Adelaide Park Lands Art Peace Award
After a long and unavoidable wait due to COVID 19, the Finalists Exhibition for the 2020 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize were announced at the Exhinition Opening Night and VIP Preview at Adelaide Festival Centre on Friday 19 March. The Peace Foundation awarded a $1,500...
2019 – South Australian Premiere of Can Art Stop a Bullet? William Kelly’s Big Picture
Recipient of the 2018 Peace Award and $10,000 Major Grant, this feature documentary had already won a number of awards and endorsements when it made its South Australian premiere at the Adelaide Fringe Festival on Thursday, March 5th. With special guests,...
2018 and 2019 – Peace Foundation at Womadelaide
In 2018 and 2019 the Peace Foundation was part of the Womadelaide community with a stall at the popular world music festival. Over the four days Peace Foundation volunteers helped festival-goers to make hundreds of colourful peace cranes to decorate the trees and...
2010 (25 September) Exhibition – Wolfgang Sievers – the dignity of labour
This collection of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers was gifted to Julian Burnside by Sievers prior to his death, to be sold for the benefit of human rights causes. The collection was exhibited by the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation in collaboration with Julian Burnside...
2012 – Branson Oration – 14th June
Rights, hearts and minds: Towards a national culture of Human Rights, delivered by the Hon Catherine Branson QC, President Australian Human Rights Commission. An opportunity to hear Hon Catherine Branson QC speak before she stepped down as President of the Australian...
2014 – Artists Make the Difference
Displayed at the Adelaide Festival Centre to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Peace Foundation. Curated by emerging curator Coby Edgar this exhibition paid homage to artists whose work interpreted the aims of the Peace Foundation over the past 25 years. As Coby...
2015 Speak Up, Reach Out
The launch of Speak Up, Reach Out: A life to reckon with, a memoir by Graham F. Smith. Celebrating a life well lived, the publication of this book was an important milestone for the Peace Foundation that bears his name. It was officially launched by Professor Barbara...
2016 – South Australian Premiere of On the Banks of the Tigris,
The Graham F Smith Peace presented the South Australian premiere of the award winning documentary On the Banks with special guest Majid Shokor. This award winning documentary tells Majid’s wonderful story as a refugee from Iraq who wants to know the origins of the...
2016 – Building Blocks of Peace High Tea
A high tea to commemorate International Peace Day – bringing peace groups (Quakers, Baha’i, Psychologists for Peace, UNAA SA, Sophia and the Peace Foundation) together in fellowship. Featured at the High Tea was an exhibition of works by South Australia’s own iconic...
2017 – State of Harmony Cocktail Party
A prestigious fundraising State of Harmony Cocktail Party to celebrate community inclusivity on Harmony Day, 21st of March. Special guest speaker was the inspiring Henry Olonga who shared his life story – from Zimbabwe’s first black international cricketer (protesting...