Guiding Principles for Tamar Valley Peace Festival activities and events
In 2015, a local long-serving peace activist, Mrs Jean Hearn, then in her 90s, initiated the concept of a community festival to promote the creation of a more peaceful approach to conflict resolution, from community, social, environmental and global perspectives.
Jean’s passion was heightened by the late Governor Peter Underwood’s 2014 Anzac Day address where he challenged all Tasmanians to “actively strive for peace on a daily basis” and learn ways of resolving conflict without violence. He challenged us, in remembrance of all those who died or were damaged in war, to do something, to learn how to create peace.
The Tamar Valley Peace Festival aims to encourage the community to find ways to find and celebrate peace. Activities, events and projects held within the Tamar Valley Peace Festival are expected to achieve one or more of the following core objectives:
To raise the awareness of peace issues through the arts, education and the media.
To promote peaceful strategies for resolving conflict at all levels from personal, community, to international.
To translate the desire for peace into action and offer people, especially young people, a course for hope and a motive for action.
To build a world free from injustice, threats of war and violence
To encourage the artist in every one of us to express peace and tolerance as ways of overcoming violence.
The Tamar Valley Peace Festival will not facilitate or support activities or events that have any potential to marginalize or hurt others or cause division in the community.
The Tamar Valley Peace Festival will only accept or publish information that is compatible with the harmonious spirit of the Peace Festival.
Peace Festival Fee Policy
Funding:
The Peace Trust and Festival is a not-for-profit activity. The volunteer Trustees and supporters aim to facilitate a Peace Festival that encourages and enables as many people as possible from all walks of life to participate.
Fee Policy for Participating Organisations:
In keeping with the value of universal access, the Tamar Community Peace Trustees expects organisations participating in the Festival to apply the following fee policy for any activities staged under the banner of the Trust or the Peace Festival:
where possible provide the event/activities at no cost to participants;
fund the expenses through donations, sponsorships and grants;
where funding is not available, organisations may charge a small fee to cover expenses;
commercial/for-profit entities may not levy a fee which will result in a private gain for a person or profit for an organisation (eg. a wage).
Any organisation that is experiencing any financial challenges staging Peace festival activities is invited to contact the Trustees.