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Together for Peace
10/11/05
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Twenty-two Muslim girls from New Horizons Community School in
Leeds were presented with certificates for winning a Together
for Peace photography and digital multi-media competition set
by Leeds Met.
The winning entry, entitled ‘Picture Peace’, comprised a short film featuring the girls giving their opinions and thoughts on war and peace. The school thanked Vera Media for their support in the fundraising, direction and production of the short film.
Second prize was awarded for a poem and photographs by Leeds-based organisation My World, Your World, which is a group of people from many nationalities who support refugees and asylum seekers through performance workshops and networks.
Third prize went to Lynne Coates for her photograph of an Israeli girl taking a photograph of an Arab boy as part of a peace project in Israel.
Mike Love, Together for Peace Co-ordinator, said: “Together
for Peace is about realising that peace isn’t someone else’s
business but is all of our business. The work that has been submitted
for the competition engages more than just the head, it engages
the heart. I hope that it will have an impact on everyone who
sees it.”
The presentation followed an event which saw members of Together
for Peace, Leeds City Council and staff from Leeds Met get together
to spread the message of harmony in the city at an exhibition
hosted by the University as part of this year’s Together
for Peace festival.
Speakers presented talks on the Nuclear Free Local Authorities Exhibition - 25 years of promoting a nuclear free future. Former Councillor Michael McGowan, who brought about the initial resolution in setting up Leeds City Council as an NFLA and who was also a guest speaker at the event said: “Congratulations to Leeds Met on contributing so much to the Together for Peace Festival.”
A Leeds Together for Peace seminar organised by the Leeds City Council Peacelink group in association with the Yorkshire Evening Post and the Leeds Metropolitan University Praxis Centre also took place at the university, featuring speakers from the Yorkshire Evening Post and a former Reuters journalist.
A second seminar, on the subject of ‘Refugees and reporting conflict – personal perspectives’, will be taking place on Thursday 17 November, from 7pm until 8.30pm in Lecture Theatre 2, Leslie Silver Building, Leeds Met Civic Quarter. The speakers will be:
Tim Lezard, President of the National Union of Journalists – How
refugee issues are misreported by the media
Bereket Laul – The War on Terror, conflict and journalism
in transitional democracies: an Ethiopian experience
Nah’la Haydar – Reporting conflict in an Islamic
society – a Yemeni experience
For further information about the seminar please visit www.togetherforpeace.co.uk or ring 0113 247 4341.
