Peace Alive

Peace Alive! an event happening at the Mellon Institute April 8, is a celebration of the human potential for positive change present in each one of us. Peace Alive! features the great Chinese poet , Huang Xiang. Huang Xiang, has been called a “Wild Beast Poet”, and a “Poet on Fire” who burns as a lamp of freedom and enlightenment. He was frequently tortured and spent twelve years in Chinese prisons for writing his free-spirited poetry and for his advocacy for human rights in China. Also at Peace Alive! East meets West with the music of Mimi Jong, faculty and student poets of CMU, Tibetan lama Tempa Dukte Lama, Chinese-Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Ani Drubgyudma, the collaboration paintings of Huang Xiang and William Rock.

Sponsored by CMU’s Student Development Office, Peace Alive! is free and begins at 8 pm, April 8th, 2nd floor Auditorium at the Mellon Institute. A reception to meet the participants will follow in the Social Room after t!
he event.

Weblink for Peace Alive!:
http://centurymountain.googlepages.com/peacealive%21melloninstituteapril8
Weblink for Huang Xiang’s bio:
http://centurymountain.googlepages.com/biosandphotos