The Oldham Peace Week is all set to return, to provide a host of free events and activities that will run from 24 June (Saturday) to 1st July (Saturday), in Oldham in Greater Manchester. Open to all to attend, the event are a showcase of musical talent and poetry, performed by refugees and asylum seekers resident in Oldham
Alongside the event there will be a market place with organisations, being the last day of the refugee week also, offering support to the event. On 26th June (Monday), the Greater Manchester & District CND will organise the screening of the film- ‘Threads’.
The film, with scenes filmed on location at Saddle worth Moor, is considered as the most powerful anti-nuclear message on film and brings to life the effects of a nuclear attack in the region. This free event will be shown from 6pm to 8pm, at the Oldham Library, on Greaves Street, with an introduction by the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Kate Hudson.
At hand to facilitate a Q & A Session at the end of the screening, will be members of Saddleworth Peace Group. The Peace Education Programme which is a series of 10 free interactive workshops, will be introduced on 28 June Wednesday, by Moira Colman and Marin Ellis, from 1:30pm.
Failsworth Library will also host on 29th June, the reading of Prem Rawat’s “The Pot With A Hole”, a children’s book, at 10am, with a slide-show of the books illustrations and related activities at the end. A peace writing competition (in 303 words) will also be promoted at the event.
On 1st July, Gallery Oldhamd staff will help children make peace cranes. They will be sent for display at the peace garden in Hiroshima, on the 6th August Memorial event. For more details and information of the free events, one can contact by email at – richard.outram2@oldham.gov.uk.
