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Michael and Arlene Lindley-Kustak
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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:34:19 -0800
Subject: FYI - Christmas Truce Centenary Commemoration
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Christmas Truce Centenary Commemoration
Hosted by Ross Altman
Wednesday, December 24th
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
At
The Quaker Meeting House
1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica 90404
Potluck Refreshments at 7:00 PM Break followed by
A Holiday Sing-Along and Dramatic Reading of
Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales (excerpt)
$5 Suggested Donation!
No One Turned Away
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2014 Los Angeles folk singer Ross Altman hosts a Centennial commemoration of the storied Christmas Truce that took place on Christmas Eve December 24, 1914. Altman will be joined by fellow musicians Jill Fenimore, Neil Hartman, Carol McArthur, Peter Quentin and Ellen and Stuart Silverman.
With songs, stories and poems that reflect and document the original events that occurred on the battlefield this evening promises to be a inspiring recreation of a singular moment in the history of warfare, when soldiers themselves seized the day to declare a promise of peace in the way that John Lennon would imagine 57 years later; what better way to honor the hope of Christmas for peace on earth and goodwill towards man than to remember the time when it actually seemed within our grasp?
Five months after the guns of August began WWI soldiers on both sides of No Man’s Land dividing the opposing forces in Europe’s major theatre of war spontaneously laid down their arms and observed a self-declared truce for the duration of Christmas nearly unprecedented in warfare. It has been remembered ever since as a bright moment in an otherwise dark time when the better angels of our nature and spirit of peace refused to be extinguished.
On Christmas Eve 2014 therefore we pause to reflect and take a look back at that spontaneous emergence of human conscience when an old Christmas carol became something morea symbol of the power of cooperation and peace as an alternative to war. Ross Altman hosts this musical and spoken word commemoration of that extraordinary night one hundred years ago when peace triumphed over the gods of war. Join us for an evening devoted to memory and to imagine, in John Lennon’s words, all the people living life in peace, in a world without war. We wonder if you can.
Ross may be reached at greygoo...@aol.com or: (323) 931-9321;
Hosted by Ross Altman
Wednesday, December 24th
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
At
The Quaker Meeting House
1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica 90404
Potluck Refreshments at 7:00 PM Break followed by
A Holiday Sing-Along and Dramatic Reading of
Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales (excerpt)
$5 Suggested Donation!
No One Turned Away
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2014 Los Angeles folk singer Ross Altman hosts a Centennial commemoration of the storied Christmas Truce that took place on Christmas Eve December 24, 1914. Altman will be joined by fellow musicians Jill Fenimore, Neil Hartman, Carol McArthur, Peter Quentin and Ellen and Stuart Silverman.
With songs, stories and poems that reflect and document the original events that occurred on the battlefield this evening promises to be a inspiring recreation of a singular moment in the history of warfare, when soldiers themselves seized the day to declare a promise of peace in the way that John Lennon would imagine 57 years later; what better way to honor the hope of Christmas for peace on earth and goodwill towards man than to remember the time when it actually seemed within our grasp?
Five months after the guns of August began WWI soldiers on both sides of No Man’s Land dividing the opposing forces in Europe’s major theatre of war spontaneously laid down their arms and observed a self-declared truce for the duration of Christmas nearly unprecedented in warfare. It has been remembered ever since as a bright moment in an otherwise dark time when the better angels of our nature and spirit of peace refused to be extinguished.
On Christmas Eve 2014 therefore we pause to reflect and take a look back at that spontaneous emergence of human conscience when an old Christmas carol became something morea symbol of the power of cooperation and peace as an alternative to war. Ross Altman hosts this musical and spoken word commemoration of that extraordinary night one hundred years ago when peace triumphed over the gods of war. Join us for an evening devoted to memory and to imagine, in John Lennon’s words, all the people living life in peace, in a world without war. We wonder if you can.
Ross may be reached at greygoo...@aol.com or: (323) 931-9321;
Gina
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