\nPeaceWorks Rochester Community Calendar

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

All day event

Description:

Monday, February 4th- New York Childcare Advocacy Day- This event is sponsored by the Empire State Campaign for Childcare and Winning Beginning New York. This is an all day event. food and transportation will be provided. If you are interested in attending or want more

details
please contact Brigit Hurley bhurley@thechildrensagenda.org

Time:

12:00pm

Location:

Federal Building (100 State St.)

Description:

The Rochester Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship invites you to join us on one Monday of each month for a silent vigil (meditation) for peace.

The next vigil will be Monday, February 4, from 12 Noon to 1 pm, at the Federal Building, 100 State Street. Please bring your own blanket, cushion and/or chair (and groundcloth or piece of plastic if it is wet). If you can't come for the full hour, please join us for as long as you can.

This is an opportunity for us to publicly express a non-violent, compassionate, thoughtful alternative to aggression and conflict.

We hope to see you there.

For the Rochester BPF,

Jay Thompson
jayf_thompson@hotmail.com

Time:

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Flying Squirrel Community Space 285 Clarissa St. Rochester, NY

Description:

Consent 201: Getting Beyond the Basics

Monday, February 4, 2019
6pm - 8pm
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St. Rochester, NY
Suggested donation: $5 (no one turned away) Join us!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/339219690014633/

Often the term consent is believed merely to encompass permission related to sexual activity. Though this aspect of the conversation is important and necessary, it is only one piece of the story. Consent is a highly personal ideology, influenced by lived experience and aspects of identity. Facilitators will build upon attendees’ lived experiences through discussion and interactive activities. We aim for attendees to leave with a greater understanding of consent as it relates to sexual activity as well as everyday interactions. The workshop will be presented by the Rochester’s Sexual and Reproductive Justice Task Force.

The Flying Squirrel Community Space is offering intentional programming for 2019. The months of January and February are dedicated to issues of consent and patriarchy. We are also offering one practical activist skillshare or workshop per month.

Time:

6:00pm

Location:

Webster Town Board Meeting Room 1002 - Webster NY

Description:

Reimage RTS is in its Stage 2 of the planning process - Community Mobility Zones. This Stage focuses on RTS Access which serves people with disabilities & elderly people with door to door service.

Stage 1 explored changes to the RTS fixed-route transit system to better meet the changing needs of the region. This study focused on transit service within Monroe County, including Downtown Rochester & the surrounding suburbs.

Stage 1 focused on increasing services in Downtown Rochester & reducing services in the suburbs. This will reduce services for people using RTS & RTS Access who live outside of the proposed changes area.

Please join us at any of these Community Mobility Zone Info Sessions either for moral support or to express your concerns about reduced services.

Webster - Monday Feb 4 - presentation starts at 6pm. Webster Town Board Meeting Room 1002 - Webster NY

Sweden/Brockport - Wednesday Feb 6 - presentation starts at 6pm. Large Group Instruction Room - Oliver Middle School - 40 Allen St - Brockport NY

Irondequoit - Thursday Feb 7 - presentation starts at 6pm. Broderick Room - Irondequoit Town Hall - 1280 Titus Ave - Irondequoit NY

Henrietta - Tuesday Feb 12 - presentation starts at 6pm. Henrietta Town Hall - 475 Calkins Rd - Henrietta NY

Pittsford/Eastview - Wednesday Feb 13 - presentation starts at 6pm. Pittsford Town Board Room - 11 S. Main St - Pittsford NY

All Areas Community Mobility Zone Info Session & Customer Open House - Thursday Feb 14 - Noon to pm and 4 to 6pm. RTS Transit Center 71 N. Clinton St - Rochester NY

For more information visit reimagine.myrts.com

If you have any questions, comments or can't make any of these sessions but would like to comment please e-mail me.

Thanks

Deb Muratore

Time:

7:00pm

Location:

The Commons at The Harley School 1981 Clover St, Rochester, NY 14618

Description:

Is there hope for Rochester’s business climate?

Who will lead the way?

Harvard Business School Club of Rochester presents

Andrew Brady: Conscious Capitalism ROC

Monday, February 4, 2019, 7pm
The Commons at The Harley School
1981 Clover St, Rochester, NY 14618

Hear one of Rochester’s best and brightest young business leaders share his vision for a Rochester renaissance through Conscious Capitalism: encouraging local businesses to focus on growth that considers all constituencies –
shareholders, employees, customers, vendors, business partners,
local communities, and the environment.

Conscious Capitalism is a fast growing global movement around a business philosophy emphasizing four key characteristics: a higher purpose, stakeholder orientation, conscious leadership and conscious culture. Proponents of this movement believe that businesses that employ sound fundamental business practices and adopt a Conscious Capitalism mindset are more sustainable, resilient and profitable in the long term.

Andrew Brady is Chief Evolutionary Officer at The XLR8 Team, Inc., and Founder and Co-Chair, Conscious Capitalism ROC. He earned his Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

Beverages and light snacks will be served.
$10 for HBS Club Members and $15 for non-members.

Please RSVP to Lynette Sparks (lynette.k.sparks@gmail.com) by Wednesday, January 30.

Time:

6:30pm

Location:

Greece Baptist Church 1230 Long Pond Road Rochester, NY 14626

Description:

Movie: Symbiotic Earth

How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution

Symbiotic Earth explores the life and ideas of scientific rebel Lynn Margulis who challenged entrenched theories of male-dominated science. As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed when she first proposed that symbiosis – when organisms live and work together — was a key driver of evolution, but she persisted. Through numerous collaborations she caused a seismic shift in our understanding of life.

Filmmaker John Feldman traveled globally to meet Margulis' cutting-edge colleagues and continually asked: What happens when the truth changes? Symbiotic Earth examines the worldview that has led to climate change and extreme capitalism and offers a new approach to understanding life that encourages a sustainable and symbiotic lifestyle. Elizabeth Henderson, an organic farmer, published author and leader in efforts that support organic farming and CSAs will lead a discussion.

Tuesday February 5, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Greece Baptist Church

1230 Long Pond Road

Rochester, NY 14626

For more information, contact: Brandon Arva at greecebaptist@yahoo.com

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ColorBrightonGreen.org Winter Film Series

Wednesday February 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Brighton Memorial Library

Friends Learning Center

For more information, contact Margy Peet at info@colorbrightongreen.org

Other upcoming presentations:

Wednesday March 6 – Film screening of SEED: The Untold Story

Time:

6:30pm

Location:

Brighton Memorial Library Friends Learning Center

Description:

Movie: Symbiotic Earth

How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution

Symbiotic Earth explores the life and ideas of scientific rebel Lynn Margulis who challenged entrenched theories of male-dominated science. As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed when she first proposed that symbiosis – when organisms live and work together — was a key driver of evolution, but she persisted. Through numerous collaborations she caused a seismic shift in our understanding of life.

Filmmaker John Feldman traveled globally to meet Margulis' cutting-edge colleagues and continually asked: What happens when the truth changes? Symbiotic Earth examines the worldview that has led to climate change and extreme capitalism and offers a new approach to understanding life that encourages a sustainable and symbiotic lifestyle. Elizabeth Henderson, an organic farmer, published author and leader in efforts that support organic farming and CSAs will lead a discussion.

ColorBrightonGreen.org Winter Film Series

Wednesday February 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Brighton Memorial Library

Friends Learning Center

For more information, contact Margy Peet at info@colorbrightongreen.org

Other upcoming presentations:

Wednesday March 6 – Film screening of SEED: The Untold Story

Time:

7:00pm

Location:

Downtown Presbyterian Church* 121 North Fitzhugh St., Rochester

Description:

“A Perspective on the Migrant Caravan: Religion, Civil Society, and the Politics of Naming”

February 6, 2019, 7 PM Downtown Presbyterian Church* 121 North Fitzhugh St., Rochester

*The church is accessible to those with mobility impairments and looped for the hearing impaired.

For more information: Karleen West, karleen.rocla@gmail.com
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/347385776107078/

The Central American migrant caravans of 2018 and 2019 have brought renewed attention to the contemporary refugee crisis in the Western hemisphere. Yet they have also brought stigma to the word “caravan” and a debate over the appropriate forms of political engagement on the part of migrants and their allies and advocates.
In this talk, Professor Martha Balaguera will address the politics of naming surrounding the so-called “caravan,” and provide her perspective on the collective and public migration of thousands of displaced Central Americans across Mexico en route to the United States. In the process, Balaguera will discuss the historical origins and religious foundations of migrant caravans in southern Mexico, and the larger debates that the word “caravan” conjures with respect to the humanity of migrants.

Martha Balaguera is an Assistant Professor of Political Science who teaches at the University of Toronto-Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego, during the 2017-2018 academic year. Martha’s work focuses on social movements in violent contexts, with an emphasis on transborder forms of activism in the Americas from a feminist perspective.

Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

Bring Them Home Vigils

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

4:00pm

Location:

Nazareth College Schultz Center, Forum

Description:

Seminar on Harmony and Coexisting
Celebrating UN World Harmony Week
Panel discussion on Abrahamic Religious Values in response to Hate Speech, Racial & Religious Slurs.
When
Thursday, Feb. 7th, 4-6pm
Where
Nazareth College Schultz Center, Forum
More information
Celebrating UN World Harmony Week: The Hickey Center is hosting a Forum Panel Discussion featuring Dr. Marvin McMickle, Rabbi Abie Abrahams, and Imam Manzarul Islam. Moderated by Dr. Susan Nowak from the Religious Studies Department at Nazareth College.

RSVP https://www.smore.com/ma1zw-spiritual-journeys?ref=email

Time:

10:00am

Location:

School #53 Montessori Acadamy (625 Scio St Rochester NY

Description:

Saturday, February 9th 10:00AM- Rochester City School District Town Hall Budget Meeting- This event will take place at School #53 Montessori Acadamy (625 Scio St Rochester NY). Parents, students and community members are invited to a presentation and open dialoug about the 2019-2020 budget. If you plan to attend please contact Lead Organizer Mercedes Phelan mphelan@citizenactionny.org

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

2:00pm

Location:

First Universalist Church, 150 S. Clinton (corner Court St) ~ sanctuary

Description:

The ability to support oneself and one's family is not a privilege; it is a right!

LET THIS BE THE YEAR!
Support passage of the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act
All workers in the fields and on dairy farms deserve
*a day of rest *overtime pay *collective bargaining rights
Join us for a TOWN HALL
for Justice for New York State Farmworkers
Legacy of shame - Harvest of hope!
Sunday, February 10, 2-4 p.m.
First Universalist Church, 150 S. Clinton

Together let's send a message to Albany that we care!
The Bill will give all farmworkers in NY State basic workers rights and guaranteed protections under the law that many of us take for granted!
We invite you to wear a red bandana to be in solidarity

Time:

6:00pm

Location:

Flying Squirrel Community Space 285 Clarissa St. Rochester, NY

Description:

We are STEAMed: Bridging the Gender Gap for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics

Monday, February 11, 2019
6pm
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
Suggested donation: $5
No one turned away for lack of funds!

Please join University of Rochester Medical Center researchers Dr. Monica Javidnia and Dr. Jessica Francis (@wearesteamed) in an interactive workshop on the current state and trajectory of women in STEAM fields. Topics to be explored: Where are we now? Where are we going? How might we get there?

The Flying Squirrel Community Space is offering intentional programming for 2019. The months of January and February are dedicated to issues of consent and patriarchy. We are also offering one practical activist skillshare or workshop per month.

Time:

6:30pm

Location:

Metro Justice Community Space at the Hungerford Building, Door#7, Second floor, 1115 E Main Street.

Description:

SUSTAINABLE HOMES ROCHESTER

Sustainable Homes Rochester (SHR) is a community campaign designed to encourage residents to install clean heating and cooling (CH&C) technologies and improve home energy efficiency. The City of Rochester received a $150,000 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to launch the SHR campaign in partnership with PathStone Corporation Home Rehabilitation and Energy Services (PathStone) and the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition (RPCC).

Why install Clean Heating and Cooling Technologies?

CH&C technologies include air source heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and ground source heat pumps. CH&C installations offer many benefits:

Sustainable Homes Rochester - Clean. Comfortable. Affordable
Clean - safe for your home and better for the environment
Comfortable – provides both heating and cooling so you can set your home at your ideal temperature throughout the year
Affordable – lowers your energy bills as technologies are more efficient, and last longer with low maintenance

More at: https://www.cityofrochester.gov/shr/

Sustainable Homes Rochester Information Events

Attend one of the information events below to enroll in person, meet a contractor from the SHR team and learn more about the campaign:

Feb. 11, 2019, 6:30-8 p.m., Metro Justice Community Space at the Hungerford Building, Door#7, Second floor, 1115 E Main Street.
Feb. 28, 2019, 7-9 p.m., First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Road South.

Time:

6:15am

Location:

Citizen Action Office (515 State St Rochester NY)

Description:

Tuesday, February 12th- Fair Elections Day of Action- Its time to make Albany work for all New Yorkers, not just big donors! join us for a statewide day of action in Albany to tackle the crisis we face in housing, living wage jobs, affordable health care, transportation, criminal justice, climate, fair taxes and more. We must transform a campaign finance system that advantages the interest of the few over those of the many. Bus Pickup is at 6:15AM at the Citizen Action Office (515 State St Rochester NY).

Please Email Lead Organizer Mercedes Phelan
mphelan@citizenactionny.org
food and transportation will be provided.

Time:

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location:

First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

5:00pm

Location:

RIT Reading Room, Campus Center 2050

Description:

RIT’s English Department Creative Writing Faculty are pleased host a reading by Poet and Essayist
Mary A. Hood
Wednesday, Feb. 20
5 until 7:00 pm
Reading Room, Campus Center 2050
Professor Emerita of microbiology at the University of West Florida, Mary A. Hood grew up in a small town near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Besides publishing over sixty scientific/technical articles in the field of microbial ecology and articles on conservation and the environment, she is author of The Strangler Fig and Other Tales: Field Notes of a Conservationist (2004 Rowman &Littlefield), RiverTime: Ecotravels on the World’s Rivers (2008 SUNY Press), Walking Seasonal Roads (2012 Syracuse University Press) and Sanctuaries: Parks, Reserves and Places of Refuge in the World (2017). All the Spectral Fractures (2017 Shade Mountain Press), and a soon to be published poetry chapbook Proverbs and Old Idioms.
Hood approaches her varied subject matter—swamps and forests, small-town life, high-stakes science—with bracing honesty and compassion. Her poems offer meditations on the interconnections between humans, plants, and animals (“we of the self-replicating molecules”), and portraits of ordinary people “trying to keep it together / without the glue of ego, uncertain a unified theory / resolves chaos, wondering if we must break / to be whole.”

This event is free and open to the public.
For more info, contact: P.Swartzfager@rit.edu
If you require captioning or an interpreter, please visit NTID Access Services to request: https://myaccess.rit.edu/myAccess5/

Time:

9:00am - 3:00pm

Location:

Flaum Atrium at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry at Strong Memorial Hosp

Description:

University of Rochester School of Medicine Students

Present

“Im/migrant Worker Conference: Healthcare Barriers and Solutions”

February 23, 9 AM-3 PM

University of Rochester School of Medicine

For more information or to register: https://URSMDMWC.wordpress.com

Conference participants will:

1. Gain an awareness about the im/migrant worker communities in upstate NY and their barriers to healthcare.

2. Acquire new skills to foster providing competent care to im/migrant workers.

3. Engage with individuals who provide activism and advocacy for the im/migrant worker community, building partnerships for sustainable collaboration.

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

7:00pm

Location:

First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Road South

Description:

SUSTAINABLE HOMES ROCHESTER

Sustainable Homes Rochester (SHR) is a community campaign designed to encourage residents to install clean heating and cooling (CH&C) technologies and improve home energy efficiency. The City of Rochester received a $150,000 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to launch the SHR campaign in partnership with PathStone Corporation Home Rehabilitation and Energy Services (PathStone) and the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition (RPCC).

Why install Clean Heating and Cooling Technologies?

CH&C technologies include air source heat pumps, heat pump water heaters and ground source heat pumps. CH&C installations offer many benefits:

Sustainable Homes Rochester - Clean. Comfortable. Affordable
Clean - safe for your home and better for the environment
Comfortable – provides both heating and cooling so you can set your home at your ideal temperature throughout the year
Affordable – lowers your energy bills as technologies are more efficient, and last longer with low maintenance

More at: https://www.cityofrochester.gov/shr/

Sustainable Homes Rochester Information Events

Attend one of the information events below to enroll in person, meet a contractor from the SHR team and learn more about the campaign:

Feb. 28, 2019, 7-9 p.m., First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Road South.