CALENDAR
Jul 28-Aug 7 - Buffalo Infringement FestivalJul 29-31 Wordstock Poets Hall, Erie PA (2 venues)
Aug 1-8 - Week 6 at Chautauqua "The Future of Cities"
Aug 2 - Lake Erie Region Conservancy Fiesta Fundraiser 7pm Mad Mex Millcreek Mall, Erie PA
Aug 3 - Nan Hoffman in Findley Lake 11am Alexander Findley Community Library, Findley Lake NY.
Aug 7 - CommUnity Day 4-9pm Bayview Park, Erie PA Free food and beverages, first come first served while they last. Face painting and music, speakers, candlelight vigil walk to Bicentennial Tower to remember those lost to violence.
Aug 4-6 - Trevor Noah, Lewis Black at Lucy Comedy Fest Jamestown NY. Also on Aug 5 "Comedy Legacies: Brue, Carlin, Pryor"
Aug 5 - Vigil: Justice for immigrants 12:15pm at Federal Building in downtown Erie. Hosted by Benedictines for Peace.
Aug 7 - WNY VegFest Riverside Park, Buffalo NY Free admission.
Aug 13-20 - Week 8 at Chautauqua: "War and Its Warriors: Contemporary Voices Chautauqua NY.
Aug 21 - Schickalay's Presents Wailers and One World Tribe 6th & Peninsula, Erie PA. 5-8pm.
Aug 21 - An Evening with Mark Russell Fundraiser for Robert H Jackson Center. "A Fundraising Dinner and Performance with Comedy Legend Mark Russell!" Chautauqua Suites, Mayville NY. Video of 2015 event
Aug 26 - BabeFest: VOTE DAMMIT: Babeville Buffalo NY "Righteous Babe Records and singer-songwriter-activist Ani DiFranco hope to energize people about the issues at stake this election year, and motivate people to vote... the inaugural 'BabeFest,' a festival of music, comedy and social activism."
Aug 26-27 - Burning River Fest Coast Guard Station Cleveland OH. Proceeds to Burning River Foundation.
Aug 27 - Erie Pridefest March and rally March steps off at 1pm from Zone (18th & Sassafras), winds up at Griswold Park for festival.
Aug 27 - Nan Hoffman in Jamestown 2pm James Prendergast Library, Jamestown NY
Aug 27-28 - Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY.
Sep 4 - Willie Nelson & Family Seneca Allegany, Salamanca NY.
Sep 5 - NWPA ALF Labor Day Parade 10am 11th & State to Perry Square, Erie PA.
Sep 5 - Labour Day Demonstration at Marineland Canada 11am - 2pm. Note: passports are now required for border crossing. Background
Sep 13 - Speaker: Bryan Stevenson Mercyhurst Performing Arts Center 7pm "Bryan Stevenson is founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned... He is the recent author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy, which was named by Time Magazine as one of the 10 Best Books of Nonfiction for 2014 and has been awarded several honors including a 2015 NAACP Image Award." Part of the Charlene Tanner Speaker Series.
Sep 16 - Snowden (2016) release date for Oliver Stone's film about whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Sep 17 - Dixie Chicks in Concert First Niagara Center Buffalo NY /
Sep 18 - Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Tinseltown
Sep 23 - Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA Fredonia Opera House Fredonia NY
Sep 23-25 Mother Earth News Fair Seven Springs PA
Sep 24 - Erie VegFest 2016 10am-6pm Zem Zem Shrine Banquet and Conference Center 2525 W 38 Erie PA.
ALSOAug 5 - Vigil: Justice for immigrants 12:15pm at Federal Building in downtown Erie. Hosted by Benedictines for Peace.
Aug 7 - WNY VegFest Riverside Park, Buffalo NY Free admission.
Aug 13-20 - Week 8 at Chautauqua: "War and Its Warriors: Contemporary Voices Chautauqua NY.
Aug 21 - Schickalay's Presents Wailers and One World Tribe 6th & Peninsula, Erie PA. 5-8pm.
Aug 21 - An Evening with Mark Russell Fundraiser for Robert H Jackson Center. "A Fundraising Dinner and Performance with Comedy Legend Mark Russell!" Chautauqua Suites, Mayville NY. Video of 2015 event
Aug 26 - BabeFest: VOTE DAMMIT: Babeville Buffalo NY "Righteous Babe Records and singer-songwriter-activist Ani DiFranco hope to energize people about the issues at stake this election year, and motivate people to vote... the inaugural 'BabeFest,' a festival of music, comedy and social activism."
Aug 26-27 - Burning River Fest Coast Guard Station Cleveland OH. Proceeds to Burning River Foundation.
Aug 27 - Erie Pridefest March and rally March steps off at 1pm from Zone (18th & Sassafras), winds up at Griswold Park for festival.
Aug 27 - Nan Hoffman in Jamestown 2pm James Prendergast Library, Jamestown NY
Aug 27-28 - Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo NY.
Sep 4 - Willie Nelson & Family Seneca Allegany, Salamanca NY.
Sep 5 - NWPA ALF Labor Day Parade 10am 11th & State to Perry Square, Erie PA.
Sep 5 - Labour Day Demonstration at Marineland Canada 11am - 2pm. Note: passports are now required for border crossing. Background
Sep 13 - Speaker: Bryan Stevenson Mercyhurst Performing Arts Center 7pm "Bryan Stevenson is founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned... He is the recent author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy, which was named by Time Magazine as one of the 10 Best Books of Nonfiction for 2014 and has been awarded several honors including a 2015 NAACP Image Award." Part of the Charlene Tanner Speaker Series.
Sep 16 - Snowden (2016) release date for Oliver Stone's film about whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Sep 17 - Dixie Chicks in Concert First Niagara Center Buffalo NY /
Sep 18 - Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Tinseltown
Sep 23 - Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA Fredonia Opera House Fredonia NY
Sep 23-25 Mother Earth News Fair Seven Springs PA
Sep 24 - Erie VegFest 2016 10am-6pm Zem Zem Shrine Banquet and Conference Center 2525 W 38 Erie PA.
- Civil Rights Investigation Underway in Violent Police Arrest (Erie News Now 7/26/2016) Department of Justice opens civil rights investigation in Erie police arrest (Your Erie 7/26/2016) "United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania David J. Hickton announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice will open a civil rights investigation on alleged brutality used by Erie police in the arrest of Montrice Bolden.'
- GEAE honors local LGBT pioneers Harry Miller and Doris Cipolla were honored at Greater Erie Alliance for Equality's 5th Afternoon for Equality June 26. The Benedictines also wrote a nice piece on Doris's recognition (Doris is an OSB oblate).
- Donate to keep Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Fest FREE
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