June 11, 2014 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
In the Spirit of the “What If…” Film Series, City Parks and SUNY-ESF Center for Community Design Research present the film, Play Again. Followed by a discussion about the role of urban parks, your current experience with parks and your hopes for the future of…
June 1, 2014 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Ruth C. Putter, 95, died on April 8, 2014 after a brief illness. The ArtRage Gallery will partner with the Gage Foundation for a celebration of Ruth’s remarkable life at 2pm on June 1st at the ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Avenue in Syracuse. We hope…
May 31, 2014 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY The feature-length documentary God Loves Uganda is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting “sexual immorality” and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans…
May 20, 2014 - 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Six Nations Against Fracking screening & New Yorkers Against Fracking Meeting Join New Yorkers Against Fracking; film maker Messiah Rhodes and Haudenosaunee people that are working with others to ban fracking (in what is now known as New York State) for a double feature of…
May 19, 2014 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Gaining Ground – Community Screening at Tucker Missionary Baptist Church Foreclosures. Unemployment. Childhood poverty. All these problems have hit American cities hard since the Great Recession. Gaining Ground, a follow-up to the award-winning documentary Holding Ground (1996), shows how one diverse Boston neighborhood working together…
May 18, 2014 - 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Dawud Assad al Nakba: disaster, catastrophe. The 1948 Palestinian exodus that occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs left, fled or were expelled from their homes in what is today the State of Israel. Join CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel…
May 14, 2014 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Gaining Ground (2013) Foreclosures. Unemployment. Childhood poverty. All these problems have hit American cities hard since the Great Recession. Gaining Ground, a follow-up to the award-winning documentary Holding Ground (1996), shows how one diverse Boston neighborhood working together has stemmed the tide against enormous odds.
April 30, 2014 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Red Hook Justice (2004) A Film by Meema Spadola In 2000, an experimental court opened its doors in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a neighborhood plagued by a cycle of unemployment, poverty and crime. The Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC) is at the center of a…
April 24, 2014 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Red Hook Justice (2004) A Film by Meema Spadola In 2000, an experimental court opened its doors in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a neighborhood plagued by a cycle of unemployment, poverty and crime. The Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC) is at the center of a…
April 23, 2014 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Celebrate Earth Day with Author Robin Wall Kimmerer. Robin will speak about her new book, “Braiding Sweetgrass” and our connection to the Earth. The title of the book and braiding is what Robin Wall Kimmerer does, weaving her strands of biology professor, mother and Potawatomi woman….
