Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome Presents

Recapping
Summer of
Hope
Peace
Joy
Opportunity
2024
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The Peace Pit Experience

For 15 weeks, The Peace Pit stopped in neighborhoods across the city to share a message of hope, push a narrative of peace, and open the mic to our BR people to join the conversation of how to make Baton Rouge safe, hopeful, and healthy.
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What is Summer of Hope?

Summer of Hope is a community-led initiative focused on peace, joy, and opportunity. It is a Safe Hopeful Healthy Baton Rouge initiative and activation leveraging community organizations and events. This collective impact strategy is bringing hope directly to neighborhoods, streets, and families that have experienced violence.

Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome Presents

june - july 2022
community collective impact for peace | progress | prosperity

Joy lives in Baton Rouge and hope starts with YOU! Are you ready for summer? Summer of Hope is an 8-week Safe Hopeful Healthy Baton Rouge initiative and activation leveraging community organizations and events. This collective impact strategy is bringing hope directly to neighborhoods, streets, and families that have experienced violence.

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Upcoming Events

Check back weekly for new events that highlight joy, ignite real discussions, and actively reach out to our community.
Summer of Hope 2024 lineup of events will be updated in the upcoming weeks! Stay tuned.
Sharing The Collective Voice of
Baton Rouge

Hearing from the community is the first step to healing together, expressing unique experiences, and sharing in both hope and joy. The Peace Pitstop encourages peace, joy and opportunity across the city and provides an outlet for every voice in Baton Rouge. Through poetry, artwork, surveys, and more–we're on a mission to push peace to every neighborhood.

Upcoming Event

Uncommon Allies Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Film Uncommon Allies shows how Rosilyn, in the wake and devastation of her son’s murder, turned a personal search for justice into a life changing community call to action.

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Areas of Focus

Over the next 8 weeks, we plan to focus our events and outreach to the following areas in East Baton Rouge Parish.

banks

zion

brookstown

melrose east

belaire

glen oaks

bottoms

tigerland

the park

dixie

gardere

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