Thursday, April 29th at 7pm Food for Thought Books is hosting a community dialogue on smashing racism as part of their Celebration for Liberation series. A suggested $5-25 donation will help support the effort to bring people from Western MA (including youth from VV!) to the US Social Forum in Detroit this June. Check out the Food for Thought Books website or Facebook for more information about upcoming events in the Celebration for Liberation series.
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And because it is impossible to have too much dialogue, you should also join YAC for the third installment of the Dialogue Project on Friday, April 30th from 3:45-6pm. The first two conversations were amazing, and we hope to have even more YACies participate in this third and final dialogue. Come one, come all! Help YAC advance our goal of being an anti-racist organization. Partake in the DELICIOUS food that Leda so generously provides us.
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From El Barrio to the World: Community Film Festival
5/1 -- 1-5pm @ Hooker Auditorium, Mt. Holyoke College
Join Mt. Holyoke College student organizers and a consortium of local youth, college students and filmmakers for an afternoon of inspiring videos! YAC’s Video Vanguards youth will represent! For more info: (646) 703-3205 or youthsummits09@gmail.com
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Site Beyond Sight
Friday, May 7, 2010 -- 7-10pm
Hampshire College Library Gallery
Join our Get Up Get Down Program Coordinator, Hampshire College student, and artist, Kamil Peters, for this innovative exhibition. Experience the magic of masks!
Get Up Get Down youth creations will also be shown, part of Kamil’s critical pedagogy explorations with GUGD.
In Kamil's words:
"A gallery show, and the magic of the influence that the beginning of time contributed to make today what it is. Masks have been a part of every culture, before the oceans were explored cultures across the globe were creating some form of face-altering imagery that went beyond "art", because it was a way of life. My show is an attempt to bring that form of homage to the present day."
Hampshire College Library Gallery
Join our Get Up Get Down Program Coordinator, Hampshire College student, and artist, Kamil Peters, for this innovative exhibition. Experience the magic of masks!
Get Up Get Down youth creations will also be shown, part of Kamil’s critical pedagogy explorations with GUGD.
In Kamil's words:
"A gallery show, and the magic of the influence that the beginning of time contributed to make today what it is. Masks have been a part of every culture, before the oceans were explored cultures across the globe were creating some form of face-altering imagery that went beyond "art", because it was a way of life. My show is an attempt to bring that form of homage to the present day."
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As part of its work on Social Justice and Health Equity, The Town of Amherst and the Amherst Department of Human Rights and Human Resources is extending a special invitation to all interested people to FREE screenings and discussions of:
UNNATURAL CAUSES… is inequality making us sick?
DATES
28 April 2010—Place Matters
12 May 2010—Not Just a Paycheck: co-sponsored by YAC!
19 May 2010—In Sickness and In Wealth
9 June 2010—When the Bough Breaks
16 June 2010—Bad Sugar
23 June 2010—Collateral Damage
TIME 5:00pm—7:00pm
5:00—5:30 Registration
5:30—6:00 Screening
6:00—7:00 Dialogue to Action
WHERE
Amherst Cinema
This program is FREE and open to the public. Because seating is limited, we recommend obtaining free tickets IN ADVANCE at the Amherst Cinema box office.
The screening will include a forum—Implications of inequality and health for the Amherst community: A dialogue among participants—facilitated by Dr. Barbara J. Love and introductions by Amherst Human Rights/Human Resources Director, Eunice Torres.
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Please Join Us!
Capturing Stories for Community End of Year Exhibit, Discussion and Celebration
Thursday, May 13th 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Food for Thought Books
106 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002-1703
(413) 253-5432
www.foodforthoughtbooks.com
Capturing Stories for Community is a collaboration between the Community Engagement Program of Commonwealth Honors College--UMass Amherst and six local community-based organizations: Nuestras Raíces, the Literacy Project, Youth Action Coalition, the Amherst Survival Center, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Hampshire County, and the Center for New Americans
In this year-long community-based research project, students volunteered in one of six community-based organizations, conducted research on relevant economic, social and policy issues, and collected oral histories of people who participate in and are served by the community organizations.
The collected stories are one way for the participating community organizations to honor and share the life experiences and views of the individuals with whom they work and serve. The course explores the role that stories can play in deepening our understanding of public issues and building community capacity and challenges us to think about the relationships among community, history and social change. This end of year presentation is an opportunity for all those involved in the project, and others, to hear a selection of the stories and learn more about the project.
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