The Pacifist Gallery Project at Casa Ridgway

Thank you for your interest in our Pacifist Gallery Project at Casa Ridgway. This is an important branch of the Peace Center's larger scale Pacifista Gallery Project.

The project at Casa Ridgway is an endeavor to simultaneously improve the quality of our hostel rooms and further integrate Casa Ridgway into the mission of the Center. Currently, our rooms at Casa Ridgway are basic—containing a bed, four walls, a roof and in some cases a few other amenities such as a desk and chair. Well, we have plans to change all that. We are going to dedicate each and every room at Casa Ridgway to a pacifist (a peacemaker). Imagine coming here and finding your room dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a framed picture of him and a quote from his “I have a Dream Speech” on the wall.

Visualize waking up to a painting of children of all different races holding hands in peace on the wall right in front of your bed. Envision a short biography outlining the importance of Dr. King’s accomplishments on a bedside table with a new lamp under which to read it. Now imagine a similar room for Gandhi, Albert Einstein (yes, he was much more than a scientist), Mother Teresa, George Fox, Archbishop Romero and many others.

The Pacifist Gallery Project at Casa Ridgway is one of the ways we at the Peace Center want to help promote understanding and peace in the world. The purpose of Casa Ridgway is not only to provide you with a safe, affordable, and friendly place to stay, but also to help promote the workshops, conferences and written material of the Peace Center in our effort as a source of information on peace. It is with these efforts in mind that we wish to more deeply integrate Casa Ridgway into the mission of our Center.

To learn more about the individual pacifists who will be in our gallery project, please visit our Pacifist Gallery Online.

If you wish to make a donation, please click here.