International Peace Day: Two Opportunities to Celebrate	Print Issue
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Participants learn to make paper cranes at last year’s International Peace Day Offering: Origami Paper Cranes at the Penn Museum.

Experience two opportunities to celebrate peace this month in honor of the United Nations 2016 International Day of Peace (officially September 21).

International House will host Philadelphia’s first International Peace Day Festival & Market in partnership with Penn Global and Peace Day Philly on September 21. This free outdoor festival will take place from 4-7 p.m. on the front patio of International House and in Innovation Plaza, which is adjacent to International House.  The festival will feature music, performances, Peace Day activities, international food trucks, local vendors and more as participants celebrate and encourage peace and understanding among people of all cultures and nations. Scheduled performances so far include: PENNaach, the University of Pennsylvania’s all-female South Asian fusion dance troupe; Penn Atma, the University of Pennsylvania’s all-female South Asian fusion a cappella group; and Project Capoeira, which will share the art of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, games, music and dance. 

After the festival, enjoy a free Peace Day Philly screening of The Same Heart, a powerful documentary about the impacts of inequality on the world’s children—with a prescription for change at 7 p.m. in the Ibrahim Theater at International House.

On September 24, joining Peace Day Philly, the Penn Museum invites guests of all ages to create origami paper cranes—a symbol of peace—at an afternoon craft table. Guests can write their own messages of peace on the cranes, creating one crane to hang on a special peace display and a second crane to share with a fellow museum visitor.