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# There will be peace at Santa Monica Beach today
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/there-will-be-peace-at-santa-monica-beach-today/
- Published: 2003-02-15T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:35:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Ocean Park, #archive-import

*Music, speakers and peace planned today on the beach*

*By Daily Press staff*

There will be peace in at least one place in the world today and it happens to be in Santa Monica.

Peace on the Beach, a three-hour event today at the west end of Ocean Park Boulevard, will highlight music, speakers and meditation in an effort to find peaceful solutions to events around the world. Organizers say it is an opportunity to come together and celebrate the power of peace.

It will involve thousands of people who want to send a visually clear message in our country and to the world that war is obsolete and peace is the only solution. Participants will be asked to form a human peace symbol on the sand for an aerial photo.

Peace on the Beach starts with two simultaneous gatherings: ■ Noon to 12:30 p.m. — silent meditation on Ocean Park Beach (where Ocean Park Boulevard meets the sand) ■ Noon to 12:30 p.m. — peace walk from Venice to Ocean Park Beach (meet at Windward Avenue and Ocean Front Walk, south of Rose Avenue and north of Venice Boulevard.) Participants are encouraged to arrive at 11:45 a.m.

Organizers say the event encourages an understanding of the difficult realities in maintaining peace, but it supports viable and peaceful solutions available to U.S. government — solutions we can only demand or hope to achieve by our own individual daily efforts for peace, they say.

It will be an afternoon of awareness and empowerment to take back into our lives, our communities, and our perceptions of people and events around the globe, organizers say.

Peace on the Beach has support from many Los Angeles neighborhoods, political groups, religious organizations, and culturally diverse people of all ages. Bring the kids — they will inherit everything that comes from these moments, organizers say.

Event schedule: 1-2 p.m. — Speakers, spoken word and music Scheduled speakers: Rev. Michael Beckwith, Agape church Tom Hayden Blase Bonpane Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran and author of “Born on the Fourth of July”

Eisha Mason Kevin McKeown, Santa Monica Mayor pro tem Jodie Evans, Code Pink and recent traveler to Baghdad Spoken word artists, Joshua, Rives and Cesar Cruz Readings from several spiritual traditions and indigenous people. 2 p.m. — Formation of Picasso inspired peace symbol Aerial artist John Quigley will create a human peace symbol. (Dark blue or solid color shirt will help aerial photo.) The U.N. recently covered Picasso’s “Guernica,” a painting depicting the horrors of war, as Colin Powell addressed the Security Council. Quigley will guide and shape over 1,000 people on Saturday, as they become Picasso’s “Face of Peace.” 1– 3:15 p.m. — Music Program includes: Agape Director, Rickie Byars Beckwith and The Agape Sound.

Additional guest performers to date: Acclaimed guitarist, SLASH, Lead singer for LIVE, Ed Kowalczk, Violinist and signer Lili Haydn, Drummer Ravi Jakhotia, Guitarists Stephen Fiske and Ed Munter, Western Shakuhachi master David Zasloff, Janet Planet, and Drum Circle facilitators, Ron La Pointe and Stephanie Buffington.

Organizers ask Santa Monica and other local residents to walk, bike, or carpool.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 15, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021503.pdf?ref=smdp.com)