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WATERLOO – The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) is a peace education initiative based out of the Frank and Helen Epp Peace Incubator in the MSCU Centre for Peace Advancement. Starting in the classroom, TREE aims to create peace-literate citizens with demonstrable conflict resolution skills and awareness of justice issues locally and globally. TREE programming will empower youth to think critically and evoke change in their communities. They will hone soft skills like communication, teamwork, and       empathy. 

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Knighted Conductor to visit Grebel

Sir James MacMillanThe Grand Philharmonic Choir and Conrad Grebel University College are honoured to welcome Sir James MacMillan, one of the world’s foremost living composers, as a visiting scholar and conductor. MacMillan’s music can be heard around the globe and he regularly conducts the world’s leading orchestras and choruses.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Arvo Pärt @ 80 - two concert weekend

Arvo PartThis weekend there will be 2 concerts featuring the music of Arvo Pärt to which you are invited.  Pärt, the most often performed living composer in the world, celebrated his 80th birthday this fall.  The concerts this weekend together celebrate the living legacy of this deeply spiritual and prolific composer.

Waterloo is a thriving hotbed of innovation. With tech start-ups emerging daily, there is much focus on business, technology, and entrepreneurship. Adding to this concentration of ideas and change, the MSCU Center for Peace Advancement (CPA) is joining Waterloo’s innovation ecosystem with the launch of the Frank and Helen Epp Peace Incubator.

Press Release by Harold Press

New history of Mennonites and Amish in Ontario published
Author/archivist Samuel J. Steiner produces vast volume

MENNOMEDIA, KITCHENER, Ontario, and HARRISONBURG, Va.—Conestoga wagons carried Ontario Mennonite settlers to the tangled forests of the Niagara Peninsula in the late 1700s. Since then, their descendants and more recent arrivals to the hamlets and cities of Ontario have sought promised lands of faithful living, peaceful communities, and religious freedom.