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“Dear Peace” Tour
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Nov11

I am now in Cebu to start a 19-day (11-29 Nov 2007) trip to the Visayas and Mindanao. My other stops are Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Marawi, and Cotabato.

I am traveling with a team from the Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) and our job is to do a traveling exhibit called “Dear Peace”. The exhibit is the output of a peace camp entitled “Impressions of Conflict, Expressions of Peace” held early last year in Antipolo. The participants of the camp were Muslim and Christian high school students of Ramon Avanceña High School in Manila. During the five-day camp, the 29 participants were given crash courses on essay-writing, watercolor painting, ethnic music, photography, videography, and theater arts. The purpose of the camp was to empower and encourage the participants to become peacemakers through creative expression.

The mobile exhibit features the artistic works of the participants, i.e. videos, essays, paintings, and photographs. Another important part of the exhibit is the showing of a 30-minute video also titled “Dear Peace”, which documents what happened before, during and after the peace camp. I co-directed and co-edited the video docu with Sheila del Mundo. The script was written by the participants themselves.

We will set up our exhibits in malls, schools and religious institutions.

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16 CommentsLeave a comment »

12 November 2007

Athens said:

pads, let me know when your in davao. id love to check out your exhibit and maybe i can show you around town.
12 November 2007

Gilbert said:

Father! Please drop by Xavier University High School – Ateneo de Cagayan!

Drop me an email! Thanks!
12 November 2007

lulu said:

The video is very moving and it gives us hope for a better world.

It teaches us
not to discriminate, but to be sympathetic;
not to be judgmental, but to be understanding;
and to open our minds and our hearts with respect to our fellowmen. Through these, we will have our chance to live in harmony and in unity.

Congratulations to CFA on this project and I pray that more people will be able to see your video. More power to all the people involved in this project. God bless!
13 November 2007

ROSES said:

Good Luck to the team and to you too for putting/bringing together this project moving around midden/southern part of the Philippines island and
spreading this good beautiful meassage DEAR PEACE.
I hope/wish it will be a very fruitful/successful
journey(Dear Peace)Tour.
13 November 2007

Fr. Stephen, MSC said:

@ Athens – We will be in Davao City from Nov 21 to 25. I hope to see you there.
@ Gilbert – We will be in Cagayan de Oro from Nov 28-29. I hope to meet you there.
@ Lulu – thanks so much for your encouraging words.
@ Roses – we also hope that our traveling exhibiting will truly be fruitful.
13 November 2007

Ms. B. said:

dear father Stephen,
I was trully awed by this video, coz Im quite interested about your processes in the entire film making. You see father, I’m always thriled with computer graphics and video tricks and movie hints and everything that has to do with a camera, whether still shots or ambulatory. Movie making simply tickles my fancy at times. The audio was great too, though echoes went banging inside the church every so often. This is a fantastic effort! And i bow to you Padre!

Congratulations father! It was splendid!
13 November 2007

mench said:

hi!
I informed my AP co-trainors in cebu about your PEACE TOUR. They are interested but don’t know where the venue of the exhibit.
14 November 2007

ROSES said:

Video of the Week I did listened them and they are all good but one of them catch more my feeling attention facinate me. The painting the Face of our
God JESUS CHRIST. The person who paint the face of our Lord the movement of his fingers/hand by using colored powder chalks very amazing. I really appreciate how his talent show/shared to us. I thank this person. The song Above all/names/things very touchful beautiful and meaningful it give a broad message of Love Passion and Peace to all. Thank you very much above other things I guess God’s Love you
so much which always send blessing hugs kiss thru the wind to show gratitude.
19 November 2007

sheilarouge said:

You can watch “Dear Peace” on TV Maria on:

December 1, 2007 – 10am & 7pm
December 2, 2007 – 3:30am
December 9, 2007 – 11am & 7pm
December 10, 2007 – 3am

TV Maria is Channel 21 on Dream Satellite
Channel 93 on Destiny Cable
Channel 17 on Unicable Cebu
Channel 13 on ASAP Tagudin
29 November 2007

gyk said:

wow! good luck on your tour! hope you can also have it here in pampanga.
29 November 2007

michael said:

oh, i missed the dear peace tour here in USC Main, the moment i read the notification at the door i found out that it was the other day…
but thanks to you fr.bobby in teaching young fellas with rich learnings… be blessed!!!
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be Loved Everywhere!
Now and Forever!
1 December 2007

den said:

pads hello,

how are you? i thought ur already in rome. the video is so cooool. can i request the link of the video, i also want to share this also to my community and we can use this also to our youth ministry.

thanks.
12 December 2007

Malou Pimentel said:

Padre, nabisitahan na gyud nimo akong beloved city of Cagayan de Oro…sayang, I couldn’t be there to greet you.Hope you had a wonderful time there sa inyong mission for the youth.They just need this kind of reaching-out encounter or creative expressions. Buon’Apostolato, Padre !
18 December 2007

Fr. Stephen, MSC said:

Malou, nindot kaayo akong experience sa Cagayan de Oro. Positive kaayo ang reception ug reaction sa mga CDO students sa among exhibit ug video.
16 October 2008

jo said:

I am looking for this video in some commercial bookstores but can’t find one.
16 October 2008

Fr. Stephen, MSC said:

@jo – for now the Dear Peace video is not available in commercial stores. It can only be bought from Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) sales reps. You may visit CFA’s website here: http://www.cfamedia.org