Houston Peace News 2017 Jazz Fundraiser
Houston Mennonite Church 1231 Wirt Rd., Houston, TX, United StatesFeaturing: Peace Camp Youth, Bob Henschen Jazz Quartet, Free Radicals, vegetarian Indian dinner, and an Art Auction
$10 – $30
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Center for Civic Engagement-Kingwood 2017-18 Schedule
Civic engagement means promoting the quality of life in a community through both political and nonpolitical processes. It teaches many different executive skills such as: grit, self-control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and curiosity. Check the event for multiple topics and dates.
Share Your Peace: Creatives Resist
Solidarity Houston 6733 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX, United StatesAs part of our continued efforts to create platforms for peace, self-expression, and creativity, we our hosting our first "Share Your Peace" poetry/prose recitation. One of the most important tools for building a culture of peace, is self expression. Therefore, we invite all poets, writers, resisters, lovers, painters, and creatives of every kind to come and share your peace. Tell us how you live peace. Show us how you live justice. Guide us through your art journey and let's build a creative bond together.
$5 – $10
Palm Center Farmers Market
Palm Center Park 6017 Beekman Rd, Houston, TX, United StatesJoin us this weekend at the Houston Southeast Farmer's Market in the Park at Palm Center. Created to provide a way for the community to maintain a healthy eating lifestyle, Houston Southeast Farmer's Market occurs on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month.
This family outing offers sale items such as fruits, vegetables, herbs, homemade treats and apparel.
This a FREE family friendly event. We hope to see you there!
No Borders/Sin Fronteras
Shape Community Center 3903 Almeda Rd, Houston, TXAs part of Campaign Nonviolence-Houston's continued effort to educate the masses of the struggles that communities are going through and their creative ways of liberating themselves, we have partnered with Black Rose/Rosa Negra to bring you this film SIN FRONTERAS/NO BORDERS produced by Sur Negro Communicaciones
https://eng.surnegro.tv/
$10
Houston Anarchist Book Fair
MECA 1900 Kane St., Houston, United StatesAnnouncing the 2017 Houston Anarchist Bookfair! On Sunday September 24, 2017, Houston Anarchist Black Cross will host a one-day convergence to network, grow, and celebrate anarchist and anti-authoritarian projects in Texas and the surrounding region. Join us for books, workshops, and discussion to celebrate and expand our southern radical communities of resistance!
Free
Connections between People & Nature: Biodiversity
online not applicable, not applicable, United StatesSunday Evening Conversations on Creation Continue… Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to attend Sunday Evening Conversations on Creation, an environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2017 is Connections between People and Nature. At the September web meeting, we welcome Professor Kerri Crawford, Assistant Professor of Biology & Biochemistry at the […]
Free
Art and Incarceration: Poetry, Theatre and Music in and about Captivity
Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, HoustonConcert, Ensemble Pi
For this interdisciplinary performance, Ensemble Pi presents music, text, and theater works that focus on the rise of mass incarceration, the racial disparities it reveals, and the emotional toll it takes on inmates and their families. The concert opens with Rzewski’s minimalist masterpiece, Coming Together, composed in the wake of the 1971 prison riots in upstate New York and powerfully expressing the frustration of life behind bars and anger about injustice.
Pay what you can
Double Jeopardy: Women and the Criminal Justice System
Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston2017 Rothko Chapel Óscar Romero Award Pre-Program
Double jeopardy: Women and the Criminal Justice System
Conversation and Book Signing with Julie Bindel
Women of sex trafficking face the dual realities of being victims while also being prosecuted as offenders. Join Julie Bindel in conversation with Houston activists and advocates as they explore this topic from both local and global perspectives.
Pay what you can
Justice Without Death
First Congregational Church of Houston 10840 Beinhorn Road, Houston, TX, United StatesJustice Without Death Shared stories from murder victim family members of healing through reconciliation, and Q&A with the Office of Kim Ogg, Harris County District Attorney. Told from personal experiences of loss of loved ones to murder, storytellers recount their tragedies and their struggles in a “Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing.” These murder victim […]
Free
Calming the Mind: Joy of Living Level 1
Dominican Sisters of Houston 6501 Almeda Rd, Houston, TX, United StatesIn this weekend meditation workshop, we will learn how cultivating awareness can help create a peaceful mind and joyful heart. The practice of meditation enables us to transform all experiences, even difficult emotions and painful thoughts, into sources of joy. Over the course of this weekend, we will explore the landscape of our experience with mindful awareness, learning how to use the body, sensory experiences, thoughts, emotions, and even awareness itself as supports for meditation.
$75 – $125
Rescheduled: A Dialogue about “Tears We Cannot Stop”
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United StatesWorking as a white ally against racism is hard but not impossible. One thing that doesn’t help is saying “I don’t see color.” The failure to see color only benefits white America. A world without color is a world without racial debt. Help the Center for the Healing of Racism develop better allies […]
Free. Donations encouraged. RSVP required.
The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of Racism in the US
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United StatesAuthors Mark Tschaepe and Ronald Goodwin will discuss their new book, The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of Racism in the US, on Wednesday, October 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Center for the Healing of Racism, 3412 Crawford St., Houston, 77004. Tschaepe and Goodwin, assistant professors at Prairie View A&M University, will also sign copies of books purchased at the event.
Free. Donations encouraged. Registration required.
White Like Me (screening and discussion)
Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room 6501 Almeda Rd, HoustonFor there to be racial justice in America much work is needed within the white discussion. Please join the Dominican Sisters of Houston for a discussion of the film that covers "Race, Racism and White Privilege in America.
Free
Benefit Concert for the Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston
Bohemeo's Cafe & Coffeeshop 708 Telephone Rd., Houston, TX, United StatesEnjoy a concert by the band Traveler & a special guest while sipping coffee/beer/wine and nibbling tasty food at Bohemeo’s, 708 Telephone Rd. The concert benefits the new Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston (IENoH), the Houston chapter of Texas Interfaith Power & Light, a division of the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy. The IENoH aims to educate and empower the faith community in Houston to advocate and act as stewards of the environment. A suggested donation of $20 will be accepted at the door. For more information, contact Lisa Brenskelle
$20
Grassroots Relief and Empowerment on Houston’s Eastside
Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th, Houston, TX, United StatesJoin Cavanaugh Nweze and Andrew Cobb of West Street Recovery to hear about grassroots relief work and ongoing empowerment work in communities of color in Houston's Eastside. The team started out doing boat rescues and 5 weeks after the storm they continue to demo homes and coordinate supply needs for these communities. They are also […]
Free
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Ads in Peacemaker Awards Booklet
Buy an advertisement in the program booklet for the upcoming HPJC Peacemaker Awards Dinner. Promote your organization, advertise your business, or write a note of thanks to peace activists. Our hope is that these ads will help cover the cost of printing the booklet while providing an additional way to celebrate and encourage the journey […]
The Journey of Hope…From Violence to Healing
The Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing puts human faces on the issue of the death penalty. Led by murder victim family members joined by death row families, the exonerated and others impacted by the failed promises of a broken system. Our unique personal stories touch people’s hearts and change people's minds on this vitally important issue. We advocate for alternatives to the death penalty, we encourage forgiveness as a way of healing and endorse restorative justice as a way of life.
Get Your Garden ON! Join Transition for our Fall 2017 Permablitz
Come together with like minded people to learn how to learn about permaculture, live more sustainably and help build community! Our projects for the recipient of this permablitz include
• Planting / seeding a garden
• adding a spiral garden bed
• and more!
Dialogue: Racism
Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Center for the Healing of Racism presents Dialogue: Racism, a two-day intensive workshop that educates participants about racism and facilitates the process by which individuals can begin to counter the affects of racism on their lives and become empowered to interrupt the cycle of racist attitudes. The workshop provides a safe, respectful, and loving atmosphere for individuals to learn new information, share experiences, dispel fears and guilt, and get to know each other.
Free. Donations encouraged. Registration required.