ANZAC Day Reflection – Friday 25th April at 10.30am


The Marrickville Peace Group will be hosting an ANZAC Day Reflection on 25th April in the Peace Park next to Holts Crescent in Marrickville, starting at 10.30am.

The event will remember the nation’s service men and women who lost their lives during the nation’s many foreign wars.

It will also provide an opportunity to ask some hard questions about past military tragedies so we can minimise the chance of them occurring in the future.

Program

  • Introduction
  • Welcome to Country by First Nations speaker
  • ‘Songs from Next Door’ choir
  • Poetry reading
  • MPG speakers – Nick Deane and Peter Griffin
  • Additional speakers – TBA
  • A minute’s silence around the Peace Tree
  • Raffle
  • Refreshments.

A report on last year’s ANZAC Day Reflection can be accessed here.

All welcome.

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