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Community event

Thursday November 21

On Wings of Peace by The Westside Orchestra

Sat 7 Dec 2024 6:00pm Sat 7 Dec 2024 7:30pm

Church Hall
St Paul’s, Ashgrove
10 Jubilee Terrace,
Ashgrove

The Westside Orchestra, a community ensemble encouraging adult players to continue to enjoy playing their orchestral instrument, is joined by former Queensland Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Warwick Adeney to perform “The Lark Ascending” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with guest conductor Nicky Griffith. Tickets: $15 adult, $10 concession, $5 child, and $25 family (two adults and two children). See more.

Craig Foster giving a lecture in St John's Cathedral

2023 Brisbane Peace Lecture

“The provision of basic human rights, and indeed peace itself that is so much under challenge right now in Europe and elsewhere, only come through the actions of people like you and I, and rooms like this all across Australia and throughout the world,” says Craig Foster

The 12th annual International Day of Peace event (including the presenting of the Locals Agents of Peace Awards) was held at St John's Cathedral on 21 September 2023

Peace building celebrated as St John’s Cathedral hosts Brisbane’s International Day of Peace commemorations

An up-close look at an actual Nobel Peace Prize medal, a keynote speech by renowned social justice activist, broadcaster and footballer Craig Foster AM and two Local Agents of Peace Awards were among this year’s St John’s Cathedral International Day of Peace highlights

Community engagement: partnering to connect with the wider community

“We were blessed to have a full house for Living Waters — there was a moment as we were getting ready to open the doors when we thought we might have to turn people away, but thankfully we managed to squeeze in some extra seats,” says formation student Lydia Fairhall, as she shares about a recent short film community engagement initiative