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photo of a lit candle Peace & Winter's Light: A Night of Interfaith Storytelling & Singing, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 17, 2005

7:30pm – 9:30pm

Rev. Budd Friend Jones ..... Welcome
Sr. Minister, CCUCC

Audrey Galex ..... Introductions
Emcee & Winter’s Light Producer

International Community School Chorus
..... "Namaste" by Joanne Hammil
..... "Dormi Dormi" an Italian lullaby
Janet Montgomery, Director
Elise Witt, Artist in Residence

Rev. Sylvia Wilson, Celeste and Jasmine Anthony ..... The Lunch

Elise Witt ..... Peace Song

Asma Elhuni ..... Mohammad's First Fast … a Muslim story

Masud Olafani ..... A Baha’i’ Tale

Barry Stewart Mann ..... The Secret of the Shammash, a Jewish folktale

Maureen Jenci-Shelton and Jill Hendrix ..... music & singing

INTERMISSION

Gayanne Geurin Weiss ..... singing

Tom "Blue Wolf" Goodman ..... a Native American story

Tersi Bendiburg ..... A Christmas Legend from Spain

Dr. Bhagirath Majmudar ..... A Hindu story

Chetter Galloway ..... “Cowtail Switch” a story to celebrate Kwanzaa

Stephen Bluestone ..... "Holiness Everywhere"

Gayanne Geurin Weiss ..... concluding song

 

Peace Song (to be sung as a round)

ENGLISH:
Oh what a lovely thing
If the children of the earth
Could live together in peace

HEBREW:
Hi-ne mat-tove
U-ma-nah-yim
She-vet ye-lah-dim gam ya-chad
Be-Shalom

ARABIC:
Ma ‘aj-mah-lu shay-in
Itha kullu ‘aw laa-dul ‘aa-lam
‘Aa shu maa ‘an biss-Salaam

Event cosponsors in alphabetical order:

Baha’i’s of North DeKalb County
Central Congregational United Church of Christ
Congregation Bet Haverim
Islamic Speakers Bureau-Atlanta
Jewel Institute
Kuumba Storytellers of Georgia
Roots & Wings Life Stories
Southern Order of Storytellers
Tikkun Community, Altanta

Additional support from:

Suzy Blough
Elizabeth L’Abate
Mary Mathis
Pam Peck