Valentine’s Day has traditionally been a day for romance, but a local organization says Friday night will be a time for peace.

Student organization Time For Peace is collaborating with local DJ group Subconscious Collective for “Love Thy Neighbor: A Valentine’s Party for Peace,” an all-evening event designed to raise funds and awareness for the group’s anti-war efforts.

From 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., five DJs will entertain eventgoers in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Among the performers are local DJs Schematik, Kernel Scurry, Photovore09 and Jack the Lad.

Stephen MacDonell, senior in philosophy, will be performing under his stage name DJ Reaktor.

MacDonell says the DJs will cover many sub-genres in electronic music, including happycore, dark techno, trance, breakcore and jungle.

In addition to the music, Time for Peace co-founder Omar Tesdell says other activities will entertain eventgoers. Body painters will be on hand to decorate dancers with fluorescent paint to add a human element to the black-lighted d‚cor.

Tesdell, junior in journalism and mass communication, says the group will sponsor a kissing booth to raise money for the cause.

“For a couple of bucks, you can get a peck on the cheek or something,” says Tesdell, who is also a Daily columnist.

MacDonell says he met Tesdell last summer and began planning to bring Subconscious Collective and Time For Peace together, settling on Feb. 14 for the date.

“Valentine’s Day made sense, it’s about love … a community-building idea,” Tesdell says. “We want Valentine’s to emphasize love and peace and non-violence.”

He says Time For Peace is dedicated to nonviolent means of protest and compares their tactics to those of activist Mahatma Gandhi.

The group’s main activities are peace vigils, which are held on Wednesdays and Sundays, on the corner of Welch Avenue and Lincoln Way.

The vigils usually draw about 40 to 50 participants.

Flyers, stickers and information on local and national peace efforts and non-violent activism will be handed out to patrons during the event, Tesdell says.

Tesdell says the money raised at “Love Thy Neighbor” will provide opportunities for the organization to provide information to the community in the form of flyers, signs and handouts.

The group is looking into a plan to send aid packages to children in war-torn countries.

“We do it to show a visible element of the peace movement,” MacDonell says. “We’re just trying to find some way to at least alleviate suffering for some of them.”