Come sing and dance up peace to the music of First nations and all world religions. We will follow with a potluck so bring a plate of food.

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About Dances of Universal Peace

(from Wikipedia)

The Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) are a spiritual practice employing singing and dancing the sacred phrases of the world’s religions. Their intention is to raise consciousness and promote peace between diverse religions according to one stated goal. The DUP are of North American Sufic origin. They combine chants from many world faiths with dancing, whirling, and a variety of movement with singing.

The Dance

Five to 500 dancers stand in a circle often around a leader and musicians, with acoustic instruments, in the centre. All dances are participatory and spectatorship is somewhat discouraged because joy is the goal, not technical performance of specified dance steps or forms. Dances are facilitated by a dance leader often playing a drum, guitar, flute or other stringed instrument. For lyrics, dances borrow inspirational poetry, quotes and chants which are sung as the dance is performed. Chants are often sacred phrases put to traditional, contemporary or occasionally improvised melodies.