\nPeaceWorks Rochester Community Calendar

Time:

6:00pm

Description:

Music is all around us: in the grocery store aisles, in the background of our favorite television show, in a rhythm we experience from our natural environment. From it, we can learn, remember, feel, celebrate, and connect with one and other.

Every known human culture has had some form of music. But in the rest of the animal world, the ability to understand and create music is rare. Where rhesus monkeys just experience noise, humans hear melody and rhythm.

So what makes music so universal among humans? How does sound become something more? And how does it evoke such a wide range of emotions? Come explore with us at…

Unity Night, December 1st, 2018

Please bring a dish to pass and join us for our regular community meal at 6 p.m. As always, there will be good food and friendly faces.

Later, around 7 p.m., join us as we delve into the mystery of music as it relates to the human experience. First, we will watch a short film. Next, our Official Good Person Dana Paxson will offer some commentary on music and the human experience. Dana loves music – singing and dancing and guitar playing – and he writes about music, science, math, and all those glorious patterns that wake up our humanity.

Finally, Sandra Kurzdorfer will bless us with a sound bath meditation, meant to relax, balance, and heal by facilitating a shift in the brain wave state. If you’d like, you may bring a yoga mat or blanket so that you may lay on the floor to enhance this experience; it is also fine to stay seated. For more information on sound baths, check out this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/tune-in-and-chill-out-what-are-sound-baths-and-why-you-should-try-one/2017/05/02/e74c697c-2b7c-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.2e11aae34155 Sandra has been teaching yoga for 8 years. She specializes in Yin yoga, Restorative yoga and Therapeutic yoga. Her focus is healing the physical body while relieving emotional and mental stress through mindful awareness.

Unlike all of the other Unity Nights we’ve had in the past, this one is not suggested for young children who are unable to stay still for the half-hour sound bath. We look forward to seeing you at this thought-provoking and relaxing evening.

Steph.

Unity Night is a free community-building event that uses hospitality, vibrant programming, and the arts as a way to create a space for meaningful conversations.
The Rochester Baha'i Center is located at 693 East Avenue with a parking lot and entrance to the Baha'i Center on Oxford Street. Use 186 Oxford Street for GPS directions; parking lot and entrance opposite

Unity Night: a seedbed for growing a cohesive community.🌿

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

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

Time:

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Location:

1010 East Ave. (the red brick building just west of Asbury)

Description:

David Inglis for Pachamama Alliance

Seeds of Hope of Pachamama Alliance Rochester is presenting a practical program on converting to sustainable electricity.

Anyone who pays an RGE bill can switch to green energy by:
 Buying a rooftop solar array
 Leasing a rooftop solar array
 Participating in community solar
 Choosing a green Energy Service Co.
 Switching to RGE’s Wind Energy option
 Getting your town to choose sustainable energy through Community Choice Aggregation

Come and find out how easy it is to go green!
1:30-3:00 Sunday, December 2
1010 East Ave. (the red brick building just west of Asbury)

Please RSVP to David Inglis at dri.inglis@gmail.com by Wednesday, November 28th.

Time:

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location:

Living Room at Legacy at Cranberry Landing

Description:

Join us for our Holiday Celebration featuring
poet JACK BRADIGAN SPULA this Sunday, December
2, 2-5 pm, in the Living Room at Legacy at Cranberry
Landing. Jack's reading will be followed by our Open
Mic.

Jack Bradigan Spula is a lifelong lover of and advocate for
the Eastern Great Lakes bioregion. He was trained as a pianist and
musicologist and worked for decades as a community organizer and
alternative journalist.

Born and raised in Niagara Falls, NY, Jack is a longtime
Rochester resident and frequent pilgrim throughout the Adirondacks and the
Southern Tier, Ontario Quebec, Pennsylvania and New England. His poetry is
an attempt to put that pilgrimage into the right
words

Jack' has had poems published in Epiphany, Domestic Crude,
and other mags, His collection of poems, Nobody But Ancestors was
published by Foothills in 2012. He's also been anthologized in Liberty's
Vigil and Trumped.

He's taught English at Monroe Community College, RIT,
Nazareth, the University of Houston and at Attica and other correctional
facilities through Genesee Community College. He's also taught creative
writing at Writers & Books.

Don't forget that our open mics are NOT limited to poets: singers, musicians, short fiction writers, comics, and even dancers are also welcome.

Even if you can't join us, if you know folks who might enjoy attending, to perform or as audience members, pass the word and send them the following link to this public invite:
http://j.mp/RoPo1812

You can also support RoPo's ongoing efforts with an annual membership, which is still only $20. To join using your credit/debit card, go to http://squareup.com/store/rochester-poets/

Our readings are FREE and open to the public; donations to support Rochester Poets are encouraged and gratefully accepted. Refreshments served.

See you on Sunday,

Frank Judge
President
Rochester Poets
585-260-9005

Time:

12:00pm

Location:

Federal Building, 100 State Street.

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, December 3, 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:

5:30pm

Location:

Downtown Presbyterian Church 121 North Fitzhugh Street

Description:

Join us for a joint ROCLA/CIUDAD HERMANA Celebration!

Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Downtown Presbyterian Church
121 North Fitzhugh Street
Pot Luck Supper 5:30 PM-- Please bring a dish to pass
Presentation 7:00 PM

GUEST SPEAKERS: Martha Rojas and Ashley Sullivan,
staff members of the Ciudad Hermana Task Force 

In January 1988, eight people from the Rochester area flew to Managua, and then traveled to El Sauce, in northwest Nicaragua. While we were in Managua and then El Sauce, we saw the reality that the U.S. Contra War was causing immense suffering to the people of Nicaragua. There was no valid reason for the Contra War—President Reagan was obsessed with his desire to destroy a successful revolutionary government. We said, “It’s the threat of a good example.” When we returned home, Henrietta Levine convened the first meeting of what is now the Ciudad Hermana Task Force. The CH Task Force has worked for 30 years in solidarity with the people of El Sauce, Nicaragua.

Time:

6:00pm

Location:

St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2000 Highland Avenue, Rochester 14618

Description:

Mark Dunlea, the recent Green Party candidate for State Comptroller, will speak in Rochester this Wednesday Dec. 5th at 6 PM.

Here is an op ed on climate change that Mark recently wrote for the Times Union. -- The UN says we have 12 years left for an emergency worldwide mobilization to address climate change. We need New York to provide national leadership by enacting the strongest climate change agenda possible. The Off Fossil Fuels act would immediately halt all new fossil fuel infrastructure, transition to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030 (i.e., net zero greenhouse gas emissions), and require all new buildings to be at least net zero carbon emissions http://gelfny.org/news/news-releases/ny-greennewdeal/

Wed. Dec. 5 in Rochester St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2000 Highland Avenue, Rochester 14618. Please join Mark Dunlea, Green Education and Legal Fund ; Neely Kelly, senior NYS organizer for Mothers Out Front; Al Hibner, Citizen's Climate Lobby; Benny Smith, Rochester Youth Climate Leaders; and Ben Frevert, Rochester People's Climate Coalition for a round-table discussion

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:

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:

11:00am

Location:

Greece Baptist Church 1230 Long Pond Road Rochester, NY 14626 (near northeast corner of Long Pond R

Description:

Greece Baptist Church will be hosting a presentation by the Rochester Electric Vehicle
Accelerator (ROC EV) on Sunday, December 9th from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Join us to learn about
the benefits of electric vehicles and find out why you should make the switch to driving electric!
You can register early to take an EV test drive after the presentation by visiting
https://www.rochesterevs.com/register
Or just come!
All are welcome!

For more info, contact Brandon Arva at 225-6160

Greece Baptist Church
1230 Long Pond Road
Rochester, NY 14626 (near northeast corner of Long Pond Road and Ridge Raod)

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

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

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:

7:00pm

Location:

First Unitarian Church 220 South Winton Road Rochester, NY 14610

Description:

First Hand Account of the Crisis at Our Southern Border

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·Why did The Central American Caravan come to our Southern Border?
·What can we do about resolving the humanitarian crisis at the border?

These are questions that inspired local veterans Bob Ames and Lew Montemaggi to go to
Nogales, Arizona, on November 7-20, 2018.

You are invited to their presentation and discussion on

Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 7:00 PM
First Unitarian Church
220 South Winton Road
Rochester, NY 14610

They will talk about their participation in the School of the Americas Watch/El Encuentro, which is an annual demonstration with workshops protesting US policies in Latin America and along the US/Mexican border.

Additionally, they participated in humanitarian work with an Arizona group. Theywent on a water drop and desert search, worked in a soup kitchen, and attended the deportation trials of recently arrested migrants.

They will share many stories. Be sure to ask about the “Cowgirl!”

Square VFP Stickers [20 pack] This talk is sponsored by Veterans For Peace, Chapter 23, Rochester, NY
and First Unitarian Honduras Ministries.

Co-sponsors and endorsers include: PA&E, PIA, ROCLA, Band of Rebels, Alianza Agricola,
Green Light Driving Together, and the Parma Democratic Committee.

Time:

9:30am

Location:

Rochester City School District 131 W Broad St, Rochester, New York 14614

Description:

DEC
15
Interrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline March
Public · Hosted by Citizen Action of New York - Rochester Chapter
InterestedGoing

Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 9:30 AM – 11 AM

Rochester City School District
131 W Broad St, Rochester, New York 14614

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:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

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

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

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