English — peacewave festival — Für mehr Toleranz, Umweltschutz und Weltfrieden!

1st APRIL 2024

**PEACEMARCH * SEA OF LIGHTS * HELDENPLATZ * VIENNA**

Come with your friends and join us in demanding more tolerance, environmental protection and world peace!

Participation is free and organized on a voluntary basis by hiking for peace www.hikingforpeace.org
There is no need to register - please just come along!

We look forward to seeing flags and posters for peace, tolerance and environmental protection, but please note that national, political and ethnic symbols, flags or chants are not allowed.
Together as people, we set an example for more tolerance, environmental protection and worldpeace and want to move closer together as a society instead of polarizing through national, political or ethnic symbols.
Compassion for people, animals and the planet is the driving force that saves us as a society. Compassion arises from the consideration that we are only born into a good life by chance and we could just as easily have been born in poverty, in a war zone or in an area affected by heat, water scarcity or environmental disasters due to climate change and would have to flee.

Please bring your cell phone or an electric light to the SEA OF LIGHTS at 8:30 p.m. and food and drinks for the time you are there.
The sea of lights will also take place in other locations at the same time.
If you cannot attend a sea of lights, you can also put a candle in your window or walk it to your front door at 8:30 p.m.

Please help us and contact friends in other countries who can put candles in their windows or organize sea of lights in their area. April 1st 2024, please put a candle in your window every evening as a sign that you demand that those responsible make a commitment to more tolerance, environmental protection and world peace! If we set an example together, we can change the world!

PROGRAM

8:45 a.m.

meeting at Rathaus in Schwechat, Rathausplatz 9, 2320 Schwechat

9:00 a.m.

meet and greet by city councilor Marco Luksch and Isabella Haschke from Hiking for peace

coffee, tea and cakes

9:45 a.m. peacemarch

departure to Vienna

22 km to Heldenplatz - Vienna

12:00 p.m.

Vienna Peace Pagoda

break: please bring food and drinks with you

departure 12:30 p.m.

14km to Heldenplatz - Vienna

2:30 p.m.

at the corner Wagramer Straße/ Schüttaustraße

Performance "Volatile moments for a different future
[step two]” by Navina Neverla

break and meeting point, departure 3:15 p.m.

6km to Heldenplatz

5:15 p.m. Heldenplatz

presenter Miriam Labus

welcome and opening speech by Isabella Haschke from Hiking for peace

video message by federal president Alexander Van der Bellen

speech by Matthias Grümayer for Buddhism in Austria and reading of the message from Dalai Lama

speech by the First Imam of Islamische Religionsgemeinde Wien Ermin Sehic for Islamische Glaubensgemeinschaft Österreich

speech by climate scientist Helga Kromp-Kolb

speech by P. Siegfried M. Kettner for Salesianer Don Bosco and Ordensgemeinschaften Österreich and reading of the message from auxiliary bishop Stephan Turnovszky

speech by Anja Spengler for Bahá’í Religionsgemeinschaft Österreich

6:00 p.m.

satirist and musician Harald Pomper with band

against climate crisis and consumer society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZ7OjOmspM

6:45 p.m.

Nadia Baha, founder of the label Chanceover, reads „Handbuch gegen den Krieg“ (Handbook against the war) by Marlene Streeruwitz

7:00 p.m.

WanDeRer

Yiddish songs, Klezmer and Balkan music against war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwZEnG4L44I

8:00 p.m.

young actors from the theater club Lessingtheater-Wien are playing the scene “Signing the world peace pact ” from the play “The new monkey” by Isabella Haschke

8:30 p.m. sea of lights

against racism, for more tolerance, environmental protection and world peace