Our Mission
One of our favorite quotes comes from the film Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins and about
the scholar and author C. S. Lewis: "We read to know that we're not alone!"
To know we are not alone, we humbly submit, is to appeal to a human need to understand and to be
understood.
To understand and to be understood is to contribute to peace: inner peace, peace in the home, peace
in the community, peace in the nation, and peace in the world!
We believe that, not only do we read to know that we are not alone, but that we also create and
enjoy theatre to know that we are not alone, that we create and enjoy music to know that we are not
alone, and that we create and enjoy art to know that we are not alone!
We believe that to be creative is to know that we are not alone. We believe all people are creative!
Our mission at Center Stage is to use our creative resources to promote peace!
Toward that end, we submit the following:
We will feature a display in our bookstore devoted to books that promote peace.
Included in this display will be a wonderful booklet called Steps toward Inner Peace and a biography
of the author of that booklet, a wonderful legendary figure of peace known as Peace Pilgrim!
(www.peacepilgrim.com)
This booklet and book will be available, free of charge, to all who are interested. See our book
display tonight!
We will, henceforth, be serving a Fair Trade coffee, known as Peace Coffee!
"The Fair Trade philosophy is simple. Peace Coffee is purchased directly from small farmer
cooperatives throughout the world at a price that ensures a just income for coffee growers. No
one human becomes obscenely rich by making another human disgracefully poor. Fair Trade
coffee is grown by small, organized cooperatives of farmers. Lives are given a fair chance to
flourish. Businesses are driven by a desire to fairly exchange and share the benefits of the
world's second most traded commodity after oil. Fair Trade is simply fair-minded thinking put
into practice. Peace Coffee purchases directly from coffee cooperatives at a guaranteed
minimum price ensuring the farmers a livable wage. Enjoy a soulful cup that produces equitable
profits for farmers, fewer impoverished people, and widespread hope."
It's simple! It's fair! It always tastes better!
Peace Pals is a program designed to encourage young people ages
5-15 to become peacemakers dedicated to living in the spirit of the
words: May Peace Prevail on Earth.
the diversity and oneness of the human family and the natural
world through the arts, education, communication and
friendship.
By nurturing inner peace and global awareness in the leaders of
tomorrow, Peace Pals will help create a future where peace and
harmony become a way of life.
Workshops
A series of workshops
throughout the year to
acknowledge the connection
between mind, body, and spirit!
"Being Home"
a mini-retreat for women, with
Francesca Scarpa!
More information coming to our
website soon!
It is our goal to continue to
present theatre and music events
which entertain, which make us
laugh, which make us cry, which
make us think, which cross
cultural lines, which help us to
understand relationships, which
assist us in understanding
ourselves, and which help us to
know that we are not alone!
A series of free, one hour
lectures on topics which inform,
inspire, and promote knowledge
and understanding of self and
other, presented by local
creative residents.
We welcome your input and suggestions! Write to us at Centerstageshelton@sbcglobal.net
or call
924-2622
