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Campaign Layaway
All the Month of March!
You are invited to our kick off celebration and fundraiser for campaign Layaway. Members of the Project and community are using their birthdays to give! Monies raised will go to pay off layaways for items that meet our criteria in underserved neighborhoods. Donate here!
AAIC Hunger Walk
May 6 - 2:00pm Registration, 3:00pm Walk
Unitatrian Universalist Church
3300 Morewood Rd, Fairlawn
The Akron Area Interfaith Council hosts their annual fundraiser for the Akron Canton Regional Foodbank. The Akron Peace Project will have a team walking in this event. Please consider joining our team, or donating online here.
Free Hugs
May 7
Downtown Akron - Main St
Noon - 1pm
Join us as we give out free hugs to folks on their lunch hour. Feel free to wear your own Free Hugs T Shirt.
Akron Peace Project Film Series - I Am
May 9 - 7:00pm
Ms Julie’s Kitchen
1809 S Main St.
Akron, Ohio
This film is THE MOST INSPIRING film I have seen in a long while. It had deeply moved me, and I hope it deeply moves you.
I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.” However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.
Armed with nothing but his innate curiosity and a small crew to film his adventures, Shadyac set out on a twenty-first century quest for enlightenment. Meeting with a variety of thinkers and doers–remarkable men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia, and faith–including such luminaries as David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lynne McTaggart, Ray Anderson, John Francis, Coleman Barks, and Marc Ian Barasch – Shadyac appears on-screen as character, commentator, guide, and even, at times, guinea pig. An irrepressible “Everyman” who asks tough questions, but offers no easy answers, he takes the audience to places it has never been before, and presents even familiar phenomena in completely new and different ways. The result is a fresh, energetic, and life-affirming film that challenges our preconceptions about human behavior while simultaneously celebrating the indomitable human spirit.
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Akron Peace Week
Oct 1-8
The greater Akron area.
