Intercultural & Intergenerational Community Storytelling Festival

Adapt International and Compassionate Action Network
cordially invites you to a week-long program to celebrate

Children's Peace Day

Program begins with

You Who Stand in the Doorway, Come in
a community oral storytelling festival to build bridges of understanding across cultures & generations

October 16 & 17, 2010; 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Inscape (the former Immigration & Naturalization Services building)
815 Airport Way South, Seattle

The festival is curated by Amineh Ayyad as part of Passages event at Inscape, a collective re-visioning and transforming of this historic building into its future role as an arts and culture hub for Seattle's diverse communities.

We are transforming an old detention dorm in the building into a traditional hospitality room representing various cultures around the world. Come and enjoy a traditional storytelling ambiance and have with us a cup of coffee or tea, and listen to and share stories about hospitality, friendship, compassion, perseverance, forgiveness, and the struggles & legacies of immigrants, refugees and other communities in diverse Seattle. Humor, greed, global health and healing are other themes included in the festival.

Our storytellers include Buddhist Reverend Guo Cheen, Muslim Sufi Sheikh Jamal Rahman, SURPRISE storytellers, Compassionist Musician Jon Ramer, elderly, youth, friends, neighbors and strangers.

We are also looking forward to learning The Next Country Over song and singing it together.

On October 23, the program will conclude with a ceremony, peace prayers and planting 1000 flower bulbs at the
Middle East Peace Sculpture at the Peace Garden, Seattle Center.
We are planting seeds in October and hope to see our collective action to promote compassion and a culture of peace bloom in April and beyond.

Co-sponsors: The Compassionate Action Network, Cascadia Center (formerly Camp Brotherhood), Interfaith Community Church, Cultural Link USA, Global Washington and tens of community organizations. The list is growing, please contact Amineh Ayyad at amineh@adaptinternational.us or 206-631-0121 to be added as a co-sponsor.