Aug 5 - One World Tribe at Erie Blues & Jazz Festival
Aug 5 - "Rolling Hills Radio featuring Joe Crookston and Todd Burge" Chautauqua Amphitheatre, Chautauqua NY
Aug 9 - Indigenous Peoples Day a United Nations Holiday The Buffalo History Museum, One Museum Court, Buffalo, NY
Aug 9 - Rise Up: Mourning in Amerika Tour The Rapids Theatre, Niagara Falls NY. Rise Up, AFI + Anti Flag
Aug 10 - “BlacKkKlansman” (2018) National release date of Spike Lee film based on true story NPR interview with Ron Stallworth
Aug 12 - Blues for Shoes Benefit Sandbar Drafthouse, 2835 W. 8th, Erie. Annual show with proceeds for school supplies, also monetary and school supply donations accepted at door.
Aug 12, 13, 15 - "Grave of the Fireflies" (1988) Tinseltown Erie. " Yes, it’s a cartoon, and the kids have eyes like saucers, but it belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made." ~from Roger Ebert review
Aug 13 - Bryan Stevenson Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, incarcerated, and condemned.
Aug 17 - Jesse Jackson w/ Joan Brown Campbell at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY "Jackson will appear in conversation with the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, former director of religion at Chautauqua Institution. Moderated by Bishop Gene Robinson.
Aug 18 & 21 - "Won't You Be My Neighbor" (2018) 1891 Fredonia Opera House, Fredonia NY.
Aug 19-24 - Chautauqua Food & Film Festival Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY List of films
Aug 20 - "The Filmmaker As Collaborator: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Friends" Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY
Aug 23 - Trae Crowder Hilarities 4th Street Theater, Cleveland OH
Aug 23 - New Almanac Singers Burning Books 420 Connecticut St., Buffalo NY
Aug 25 - Nan Hoffman in concert James Prendergast Library, 509 Cherry, 'Jamestown NY
Aug 26 - Lily Dale Women’s Day Event Lily Dale NY " Woman's Day Event- Four Year Celebration that honors the strong women of the suffrage movement & the women of Lily Dale’s contribution to it. We seek to educate, empower & uplift all generations in the spirit of equality. "
Aug 29 - "Won't You Be My Neighbor" (2018) Reg Lenna Venter for the Arts, Jamestown NY
Aug 29 - Sep 2 - Rise Above Tuskegee CAF Redtail Squadron North Coast Air, 1601 Asbury Rd., Erie PA Hosted by Urban Erie Community Development Corp. "Traveling Exhibit, a 53’ educational display and theater that tours the country with the P-51 Mustang aircraft." Info
Aug 29 - "South Pacific" (1958) Tinseltown Erie. TMC's 60th anniversary showing of the classic musical adapted from James Michener's Tales of the Pacific.
Aug 30 - BFP Silent Walk 7:00 p.m. "preceded by a cookout at 6 p.m. at 345 East 9th Street in the playground area. We will celebrate the first anniversary of our monthly Silent Peace Walks by returning to the 'Benedictine Block.'"
Sep 1 - 2018 Hispanic Heritage Festival Perry Square, Erie PA
Sep 3 - NWPA ALF Labor Day Parade 10am to noon, Erie PA Hosted by NWPA Area Labor Federation.
Sep 8 - French Creek Watershed Cleanup Cochranton PA. Hosted by French Creek Valley Conservancy.
Sep 13 - Attica - Legal Persepectives and Legacy Robert H Jackson Center Jamestown NY "annual fall Community Education Seminar focusing on the Attica Prison riots."
Sep 16 - Plug-In EV "Show & Tell Hilton Garden Inn, 2525 Downs Dr, Erie PA Hosted by Our Water Our Rights Free. Details soon. Info
Sep 28-Oct 14 “The Laramie Project” Dramashop, Renaissance Center, 1001 State Erie PA
Oct 3 - Joan Baez Fare Thee Well Tour 2018 Keybank State Theatre Cleveland
Dec 5 - "RBG" and "Rust Belt Americans"/ Film Grain: Dinner & a Movie Bourbon Barrel, Erie PA Presented by Erie Co Bar Association Women's Div. and Keystone Progress Erie
NEWS & INFO
- Erie County Democratic Black Caucus held its first meeting July 5. They say it "exists to address and improve the political and public policy concerns of Erie’s African American & minority communities as an united body. "
- Erie County Young Democrats says "we will be hosting biweekly events throughout Erie County until we have a member base that screams, 'We are here!'"
- "Sustainable Food Systems Program expands to Beaver and Behrend locations" Penn State News
- "Our view: Erie County United Highlights Equity" "Erie County United pushes for social justice" (both are from Erie Times-News)
- Josh Fox "The Truth Has Changed Tour" Josh Fox The Oscar-nominated and Emmy-Winning filmmaker behind GASLAND, the film that started the anti-fracking movement worldwide, is looking for hosts for his new tour.
- "Fighting Back Against a Blow to Workers' Rights: Countering the Janus v. AFSCME Decision" Rep. Pat Harkins (Erie Reader)
- “After incident, CTC screens ‘Mother’s Milk’ in step toward healing” (Chautauquan Daily 7/5/18) Incident experienced at Chautauqua gate by African-American actor and playwright Larry Powell, who was at CHQ to perform “An Octoroon,” which explores racism in the US
- Coming Home: Reentry After Incarceration CEPA Gallery, Buffalo NY. July 28-August 31, 2018. Photographer Errol Daniels and writer Katherine Russell " series of still photographs and essays documenting formerly incarcerated people as they return to society. This project humanizes criminal justice statistics and portrays the challenges of post-incarceration life through word and photograph."
- "Erie's 26th Blues & Jazz Fest makes noteworthy changes"
DEVOS PROTESTS
Coverage and commentary. Worthy of a discussion over how to keep control over the message of an event.
- Keystone Progress Erie photo album
- Erie Education Association album comments section includes some discussion in the differences between the two events.
- Erie News Now video of main event
- Erie Times-News editorial about the two protests
- GoErie: "Protestors come out for DeVos stop in Erie"
- DeVos Protest Brenton Davis video Mr. Davis recorded and posted this to cast the protest in a negative light. It's being posted here because this it is raw video of the smaller group's confrontation with DeVos at the smaller protest, and because Davis has made statements about what occurred that conflict with his own video.
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