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Listed below are just a few of the OWW events taking part this year, view our full 2010 events calendar.
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How to do a OWW Event
Welcome to our 'Doing OWW' pages!
The key to a successful OWW lies in having clear objectives, careful planning, good teamwork and events which involve and inspire your community in celebration, learning and action.
Whether you have been running a OWW for a number of years as part of an established group, or are an individual wanting to get started, the following pages are designed to help you make the most of what you choose to do.
Good luck with your planning for OWW 2010!
All the best from the OWW office.
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Involving new people and forming a local OWW group
What could you do to mark One World Week 2010?
There are so many ways to do a OWW event. Here are some suggestions to inspire you.
Tell everyone you know that 17th – 24th October is One World Week. From mother and toddler groups, to work places, schools, colleges and even the gym, everyone can do something big or small. Every event counts.
In 2010 find out which local groups are concerned specifically with peace issues and with children's issues as these groups may be particularly interested in working with you on this year's theme.
The following ideas can be adapted to suit this year's theme. More ideas on Peacing Together One World - creating a culture of peace for all our children.
Food
Hold a shared evening supper, lunch, coffee morning or even a breakfast before work. Invite friends, neighbours and colleagues new and old. Highlight fair-trade, local and organic food and drinks. Use our Grace Across Faiths resource to add an inter faith dimension.
Walks
Gather people together to walk through the town, giving out "Peacing together One World’ leaflets and showing solidarity with thousands of others who are working towards peace and justice in our world. Plan prominent places for the procession group to stop & reflect and take action, making a statement surrounding the theme. Include a local Peace Garden in the itinerary and say prayers for peace together. (If your area doesn't have a peace garden consider creating one). Invite local media to cover the event.
Talks/discussions
Invite key speakers from different faith groups to speak on how their faith responds to eradicating poverty and, in the 2010, OWW, how their faith approaches issues related to creating a culture of peace. What common ground is shared across different faiths? How have other OWW supporters around the world, gathered people together to work for a common cause? How could you use our themed presentations as a focus for discussion groups and further inspiration for action?
Inter cultural celebrations
Cultural music, dance and poetry are great ways to involve members of your community in gathering together and celebrating diversity. Invite local schools, scout groups and faith groups to participate in an evening of entertainment. Invite everyone to write a OWW pledge about what they will do to help create a culture of peace in their community, or join in with an existing campaign, or alternatively, to create one that is relevant to your community.
Inter faith events
Invite members of faith communities different from your own to come and talk about how their community is "creating a culture of peace" and addressing issues of poverty, hunger and injustice in the world. Use OWW's Islamic and Christian Perspective Presentations as starting points to introduce these two faith perspectives.
Sports
Friendly matches or fierce competitions between parents and children, or employees and employers, can be a fun way to bring people together. Ask a prominent member of the community to open the event. Using the theme, ask everyone to reflect on what they can do to 'create a culture of peace’. Raise money for OWW or for another charity that is contributing to promoting peace and alleviating poverty and injustice in the world.
Worship
Encourage your faith community to look at issues of 'creating a culture of peace’ at home, in the community and in the world.
A great way to widen out the walls of your building is to link up with others by having a live phone interview, as OWW supporters did in Ulverston Methodist Church. They used a mobile phone and amplifier and asked people in churches in Australia, Estonia and America to lead intercessory prayers with the congregation and then talk on topics related to the theme. "It was a most moving experience to be led by someone thousands of miles away...it really did make us feel part of one world" (Rev.T.Wells).
One World Week is your chance to join thousands of others...
• to explore the links that bind us to our fellow men and women, so that we can work with them for justice and peace
• to celebrate the richness and diversity of belonging to one world
• to recognise our responsibility to care for the earth and share its resources fairly
• to challenge whatever keeps the barriers intact or strengthens them
• to reach out to all members of the community
• to bring issues of justice and peace to the centre of family, school and community life
We can't change the world overnight - or even in one week - but we can make a start.