Fairfield, Conn. – Sacred Heart University will host a festival of love, peace and understanding through the arts to celebrate United Nations Day. The event, free and open to the public, will take place in the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 24, at 4 P.M. There will be refreshments.

The Youth Band for the United Nations, under the direction of John Yoon, will offer music for world peace, and there will be a special presentation of a video exploring the Millennium Development Grants, with Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

The guest speaker will be Patrick Sciarratta, who will discuss “Youth-Led Development: The UN and a Global Future of Peace.” He is executive director of the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation and cofounder of the annual Youth Assembly of the United Nations. He is also the editor of the NGO Reporter, which is distributed to 3,000 UN-affiliated NGOs worldwide.

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