Peace Panel Displays

Making a panel for the display

Here's a composite picture of some of the first panels that we have collected.

Send us your panel photos for spreading the word and we'll share them on our Facebook page and in our e-blasts to members. Let's give Peace a chance!

Details for our World Peace Day Assembly

Our PEACE Assembly will start at 12:00 pm on September 21st at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Panels containing Peace messages will be displayed during the assembly.

Ways you can help

Begin by making a panel and pinning it on your fridge, on the cottage mailbox, on a washing line, on a balcony, or at a family gathering, and encourage others to make a Peace panel. Get a little group together and have a panel-making afternoon. (Re-purpose used fabric and use simple design methods.) When you have a group of panels, gather them together, take a picture, and share your handiwork with your club, on Facebook, or email it to your friends.

Next, arrange delivery of your actual panels to the team in Ottawa who will include them in the physical display on Parliament Hill.

Invite people to show up on Parliament Hill and join in the Peace Group at noon on September 21. We want everyone there who is concerned about Peace: CFUW members, their friends, their families, including children and grandchildren.

Our PEACE Assembly will be on September 21st on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Panels containing Peace messages will be displayed during the assembly.

If you can join in the group on Parliament Hill, please notify one of our project leaders. Project Leaders for this initiative are Deborah (Sherbrooke & District) and Joan (Nepean).

Contact them via email at Pieces4Peace

Peace Panel Specifications:

Squares of fabric - knitted, crocheted, felt, piece of t-shirt, old sheet, etc. (Avoid paper - it may rain!)
Size should be a minimum of 18 x18 inches or 45x45 centimeters.
Images may be drawn (markers work best), glued, stitched, or painted. 'Peace' can be represented by various images, messages & symbols
Just a simple panel. No backing. Finished edges not required.
Members and clubs can produce an unlimited number of panels to be displayed. The more panels, the stronger the message.

IMPORTANT:

Messages, symbols & colours MUST BE NEUTRAL. They may NOT be associated with any particular country, conflict, or war going on presently. We are petitioning for PEACE worldwide.
Panel displays will be determined by the weather and the number of participants on site. They will not be sewn together.
Everybody is welcome to join us on Parliament Hill. The need for Peace is universal, multi-racial and multi-generational.
Local schools, church groups etc. are invited to make and submit panels.

AFTER the Assembly:

Panels can go back to their makers if they wish to keep them. Those who wish to have their panels returned but who are not attending the assembly can designate a representative to watch over them and take them home. Unclaimed panels will be donated to various groups, fiber artists, quilt guilds, quilt projects & schools.