The Pacific Arts Alliance

In recognition of the usefulness of the literary, visual and performance arts can play in fostering a culture of peace and tolerance in a highly polarized and complex situation as Zimbabwe today.  Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights invites you to a free Tolerance & Towards peace Poetry Recital and Discussion Forum @ the US Embassy Public Affairs Section Auditorium 7th Floor Goldbridge on Tuesday 27 January 2009 from 1500HRS to 1700HRS

The event aspires to use spoken word to highlight the need for a culture of peace and tolerance in our highly polarized society irregardless of political differences and ideological orientation in pursuit of the collective will.  The choice of the medium of enlightenment to convey the message is both a celebration of the non-violent means of conflict resolution as well as a plea for the need to open up space for objective intellectual debate and tolerance of divergent views and not only  freedom to express but the ability to remain free afterwards. The interactive nature of the forum is helpful in getting the community to have a sense of ownership of the project and galvanize them into subsuming selfish individual interests in respect of the other person's and indeed the collective human rights.

"There is no progression without contraries" William Blake