Peace Tree Day Introduction
Peace Tree Day is an annual festival for children and families of every culture and faith to celebrate peace, diversity and fusion through the arts!
Children around the world are creating Peace Trees that highlight symbols from all our cultures and faiths on one tree to reflect the beauty of 'diversity in unity'.
Peace Tree Day, which takes place on June 1st every year, is celebrated in cities, organizations, classrooms, homes and through school boards. The festival inspires children to take pride in their heritage and to share it with others, while also discovering the vibrant cultures, traditions and festivals arounds the world. It is also a time to encourage young people to share their talents and develop compassion for others. Students from diverse backgrounds will work together by combining elements from different cultures, to create new forms of art, which will help raise funds to assist underprivileged children around the globe. Peace Tree Day will inspire young people to contribute to society while they explore and celebrate the beauty of every culture and faith to create peace in our world.
On Sunday July 29th, our youngest members of The Peace Tree Club carried out a literary presentation at the Masala! Mehndi! Masti! festival at the CNE in Toronto. It was a wonderful event where Aiishwariya, one of the actors in The Peace Tree, read the book Sweet Samosa and The Peace Book. The children shared their views about what Peace means to them and created a Peace Tree at the festival. The Peace Tree Ambassadors included Priyana, 3, Jasaon, 5, Talina, 5and Aiiswariya, 10. Everyone really enjoyed the presentation and we now have some new Peace Tree Ambassadors who have joined the Peace Tree Network so we keep growing and spreading peace!
