Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Calendar & News ~ March 2020

NOTICE:
MANY EVENTS BEING POSTPONED, CANCELED, 
OR STREAMED ONLINE IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 

CALENDAR 
Visit event sites for details and most up-to-date info
thru Mar 1 - "The Crucible"  Diebold Center for the Performing Arts, Edinboro University, Edinboro PA. Edinboro University Theatre presents Arthur Miller's allegory about McCarthyism.
Feb 28 - "Our Woods and Waters" Film Series Venango VFW, 20628 Gospel Hill Rd., Venango PA Hosts: Foundation for Sustainable Forestry, French Creek Conservatory.
Feb 28 - Raise the Roof Benefit PACA 1505 State, Erie PA. 5:30-7:30pm
Feb 28 - Mar 7 - "Silent Sky" SUNY Fredonia Bartlett Theatre, Rockefeller Arts Center, Fredonia, NY.  
Feb 28 & 29 - "Forbidden by Definition" East Middle School 1001 Atkins Erie PA   "Our 2nd Annual Black History Month Production at East Middle School including our students and dance companies from the community!" 6pm $13
Feb 28 & 29 - PLAY: "The Fall of the African-American Youth: From Thrones to Thugs"  Hosted by Eagle's Nest Leadership Corporation HO Hirt Auditorium, Blasco Memorial Library 16 E Front, Erie. 6pm Friday, 2pm Saturday. Tickets: $10/pp ($5 for 13 years old and under)
Feb 28 - Apr 3 - Lenten Vigils for Immigration Justice Lenten Fridays 12:15-12:45 pm at Perry Square, Erie. PA.
Mar 2 - BFP Silent Peace Walk: Mercy Center for Women 1039 E. 27th St. Erie, PA 7pm "During Women’s History Month, our walk will begin and end at a place dedicated to women and children moving from homelessness to stable housing."
Update    Mar 7 - Lunafest!  Jamestown Community College, Jamestown NY "LUNAFEST® is not just a traveling film festival, it’s a force for change. Join us in supporting women filmmakers and women's causes." $20/gen/$5 student
Mar 11 - Wet Your Whistle for Watersheds 5-8pm Brazil Craft Beer & Wine Lounge 10 E 4th St, Jamestown, NY Benefits Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy "Good food, good drink, good fun!  Meet CWC's new staff members"
Mar 12 - Queer 101  5:30-7pm Blasco Memorial Library, Erie PA. Free CEUs and Act 48 credits. Free, no registration required, "this training is appropriate for all ages and open to the public."
Mar 12 - Teaching Tolerance: Overcoming Hate  6pm Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie, 7180 Perry Hwy, Erie. Presented by One Table of Erie PA
Mar 18 - PA Board of Education Public Hearing on Community College  10am H O Hirt Auditorium, Blasco Memorial Library 160 E Front St, Erie, PA
Mar 18 - Vigil for Erie's Community College  7pm "Join Erie Benedictines for Peace, the Erie Branch of the NAACP, Erie County United, Erie Stands Up, Inter-Church Ministries and the African American Concerned Clergy for a candlelight vigil in support of our own Community College.  Erie High School 3325 Cherry St., Erie, PA  site of the meeting of the Board of Education on Thursday, March 19 The entire community is welcome to come show support for our own Community College."
Mar 19 - Uplifting the Voices of the SIlenced: Samantha Fuentes 7pm Yehl Ballroom, Gannon University, Erie PA. Survivor of the Margory Stoneman Douglas shooting, Fuentes is an advocate for gun violence prevention.
Mar 20-22 - Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted  Meadville Council on the Arts 910 Market St Meadville PA
Mar 21 - Tell Your Health Care Story 1001 State, Suite 1224, Erie PA 9am to 5pm Hosted by HealthCare4ALLPA
Mar 26-29 Playshop Theatre: "Sweat"  By Lynn Nottage  Allegheny College, Gladys Mullenix Theatre, Meadville PA.   Pulitzer-winning drama. "Sweat...is about a close-knit group of steel workers who find themselves forced out of the steel factory where many of them have worked for over twenty-five years. Sweat examines how their economic hardships dangerously rupture their friendships along racial lines, destroying their community in the process."  ~ Playwright's commentary 
Mar 27 - Apr 4 - "Silent Sky" Dramashop 1001 State Street, Suite 210, Erie, PA. Staged reading.
Mar 28 & 31 "Just Mercy" Fredonia Opera House, Fredonia NY
Apr 1 - PSU Speaker Series: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Iraqi-American physician, scientist & activist who exposed the Flint water crisis 7:30 p.m. Penn State Behrend, McGarvey Commons, Erie PA
Apr 1 - UB Speaker Series : Jeff Corwin  University of Buffalo Center for the Arts, UB's North (Amherst) Campus. Host of “Ocean Mysteries,” Renowned conservationist and environmental journalist.
Apr 2 - Single Voice Reading: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate, who writes of the immigrant experience.  Allegheny College, Tippie Alumni Center/Cochran Hall,  Meadville, PA
Update    Apr 18 - 25 Earth Day Week 2020 Schedule of Events
Jun 15 - 20 - Walking in Black History Trip 2020 "Departing from Erie to civic and historical sights in Tuskegee, Montgomery, Selma and Birmingham, Alabama and additional stops on the return trip. Current intent is to join up with the Poor People's Campaign March on Washington on Saturday, June 20th."
Jul 31 - Rage Against the Machine & Run the Jewels PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
League of Women Voters Erie County Centennial Calendar Events for March (Discussions, performances, art, books and other events. Calendar also carries throughout this centennial of woman suffrage.
SUSPENDED    Jefferson Educational Society Will stream live via their Facebook page
Erie County Historical Society "The Suffragette Exhibit is in the Ballroom on the Third Floor of the Watson-Curtze Mansion.  It will remain open until August 2020."
Making Women's History in Southwestern New York State "This site celebrates the lives of influential women from Southwestern New York State, as well as regional sites and events that have contributed to U.S. women’s history."
League of Women Voters of Warren County LWV Centennial Celebration

 NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lora, Anne, Bob. Photo: storycorps.org

 LOOKING BACK 
StoryCorps Archive: Erie Peace Initiative  Vietnam vet Robert “Bob” Johnson, community activist and Quaker Lora Caldwell, and Erie Benedictine  sister Anne McCarthy talk about their involvement with Erie Peace Initiative, and share what brought them to peace activism. Recorded July 31, 2009.  40:09 minutes  
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