, 2019 |
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3:22 |
Hot air balloon over Lake Tapps, WA, with Mt. Rainier (Tahoma) in the background, 2020 |
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3:32 |
Sun over the North Atlantic coastline, Portstewart, Northern Ireland, UK, 2021 |
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3:41 |
Carolina Wren singing his little heart out, 2018 |
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3:50 |
Singer at a microphone under bright stage lights, 2018 |
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4:00 |
Boys sitting in a grassy field with a ukulele, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2017 |
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4:10 |
Enraptured young people singing at an outdoor gathering, 2019 |
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4:19 |
Man singing with a guitar in front of a wall full of graffiti about justice issues, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2018 |
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4:29 |
Girl singing with a guitar on a busy street, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2018 |
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4:38 |
Silhouetted person leaping for joy in front of a sunset, 2015 |
Creating Peace (with resources for further study)
- Presentation: Liz Douthitt Sharp
- This video presents perspectives of peacebuilders on reconciliation and creating sustainable peace, with examples from around the world.
Music Credits
| Piece | Composer/Arranger |
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| Adagio in G Minor | Attributed to Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, but likely composed by twentieth-century musicologist/composer Remo Giazotto, based on a fragment of Albinoni's original recovered from the Dresden library that was bombed in WWII. |
| This Little Light of Mine | Piano arrangement by Beth West |
| Ithemba Edinalo (The Trust I have is in Freedom) | From This Land is Mine: South African Freedom Songs, Smithsonian Folkways, 1965 |
| Guitarra Al Viento (Guitar to the Wind) | From Ecuador: The Cry of Freedom! El Grito de Libertad!, Smithsonian Folkways, 1976 |
| This Little Light of Mine | Sung by Bettie Mae Fikes. From Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966, Smithsonian Folkways, 1997. |
Image Credits
Resources
Website
- Beyond Intractability (http://www.beyondintractability.org)
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