Posted 7:59 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012
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Get ready to rock at a UW-L block party Friday, Sept. 21, in the name of peace.
UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow and his high-energy band, the FurLow Riders, will play a celebratory Peace Day concert from 8-9:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in Valhalla, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition. The concert is the grand finale to UW-L’s celebration of "Peace One Day Week," Sept. 17-21.
The FurLow Riders play classic blues and rock and members include Gow; Bart VanVoorhis, professor of psychology, and Nizam Arain, director of affirmative action; with special guests UW-Rock County Dean Carmen Wilson and UW-L University Relations Specialist Kjerstin Lang. The band formed in the fall of 2009 in light of Wisconsin’s state-imposed furlough days for public employees. The band continues to entertain both on and off campus.
Peace One Day is a not-for-profit organization that aims to inspire a day of cease-fire and nonviolence. UW-L is joining the globe in dedicating one week in September for this purpose and to celebrate Peace Day Sept. 21. The week will consist of speakers, the viewing of a documentary film about what's wrong with the world and how we can help fix it, a vigil at Riverside Park in downtown La Crosse and other events.
During the Friday night concert there will be a ceremonial planting of a six-foot-tall peace pole at 14th and Pine streets. On the pole it will read "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in four languages. For more information on Peace One Day week visit the campus calendar.
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Get ready to rock at a UW-L block party Friday, Sept. 21, in the name of peace.
UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow and his high-energy band, the FurLow Riders, will play a celebratory Peace Day concert from 8-9:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in Valhalla, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition. The concert is the grand finale to UW-L’s celebration of "Peace One Day Week," Sept. 17-21.
The FurLow Riders play classic blues and rock and members include Gow; Bart VanVoorhis, professor of psychology, and Nizam Arain, director of affirmative action; with special guests UW-Rock County Dean Carmen Wilson and UW-L University Relations Specialist Kjerstin Lang. The band formed in the fall of 2009 in light of Wisconsin’s state-imposed furlough days for public employees. The band continues to entertain both on and off campus.
Peace One Day is a not-for-profit organization that aims to inspire a day of cease-fire and nonviolence. UW-L is joining the globe in dedicating one week in September for this purpose and to celebrate Peace Day Sept. 21. The week will consist of speakers, the viewing of a documentary film about what's wrong with the world and how we can help fix it, a vigil at Riverside Park in downtown La Crosse and other events.
During the Friday night concert there will be a ceremonial planting of a six-foot-tall peace pole at 14th and Pine streets. On the pole it will read "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in four languages. For more information on Peace One Day week visit the campus calendar.