Best wishes for the New Year!
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CALENDAR
Jan 2 - Vigil: Justice for Immigrants 5:15pm 2nd and State
Jan 3 - 5th Annual Steve Arrington Memorial Booker T Washington Center gym, 18th & Holland, Erie PA
Jan 9 – Lewis Black: “The Rant is Due: Part Deux” Warner Theatre, Erie PA.
Jan 10 – Rosewater 1891 Fredonia Opera House, Fredonia NY. “That the movie is as tense and chilling as it is owes much to first-time director Jon Stewart’s keen eye for the way humor surfaces even in the dark places.” - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.
Jan 11 - Close Guantanamo National event in DC, check site for others around the country and the world. Also note May 25 event.
Jan 15-Feb 8 -Confronting Injustice: A Woman’s Voice Mercyhurst, Erie PA. This exhibit features new works by local and regional female artists, inspired by Mercyhurst University’s academic theme for 2014-15, Confronting Injustice. Cummings Art Gallery is Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.lobby, free and open to the public, M-F 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat-Sun 2 to 5 p.m. Info 814-824-2092 or email hdana@mercyhurst.edu.
Jan 16 - ECO: "Celebrating Dr Martin Luther King Jr" Matthew Kraemer Conductor Peter Boyer Ellis Island Cathedral Prep Auditorium 250 West 10th Street, Erie, PA
Jan 19 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday.
Jan 19 -Martin Luther King Jr. Day Keynote Address by The Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak Allegheny College, Meadville PA. 11am.
Jan 19-25 - PSU Behrend "Equality Soul of Our Nation" 2015 Dr. Martin Luther King Annual Commemoration All events free and open to public.
Jan 19-Mar 5 - "Performing Blackness:: Performing Whiteness" Allegheny College, Meadville PA This exhibition examines constructions of racial identity to complicate popular rhetoric around race. The artworks interrogate oversimplifying binaries and destabilize the often unexamined position of “whiteness.”
Jan 20 - Vigil Against Hate Mary Seat of Wisdom Chapel 512 Peach, Erie 7:30pm.
Jan 20 - Vigil Against Hate Mary Seat of Wisdom Chapel 512 Peach, Erie 7:30pm.
Jan 31 - Alex Bevan Coffeehouse Concert 7:30pm Ashtabula Arts Center, 2928 W. 13th St. Ashtabula OH. $15 Call (440) 964-3396 to order tickets. Website
Feb 2-24 – Fringe Fest
Feb 5 & 7 Garth Brooks in Pittsburgh with Trisha Yearwood, 3 shows
Feb 26-Mar 1 - Playshop Theatre: "Clybourne Park" Allegheny College, Meadville PA. Mar 6 & 7 - Garth Brooks in Buffalo with Trisha Yearwood, four shows, First Niagara Center.
Mar 7-15 Mountain Justice Spring Break 2015 SW Virginia
May 8-10 - Spirit Quest Film Fest Edinboro PA. Call for entries now open.
LOCAL NEWS
- Rev Steve UUCE in Erie Steve's farewell letter. Jan 18 will be his final Sunday at UUCE.Rev. Steve’s final Sunday Service10:30 a.m.followed by his retirement party More here.
- Erie Movie House strives to become community hot spot. (note they have approached Erie Peace Initiative, who will be meeting with them next week).
- Band uses music to plead for end to violence in Erie
- PA lawmakers suggest ways to modernize voter registration. (Pennsylvania Independent) From Ryan Bizzarro (D-Erie) and Kevin Shreiber (D-York)
- Prison State: Local Organizations Aim to Help Erie’s Incarcerated (Erie Reader)
- Two more with Erie ties to join Wolf transition team
- Marine Sanctuary -- Yes or No (Erie Reader)
- Wait until next year Lake Erie's toxic algae bloom (Toledo Blade)
BLACK LIVES MATTER
- Edinboro students hold protest over “Broken System”
- National Black Lives Matter Movement extends to Erie
- Behrend students hold "Die-in"
- Black Lives Matter Erie Facebook group
- Browns refuse to apologize to Cleveland cops for Andrew Hawkins shirt
- Erie Police Chief wants body cameras for officers (Erie Times-News)
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