FESTIVAL; Increase the Peace Festival

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Increase the Peace is a community festival, now in its 4th successful year. The idea was born from the work community creative, Claire Armstrong does at Bournemouth & Poole College teaching ESOL to second language learners, including separated children seeking asylum and adult learners.

Because of these people’s journeys and perspective they have given her, she decided to create an event to envelope peace and promote inclusivity, where diverse groups from Dorset can connect and enjoy music, spoken word and art, whilst having fun in the sun (fingers crossed). Her main drive is to promote cross-cultural understanding and acceptance of others. Claire truly believes that if we take time to appreciate other human stories then we can reduce conflict and therefore create more peace.

Increase the Peace has become an umbrella project over the last…