Mother’s Day for Peace

The Peace Education Center, a Lansing-area community organization that works to “promote compassion and awareness of the potential for interdependence, lasting peace and nonviolent solutions to world, national and local conflicts,” will host its second annual Mother’s Day fundraising concert 7 p.m. Friday (May 10) at the Allen Market Place on Kalamazoo Street.

The event will feature a performance by the Dangling Participles, a Lansing-based band with a setlist ranging from indie-folk and Americana to jazz and pop covers, plus original songs. It will will also include a speech by a representative of the Palestinian American Medical Association, a nonprofit organization that promotes health care in Palestine, and an appearance by Julia Ward Howe, who initiated the first Mother’s Day celebration in 1870 with her Mother’s Day proclamation calling for an end to war.

Snacks will be provided, and the Peace Education Center will sell Mother’s Day cards and flowers.

The suggested donation for the event is $25, which can be paid at the door or at peaceedcenter.org/event/mothers-day-for-peace-2024. Proceeds will benefit the Peace Education Center and the Palestinian American Medical Association.