Wednesday, February 4, 2015

This & That ~ Feb 4, 2015

Posted online at http://eriebluegreen.blogspot.com This & That is published now and then for the Erie area progressive community. Always good to double-check dates and times.  Event submissions should have “T&T” in subject line, send to moonkat2014@gmail.com . If you don’t want to receive this please reply with “Unsubscribe” in subject line.
CALENDAR
Thru Mar 3 - “Performing Blackness::Performing Whiteness” Allegheny College, Meadville.
Feb 2-24 – Fringe Fest
Feb 5 - Lecture: "The Future of US Immigration" Free Lecture Jefferson Educational Society, Erie, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM This expert panel will discuss how population migration, increased globalization, and current legislation have affected immigration and what this means for the future of the United States.. Baher Ghosheh, Ph.D. and Sarah Siverd, M.A.
Feb 5 “Dear White People” Edinboro Film Series 8:30pm Frank G Pogue Student Center, Multipurpose Room, $5, EUP students free.
Feb 5-Mar 5 Allegheny International Film series
Feb 6 – Vigil: Justice for Immigrants. 5:15pm 2nd & State. “Until the immigration law is passed” Organized by Benedictines for Peace.
Feb 6 - Pennsylvania Progressive Summit 2015 Harrisburg PA. Organized by Keystone Progress
  • Rideshare: “Easy-going progressive with a ticket to the PA Progressive Summit seeks riding and/or rooming companion to H'burg for said Summit Feb. 6-7. Departing from West Millcreek at approx 5:30PM on Friday evening, returning Sunday tbd. No room reservation. Contact: Veronica 814-806-0979.”
Feb 7 - Multicultural Asia Day  10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Experience Children's Museum, 420 French St.. Free with museum admission of $6. Info: 453-3743
Feb 7 & 11 – “Citizenfour”  Movies@ The Reg, Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown NY. “…unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA). Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013.  He reached out to her because he knew she had long been a target of government surveillance, stopped at airports numerous times, and had refused to be intimidated. When Snowden revealed he was a high-level analyst driven to expose the massive surveillance of Americans by the NSA, Poitras persuaded him to let her film. R. 114 minutes.
Feb 9 Lecture: What Women Face Every Day 7:00pmMercy Heritage Room
Feb 9 - Annie Dandavati: “Brothers, Sisters and Soldiers: Political Participation and Transitional Society in Egypt” Allegheny Copllege Meadville.7:00 pm: Tillotson Room at the Tippie Alumni CenterAnnie Dandavati’s talk, a Year of Voting Rights and Democratic Participation event, will focus on Egypt and the role of the Muslim Brotherhood, gender and the military.
Feb 11 – Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, to speak SUNY Fredonia, King Concert Hall, free and open to public.
Feb 13 -– “Rebels with a Cause”: Film director shares insights into environmental movement Mercyhurst, Taylor Little Theatre.
Feb 18 - 'Selecting Vegetables for Home Gardens & Soil Testing': 7 p.m.; L.E.A.F. Education Center, 1501 W. Sixth St. Ruth Benner, Horticulture Team, Penn State Extension, and Roberta McCall, Penn State Master Gardeners, will present a workshop. Cost: $10; $5 members.
Feb 19 Screening of “Cesar’s Last Fast” with Director Richard Ray Perez 5:30 pm - 8:15 pm Allegheny College, Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. Director Richard Ray Perez will give a talk following the screening of Cesar’s Last Fast, a multi-platform feature documentary film about the private sacrifice and spiritual conviction behind Cesar Chavez’s struggle for the humane treatment of America’s farm workers, and the impact Chavez’s legacy has on today’s generation of organizers fighting for farm worker rights. An official selection of the 2014 Sundance Festival, Cesar’s Last Fast is built around powerful, never-before-seen footage of Chavez’s 1988 “Fast for Life.”
Feb 26 - Mar 1 -Playshop Theatre: “Clybourne Park”  Allegheny Gladys Mullenix Black TheatreInspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin the Sun, Clybourne Park takes place in the same house in Chicago on two afternoons decades apart.
 Feb 27-28 -Seminar "Justice for All: How Does God's Justice Embrace ALL of God's People?" Organized by Western PA Reconciling Ministries  Sarah Roncolato [mailto:sroncola@allegheny.edu]

Feb 28 & Mar 24 “Selma” Movies@ The Reg, Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown NY. 
Mar 1 - Sister Joan Chittister will be Oprah Winfrey's guest on her Super Soul Sunday TV show The hour-long interview will be available on the OWN channel and live online and online after March 1. Info about online viewing is available here.
Mar 2 – “Energy Democracy: What Can We Learn from Germany?” presentation from: Aaron Bartley Executive Director of PUSH Buffalo Energy Democracy! Aaron recently traveled to Germany and witnessed entire communities that produce, maintain, distribute, and sell their own renewable energy. Let's hear what he learned and how PUSH Buffalo sees it applying to WNY! 6:00-7:30 PM Unitarian Universalist Church 695 Elmwood at Ferry (Garden Entrance), Buffalo For a printable flier, click here.
Mar 4 -5 - Claudia Lennhoff  Tillotson Room at the Tippie Alumni Center, Allegheny College. A leader in grassroots community organizing efforts, Claudia Lennhoff is executive director of Champaign County (Illinois) Health Care Consumers, which has worked to promote health care access and justice for almost 40 years. In 2002 she was selected to receive the nation’s most prestigious health leadership award, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Community Health Leadership Program award, which is given to outstanding community health leaders who overcome daunting odds to expand access to health care and social services to underservedM
May 8-10 - Spirit Quest Film Fest Edinboro PA. Call for entries now open.
Mar 6-7 - Journalism Conference: “Honoring Ida: Celebrating the Work and Legacies of Ida Tarbell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett” Vukovich Center for Communication Arts The Journalism in the Public Interest Program at Allegheny College will host its third conference. This year’s focus will be on women journalists and the work of two outstanding women journalists — Ida Tarbell, Allegheny College Class of 1880, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett — as it relates to the theme of voting rights. Academic partners for the conference include Ohio University and Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio). More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Mar 22 – World Water Day
Mar 22 -  3rd Annual Call for Peace Benefit for MATV. Oasis Pub, live performances.
Mar 28 MATV Job Fair Mothers Against Teen Violence is once again sponsoring a Youth Summer Job Fair to take place Saturday, March 28 at the Booker T. Washington Center from 12-3PM. The orientation for job seekers, which was very well attended last year, will run from noon til 1PM and the Fair will pick up from 1-3PM
Mar 30 -Keynote Presentation: Robert P. Moses Ford Chapel Alleghney College Dr. Robert P. Moses is a legendary civil rights activist and a MacArthur Award-winning educator. He is the president and founder of The Algebra Project Inc., a national nonprofit dedicated to improving the mathematics achievement of historically underrepresented students and communities.
Apr 9 – Maria Shriver joins Joan Chittister ‘In Conversation’ Mercyhurst University, Erie. Two women who share a passion for issues of peace and justice – especially as they affect women – will share the stage when Mercyhurst University hosts the second annual Joan D. Chittister Lecture on April 9.
May 18 - Medea Benjamin in Erie Benedictines for Peace will sponsor Medea Benjamin as their Spring Speaker. Medea is co-founder of CodePink, a political activist group, and Global Exchange, a human rights organization. She is also the author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control and seven other books. Her work for justice in Israel and Palestine includes taking numerous delegations to Gaza and organizing the Gaza Freedom March. For more information, email Sister Marlene Bertke, OSB or visit Benedictines for Peace. Monday, May 18, 7:00 p.m. Mount St. Benedict Monastery, Erie A free-will offering will be appreciated More on Medea Benjamin
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