UNITY PEACE FESTIVAL

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Contact Information:
Slade Digital
Oakland, CA
510) 302-8734
http://www.UNITYPEACEFILMPROJECT.com
“What Peace Means to Me,” Unity Peace Festival Planned
(Berkeley, CA, January 10, 2010)– Unity of Berkeley is sponsoring a Peace Festival planned for Saturday, March 20, 2010. Students, teachers and parents can create art projects, videos, music and essays using the theme “What peace means to me” (www.unityberkeley.org) and submit them to our festival.
“We have received a seed grant from Academy Award winning Berkeley film maker Saul Zaentz, producer of such film classics as One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus,” said festival organizer Emmy Award winning producer and designer Stephanie Slade of Slade Digital (www.sladedigital.com)
“Our first annual Unity Peace Festival is designed to spotlight Expressions of Peace, Personal, Powerful and Heart to Heart,” Ms. Slade said. “The event includes a stage show, key note speakers, the peace café and food court, Peace Tables for like minded non-profits, arts and crafts for peace, a ‘speak your peace’ soap box, an art show, a book signing, workshops, and a film screening”.
One of the organizers and a sponsor of the Unity Peace Festival is Takashi Tanemori who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima where he lived with his family. His father, mother, grandparents and two sisters were killed in the bombing. He survived a suicide attempt, two heart attacks and stomach cancer, and now is blind as a result of nuclear radiation from the attack.
“My anger consumed me for 40 years after many in my family died in the bombing,” Mr. Tanemori said.
"Everything I've experienced, each instant, has brought me to where I am now," he explained. "I realized my life was spared for a reason," he added.
Mr. Tanemori wrote Hiroshima: Bridge to Forgiveness, published in 2007 and will be signing his book at our festival.
“The website, www.unitypeacefilmproject.com is developing nicely,” Ms. Slade said “and will expand from a static site to a social network, available for all who feel inspired to create an essay or work of art; performance, song, poem, photograph or film and submit online,” she explained.

"We plan to have an active social online network in 2010 to manage and present each expression of peace submitted throughout the world" said Barbara Dexter, managing director of the Unity Peace Film Project.”
A documentary film about the entire project is in production, produced by Stephanie Slade of Slade Digital and the new Unity Film Ministry.
“We are actively seeking sponsors, food concessions, and organizations wanting tables. Join us as we collaborate and prepare for our Unity Peace Festival and email us at unitypeaceproject@gmail.com or contact me for more information at 510-302 8734,” Ms. Slade said.
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