Syracuse Cultural Workers invites you to come celebrate the powerful artwork and inspirational words that fill the 2025 Peace Calendar and the 2025 Women Artists Datebook. People who created both publications will be on hand to talk about the process and meaning behind it, along with poetry readings from poets included in the Datebook.

There will also be sharing about Dik Cool’s ongoing legacy of cultural activism.

Onondaga County Poet Laureate and Datebook Poetry Editor Georgia Popoff will emcee the event.

Full details on Facebook here. It’s a great way to share the event and invite others too!
Free and open to the public.

Syracuse Cultural Workers was founded in 1982 to continue publishing the Peace Calendar, which had been initiated and coordinated by Dik Cool while on staff at the Syracuse Peace Council (SPC). The first Peace Calendar was published in 1972 edition (see the excellent history of the Peace Calendar by Linda Perla published in the 1996 Calendar); the first 11 editions (through the 1982 American Myths) were published by SPC. In July 1982 the SPC Steering Committee decided not to do another edition. Dik and four others (Karen Kerney, Linda Perla, Jack Manno and Jan Phillips) decided they wanted to continue the tradition and SCW was born!