Peace camp + PEACE PARADE
2026 Peace Parade - May 31
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Our FIRST CHILDREN’S PEACE PARADE…
in 2024 was part community fair, part family picnic, and part summer camp! We collaborated with a number of local organizations representing different issues that impact children and families (Sunrise Mvmt KC! KC Tenants! KC Family Bike Ride! TransJoy KC! Al-Hadaf!)
Attendees visited activity stations, learned about organizations they can get involved in, and had a whole lot of fun marching together and learning protest songs!
In summer 2025, we returned with more educational programming… In collaboration with Dr. Jen Lacy, founder of PH Community School, we offered a series of Peace Camp teach-ins leading up to the parade!
2025 Programming
To close out our Peace Camp teach-in series, we gathered on July 27th for a community picnic and our second Children’s Peace Parade!
Kids shared their art and zines, we connected with other families, & visited activity stations hosted by local organizations working for a more peaceful Kansas City.
We ended with a parade around the park with the Sass-a-Brass band!!!
Teach-ins
Teach-ins
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. Or, I am saying, in other words, that we, the elders, are the only models children have. What we see in the children is what they have seen in us–or, more accurately perhaps, what they see in us.”
― James Baldwin, The Nation, November 1, 1980