Celebrating the Int’l Day of Peace & the 80th Anniversary of the U.N.
We Rise as One!
A Celebration of Connection,
Compassion & Hope
September 27th • Grace Cathedral • San Francisco
Soul-Stirring Concert and Celebration
The Unity In Community
Peace Concert
A Musical Gathering to Unite, Heal and Inspire
Saturday, September 27th, 8:00 PM
Hosted and Musically Directed by Gary Malkin
Featured Performers & Wisdom Keepers
The Brothers Koren | Bob Sima | Amykaeyla Gaston | Michael Fecskes | Eliahu Sills | Mika Scott | Jyoti Ma | Shakti Durga | Bishop William Swing | Tubby Love | Hope Fitzgerald | Lisa Rafel | Piper Dellums
And many more, so stay tuned!
“This isn’t just an event,” says Emmy-winning composer and musical director Gary Malkin.
“It’s a ritual of remembrance, a space to come home to our shared humanity, and to discover what’s still possible when we lead with unity instead of fear.”
Global Broadcast for the Peace Concert is available through Hubcast Media.
The Workshop
Graceful Passages:
Rising Together from Grief to Gratitude
September 27th, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm PT
(Limited to 70 Participants)
“The broken heart is not a problem—it’s the portal.”
A soul-nourishing grief literacy and resilience immersion guided by spiritual guide and author, Hope Fitzgerald, and the co-creator of the globally acclaimed “Graceful Passages” listening resource, Emmy-winning composer, Gary Malkin. This intimate, transformative workshop uses guided meditations, intimate dyads, shared stories, sacred ceremony, and inspiring music to transmute unspoken sorrow into gratitude, compassion, and personal power.
“This workshop invites us to meet sorrow with reverence, release what no longer serves, and rise shining—ready to offer our fullest gifts to a world in need. This is soul-medicine for our time.”
— Jyoti Ma, International Elder & Wisdom Keeper
Networking Gathering
Community is the canvas
where we paint the masterpiece of unity.
September 27th, 6:30 – 7:30 pm PT
Before the concert, gather with fellow peacebuilders, nonprofit leaders, and creative visionaries to exchange ideas, spark collaborations, and reaffirm your role in shaping a more compassionate, unified world.
JOIN US!
Saturday, September 27th, 2025
In times of fear, uncertainty and doubt, we are being called to remember who we truly are, members of one human family.
WE RISE AS ONE! is a one-day, three-part global healing event designed to mend the fractures of our collective psyche through music, universal wisdom, ritual, and the unity we can celebrate in the context of community.
Held in the sacred heart of San Francisco’s iconic Grace Cathedral, this transformational, musically-infused experience is not just an event, it is a catalytic moment to reclaim our shared humanity through awe, reverence and remembrance.
A Unity in Community Experience™ Produced by
Pathways To Peace with the Global Wisdom Foundation
in association with Grace Cathedral
WHY NOW?
“In a world accelerating toward artificial everything,
music returns us to what’s real.”
With polarization rising, truth in the cross hairs, wars escalating, and spiritual fatigue growing, we feel called to offer our communities consistent experiences that nourish what unites us.
WE RISE AS ONE! is a prayer in motion, a beacon of what’s still possible when we rise together, in unity and peace.
The Mission
To interrupt the isolating narratives of “us vs. them” and instead:
- Inspire heart-centered unity
- Transmute personal and collective grief into gratitude and grace
- Celebrate multi-generational, multi-cultural, and multi-spiritual belonging
- Create exciting ways in which music, wisdom, and the performing arts can unite us
- Seed a scalable model of healing gatherings in cities around the world
“Community doesn’t just unite us…
it transforms our shared pain into collective power.”
“Peace isn’t made — it’s remembered in the spaces where we unite.”
Join the Movement
Whether you attend live or join the globally streamed broadcast, you are part of something larger: a global prayer, a collective remembering, a spark of the world that could be. We rise not alone, but together.
Join us in co-creating a sacred, scalable spark for peace…
Expanded in love, lifted by wisdom, guided by purpose, and grounded in compassion.
Because peace is impossible without unity and unity
is impossible without healing.
Donate in support of this cause
To find out about how you can host a Unity in Community Experience in your area, go here or contact us.
We Rise as One! is co-hosted by the San Francisco Bay Area Culture of Peace Collaborative
Our Production Partners
Our Sponsoring Organizations
