General Meetings

GAPP meetings are bi-monthly on the 2nd Tuesday  at 7:30 pm.  Meetings are held in January, March, May, July (social gathering), September, and November.  All meetings except the July social gathering are held at the Friends Meeting House, 1671 Nagel Road (corner of Nagel and Blackthorn).  The July social gathering is held at a member’s home; contact info@gappeace for this year’s location.

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Advisory Board Meetings

GAPP’s Advisory Board meets twice a year in the spring and fall.  The next meeting is TBD.

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Planning Retreat

Information coming soon

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Fundraisers

Kroger Charity Shopping Card - 4% of your total is returned to GAPP

Susan’s Natural World Discount Card - 10% off all Susan’s Natural World purchases for 1 year

Amazon Sales - GAPP receives 4-8% back for sales resulting from customers who link through our site. Shop Amazon.com

GoodSearch.com - Make GoodSearch.com your search engine. Specify GAPP as your preferred charity the first time and it will remember to give us credit each time you search the web. We get 1¢ for each search -- it doesn't sound like much but if 100 people did 2 searches per day, we'd earn $730 per year!

New Year’s Day Candlelight Vigil

Our annual New Year's candlelight vigil is at the Peace Pole in Beech Acres Park on January 1 at 5:00 pm. We will share poems, music and reflections on peace – in our homes, in our communities, in our country and in our world. Bring something to share or just come and enjoy the reflective time with a spirit of community.

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High School Scholarships

GAPP again offers a scholarship to one student at each of the area high schools – Anderson, McNicholas, and Turpin; and new this year: a scholarship offered to one student in the West Clermont schools of Amelia or Glen Este. Applications are available through each school’s guidance office after January 1. The 2007 winners are: Sydney Calkin (pictured) Anderson High School; Rebecca Conrad, McNick; Shaun Kumar, Turpin; Elizabeth Rigg, West Clermont/Glen Este.
Download Scholarship Application

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Holocaust Awareness: Stories and Lessons from the Holocaust for Today

May 1, 2008 at 7:00 pm (Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day)Turpin High School Auditorium.

Werner Coppel was born in Germany in 1925. In 1943 he was sent to Auschwitz-Buna Concentration Camp and in 1945 he escaped a death march and eventually returned to Berlin after the war.Nowa Cincinnati resident and Holocaust survivor, he has been lecturing for 30 years about the Holocaust and its lessons.

The program will include a commemoration in honor of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education.

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Community Art Award

Erin Overmann of McNicholas High School was the recipient of the 2006 GAPP Community Art Award.

This annual award will be presented to eligible 7th-12th grade artists at Beech Acres’ A Fair of the Arts. First, second and third place prizes will be awarded. Entries must be received by September 14, 2007.

Click here for entry form and art criteria
Click here for list of eligible schools

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Storytelling/Tellebration

Two Harriets: Women of Courage and Vision

The inspiring stories of Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe, women who worked to end slavery, will be told by Arnice Smith and Martha McLeod. The storytelling will be followed by discussion of the inspiration they provide for today. This program is geared to middle-school and older students and adults.

April 24, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Anderson Branch Library,7450 State Road

This program is co-sponsored by the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

Tellebration 2008 will be held in November. Check back for more details.

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Book Club/Movie Discussion Night

Join us Thursday, March 27 at 7 pm at Caribou Coffee to discuss The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Annie Fadiman.

A compelling anthropological study. The Hmong people in America are mainly refugee families who supported the CIA militaristic efforts in Laos. They are a clannish group with a firmly established culture that combines issues of health care with a deep spirituality that may be deemed primitive by Western standards. In Merced, CA, which has a large Hmong community, Lia Lee was born, the 13th child in a family coping with their plunge into a modern and mechanized way of life. The child suffered an initial seizure at the age of three months. Her family attributed it to the slamming of the front door by an older sister. They felt the fright had caused the baby's soul to flee her body and become lost to a malignant spirit. The report of the family's attempts to cure Lia through shamanistic intervention and the home sacrifices of pigs and chickens is balanced by the intervention of the medical community that insisted upon the removal of the child from deeply loving parents with disastrous results. This compassionate and understanding account fairly represents the positions of all the parties involved. The suspense of the child's precarious health, the understanding characterization of the parents and doctors, and especially the insights into Hmong culture make this a very worthwhile read.

April Book Club gathering will be on April 24 at 7:00 and instead of reading a book, we will gather for GAPP's "Two Harriets" storytelling event at the Anderson branch library.

New members are always welcome. Please sign up by emailing bookclub@gappeace.org or call 588-8391. Books can be ordered at Amazon.com, with GAPP receiving a portion of the cost if you go through our link.

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