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2012 Season for Nonviolence EventsNEW YORK---BY CITY
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New York City
• Sunday, January 29, 2012
Connecting the Human Family & Integrating the Sacred
It is the 15th Annual Gandhi - King Season for Nonviolence. A 64-Day Celebration of the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. We begin January 29, 2012 to April 4, 2012. Our theme is Connecting the Human Family & Integrating the Sacred. We have three 21-day modules planned encompassing every generation of the human family. 21 days for youth, 21 days for adults, and 21 days for elder.
Time & Location:
2:00pm
Sanctuary NYC
Sunday Services at West Park Presbyterian Church,
165 West 86th Street
Contact: info@sanctuarynyc.org
www.sanctuarynyc.org
• Wednesday, February 15, 2012
"Global Peace through Social Media: There's An App for That!"
You're invited to attend the 15th Annual SNV launch at the United Nations on Wednesday, February 15th. This year's launch is planned and presented, in large part, by the students of NYC high schools practicing a Season for Nonviolence 2012. Keynote Speaker is Nipun Mehta, a key member of AGNT's
Generation Now forum.
Location: United Nations, Time: 1:15 - 2:30 pm
Contact: suzanne@templeofunderstanding.org, 212-573-9224
• Sunday, April 1, 2012
For the Next 7 Generations: a film screening and director Q & A
Sanctuary NYC is presenting a screening of For the Next 7 Generations. A powerful documentary which focuses on the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, wise women drawn from all corners of the globe as they come together to form an alliance and share their visions of healing and change for the world. Following the screening there will be a Q & A session with the director Carol Hart. Fundraiser for the Church and Grandmothers' Council Suggested Donation $15
Location: West Park Presbyterian Church,
165 W. 86th St., New York, NY 10024
Time: 4:30 pm Contact: Tia Oliver tia@sanctuarynyc.org, sanctuarynyc.org
Rochester
• Saturday, January 28, 2012
Introduction to Nonviolence
These day long workshops are designed to introduce the principles and practices of nonviolence through experiential activities and group based learning. During the training Gandhi Institute staff and board will lead exercises and present on topics that relate to real issues and real people. As a trainee you will gain the skills necessary to transform personal and social conflicts; develop techniques and strategies in nonviolent social resistance; be exposed to different forms of meditation; participate in a live talking circle; and become familiar with the life and teachings of M.K. Gandhi. There is no cost to attend these workshops. Donations will be gratefully accepted. We invite learners of all ages and backgrounds to participate!
Location & Time:
University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel
Saturday, January 28, 2012
10:00 -4:00 p.m.
Contact:
George Payne @ 585-276-4962
www.gandhiinstitute.org
• Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Talking Circle on Community
These events provide an opportunity to explore our values together in a respectful environment.
Additional events:
Wednesday, February 15 - Talking Circle on Community
Friday, March 2- Talking Circle on Cooperation
Saturday, March 10 - Talking Circle on Appreciation
Sunday, March 18- Talking Circle on Family
Monday, March 26- Talking Circle on Friendship
Location & Time: 111 Hillside Ave., Rochester, NY from 7-9 pm.
Contact: Co-sponsored by Partners in Restorative Initiatives and Restorative Rochester
www.pirirochester.org
• Sunday, February 19, 2012
Talk by Rev. James Lawson
James Lawson was born in Pennsylvania in 1928. His father and grandfather were Methodist ministers, and Lawson received his local preacher's license in 1947, the year he graduated from high school. At his Methodist college in Ohio, he joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), America's oldest pacifist organization. Through FOR, he was first exposed to the nonviolent teachings of Gandhi and fellow black minister Howard Thurman.
In 1951, Lawson was sentenced to three years in prison for refusing the Korean War draft. He was paroled after thirteen months, obtained his B.A. in 1952, and spent the next three years as a campus minister and teacher at Hislop College in Nagpur, India. While in India, Lawson eagerly read of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the emerging nonviolent resistance movement back in the United States.
When he returned to the United States in 1956, he enrolled in Oberlin School of Theology in Ohio. By 1957, Lawson decided he could no longer sit on the sidelines. He enrolled at Vanderbilt Divinity School and opened an FOR field office in Nashville, where he began holding seminars to train volunteers in Gandhian tactics of nonviolent direct action. Drawing on the example of Christ's suffering, he taught growing numbers of black and white students how to organize sit-ins and any other form of action that would force America to confront the immorality of segregation.
Time & Location:
7:00 p.m.
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
Rochester, NY
Contact: www.gandhinstitute.org
• Monday, February 20, 2012
The Foundation Movement
Foundation Movement members; Eroc and Optimus are a diverse group of artists with origins from Puerto Rico and Liberia who met in Boston and united to form the group. This cultural fusion, as well as their experiences growing up in Boston, has influenced The Foundation Movement’s music. Not another rap group with watered down lyrics, and messages of misogyny and materialism. They’re committed to addressing issues of injustice and oppression, while also entertaining crowds with hot beats and relevant lyrics.
Foundation Movement has performed at local clubs, open mics, college campuses, high schools, and rallies and protests, for crowds of 30 to 30,000. In the short time the group has been together, Foundation Movement has shared the same stage with KRS-One, Rakim, The Last Poets, X-Clan, Dead Prez, The Coup, C.L. Smooth, Pharoahe Monch, Greg Nice, Michael Franti/Spearhead, Saul Williams, Edo.g, Medusa, YZ, Wise Intelligent/Poor Righteous Teachers, Soulfege, Lee Wilson, Supernatural, Billy Bragg, Akrobatik, Mr. LIF and Amiri Baraka.
Location: Rochester Friends Meeting on 84 Scio St, Rochester, NY
Contact: www.gandhiinstitute.org
• Wednesday, March 7 - Monday, April 2, 2012
Americans Who Tell the Truth art exhibit
The art exhibit runs from March 7- April 2. Robert Shetterly will give a talk at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County on February 11, 2012.
Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took a couple of courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life — from the written word to the image. Also, during this time, he was very active in Civil Rights and in the Anti-Vietnam War movement.
After college and moving to Maine in 1970, he taught himself drawing, printmaking, and painting. While trying to become proficient in printmaking & painting, he illustrated widely. For twelve years he did the editorial page drawings for the Maine Times newspaper, illustrated National Audubon’s children’s newspaper Audubon Adventures, and approximately 30 books.
Now, his paintings & prints are in collections all over the U.S. and Europe. A collection of his drawings & etchings, Speaking Fire at Stones, was published in 1993. He is well known for his series of 70 painted etchings based on William Blake’s Proverbs of Hell, and for another series of 50 painted etchings reflecting on the metaphor of the Annunciation. His painting tends toward the narrative and the surreal, and he has not been, until this time, a portrait painter.
Location: Monroe County Link Gallery
Contact: www.gandhinstitute.org
• Sunday, March 11, 2012
Americans Who Tell the Truth art exhibit
The art exhibit runs from March 7- April 2. Robert Shetterly will give a talk at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County on March 11, 2012.
Contact: www.gandhinstitute.org
• Friday, March, 23, 2012
Paul Chappell Talk and Training
The son of a Korean mother and African-American father who served in Korea and Vietnam, Paul Chappell is a 2002 West Point graduate and Iraq veteran who left the army as a captain. Obsessed with the problem of war since childhood, his groundbreaking work offers clear and compelling insights based on military training, experience and extensive research into human nature and the myths that perpetuate war. His persuasive dialogue on ending war avoids blaming any particular political group and includes a new form of peace leadership that has appealed to liberals, conservatives, veterans and civilians.
“Anyone who thinks ending war is naïve hasn’t put enough thought into it. What’s naïve is to think that war can continue and humanity will survive.”
– Paul Chappell, The Sun magazine, April 2011
Location & Time:
University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel
7:00-9:00 P.M.
Contact:
www.gandhiinstitute.org
• Saturday, March 24, 2012
Talk: Chuck Fager: Study War Some More, If you want to work for peace
Chuck Fager has led a life of activism for peace. He is currently the director of Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC, just outside the gates of Fort Bragg. He counsels and helps people who are facing their realization that they are conscientious objectors to participating in war, whether in- or outside the military. His title is provocative.
Time: 7:00pm Location: Rochester Friends (Quaker) Meetinghouse, 84 Scio Street (entrance around thge corner on Charlotte Street)
Contact: kmaher2@rochester.rr.com
Syracuse
• Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Further Invention of Nonviolence
Kathy Kelly, 3-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, is sharing her decades of global nonviolence work. She is flying in from Afghanistan, and will appear in court for sentencing the next day as one of the final Hancock 38 protesters.
Location: Whitney 101 Onondaga Community College, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY
Time: 12:30 to 1:45 pm Contact: Nancy Hazzard/Student Development (315) 498-2119, www.sunyocc.edu
• Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Create a Peace Crane: 1000 Peace Crane Project
The OCC community will have the opportunity to learn about the peace crane history, and create their own origami peace cranes. Donated cranes will be strung on transparent fishline and hung from student center windows.
Location: Gordon Student Center lobby/hallway, Onondaga Community College, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY
Time: 11 am to 1 pm Contact: Nancy Hazzard/Student Development (315) 498-2119, www.sunyocc.edu
• Friday, March 2, 2012
Find Inner Peace through Meditation
Every Friday until early May, a half-hour meditation is facilitated by Interfaith Chaplain Rev. Roberta Yackel.
Location: Spirituality Resource Center, Coulter Library Rm. 140F, Onondaga Community College, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY
Time: 11:30 am to 12 noon Contact: Nancy Hazzard/Student Development (315) 498-2119, www.sunyocc.edu
• Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
This award-winning Hallmark film documenting the story of a Catholic woman in Nazi-occupied Poland who saved hundreds of Jewish children will be shown. A faculty panel will immediately follow.
Location: Whitney 101 Onondaga Community College, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY
Time: 3:30 to 5:30 pm Contact: Nancy Hazzard/Student Development (315) 498-2119, www.sunyocc.edu
• Monday, March 26, 2012
Walk the Labyrinth Experience
The Reform Church of Syracuse will bring their huge cloth labyrinth and chanting CDs to the OCC Great Room for a personal, powerful experience for everyone interested in walking the labyrinth.
Location: Gordon Great Room, Onondaga Community College, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY
Time: 3 to 8 pm Contact: Nancy Hazzard/Student Development (315) 498-2119, www.sunyocc.edu
• Monday, April 2, 2012
Walking Meditation w/HeartWings
Participants will be led in a mindful walking meditation, after a brief explanation. Processing the experience will occur after the meditation. Facilitated by Cybie Mauro/HeartWings.
Limited to 25 persons.
Location: Gordon Center Bistro, Onondaga Community College, 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY
Time: 11:15 am to 12:20 pm Contact: Nancy Hazzard/Student Development (315) 498-2119, www.sunyocc.edu