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A Fire for Peace Festival

Sha’ar la-Adam Festival ‘A Fire for Peace’

The Sha’ar la-Adam Peace Festival, traditionally held during the Shavuot (Pentecost) holiday, will take place for the eighth time this year. The Festival is the highlight of the artistic and social activities going on throughout the year, celebrating Jewish and Arab culture and understanding. It is entirely organised by volunteers who see it as their mission to create a place of living encounter between the different religions of the region, out of the deep belief that peace is not a faraway dream, but that it can be brought to life even in the simplest of acts.

Last year the Sha’ar la-Adam Peace Festival was held in cooperation with the ‘Healing Words’ initiative from the School of Storytelling at Emerson College, England. An international group of twelve story tellers will prepare a tour of stories and workshops that took them to villages and towns around Israel/Palestine for two weeks prior to the festival. This tour for peace, which broght together children, young people and adults from the different religions and backgrounds of the region, culminated at the Sha’ar la-Adam – Healing Words Festival ‘A Fire for Peace’.

The Festival program includes activities for the whole family: