San Francisco Peace and Hope 2015 Fest

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San Francisco, CA (1888PressRelease) February 05, 2015 - The San Francisco Peace and Hope 2015 Fest is a celebration of the arts, honoring the Bay area literary spirit. Kit Kennedy will be the emcee and the program will include readings and presentations by the poets and artists in the publication. Harp music will be performed by musician songwriter Patrice Haan. Refreshments provided!

San Francisco Peace and Hope is an online and print journal that promotes peace through poetry, writing and visual art. Al Young, California's former poet laureate, serves as the advisor, and has written the magazine's foreword.

Sunday, February 22, 2015, 1-4pm
San Francisco Peace and Hope 2015 Fest
A Woman's Eye Gallery
678 Portola Dr, San Francisco, CA 94127
www.sfpeaceandhope.com.

List of participants:
- Kit Kennedy: Emcee
- Patrice Haan: Musician songwriter will perform during reception
- Introductory remarks by Elizabeth Hack, Founding director.

Poets reading:
- Al Young, California's former poet laureate
- Erica Goss, poet laureate of Los Gatos
- Susan Gangel
- José Luis Gutiérrez
- Patrice Haan
- Sherri Rose-Walker
- Vince Storti Publisher Editor of North Coast Literary Review
- Nancy Wakeman.

Artists presenting:
- Pam Borrelli
- Lena Levin
- Carolyn H. WarmSun.

Who We Are
September 11 2001 hearts and lives were broken, our emotional reference system to what makes our world make sense fractured at best. On September 12, 2001, SF Peace and Hope was born.

For me, this experience is like being in the desert without visual anchors; a stark, solitary confinement of too much illogical space and suddenly out of a mysterious pocket of earth is a peacock. He fluffs his feathers up high and wide. He shows us our humanity and our beauty in the midst of dust and death.

The eyes of the peacock's feathers are said to be the symbol of eternal life; renewal, the eyes of the stars seeing us in our-in the words of Al Young-"deathless truths". The poems in SF Peace and Hope are those stars beaded into the large plume of humanity-they say simply, 'we are bigger than politics and even death, we have the strength of a renewing spirit'. - Niya C. Sisk

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