World Peace Festival returns to Pierce Park in Appleton on September 12th from noon until 4:00. Attendance is free and welcoming to the entire Community.
This Community Festival is 100% supported and organized by volunteers and is completely donation run.
Centered on the theme, "peace begins with us", the festival will feature powerful messages from local and regional peace advocates and include musical performances by Natural Satellite, Loving Awareness Peace Song Sing-Along, Love, Light and Harmony, Synchronicity, and the Badger State Choirs, as well as a lively medley of Bollywood and Bhangra Dance performances by students and instructors from The M-Effect, and "Our Voices, Our Song" live, in-the-moment co-creative songwriting play shop for peace led by Natural Satellite's Karli Reisdorf.
In addition, over 20 different organizations and vendors for peace will be available to connect with throughout the festival, including a Mutual Aid Free Market with items that can simply be received freely from participating vendors.
We will also feature a vibrant children's activity area with face painting, arts and crafts, and yard games. Peaceful FUN for the whole family, including a playground in the beautiful natural setting of Pierce Park.
Please visit our annual peace pole painting tent to add your peaceful painted expressions to this year's creation.
Building Unity Wisconsin will have their tour bus onsite and will be sharing PEACE with everyone in colorful and creative ways.
Our food vendors this year include Houdini's Paninis, Sabee Culinary Service and Fox Pops.
We will also have a tent with beautiful donated raffle baskets. Please consider a basket for yourself and help us to raise funds for next year's World Peace Festival.
See you on Saturday, September 12th in Pierce Park for World Peace Festival Fox Cities.
Peace begins with each one of us … and together peace grows and grows!!
World Peace Festival Fox Cities is a co-creative, collaborative partnership with Unity of Appleton and Being Collective
Here is a list of this year's orgs and vendors for peace:
Loving Awareness
Common Roots Rising
Building Unity Wisconsin
Fox Valley for Palestine
NEW CARE | Community Action Resource Exchange
Northeast WI Veterans and Advocates for Peace
Hate Free Outagamie
Meraki Tribe
Peaceful Patriots
Rights of Nature
Secular Community Alliance
Sierra Club
Fox Valley Shares
WI Network for Peace and Justice
The M-Effect
Badger State Girl and Youth Choirs