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Art and Incarceration: Poetry, Theatre and Music in and about Captivity

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

Concert, 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, Houston

2017 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 States

Justice 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 States

In 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 States

Working 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 States

Authors 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, Houston

For 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 States

Enjoy 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 States

Join 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!

Event Series Dialogue: Racism

Dialogue: Racism

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX, United States

The 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.

Justice Without Death

First Congregational Church of Houston 10840 Beinhorn Road, Houston, TX, United States

Justice 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.

Free

Keeping the Peace Without Threatening War: Dr. Lloyd J. Dumas

Scanlan Room | University of St. Thomas | 4000 Mt. Vernon St. Houston, TX 77006 Scanlan Room | University of St. Thomas | 4000 Mt. Vernon St. Houston, TX 77006, Houston

In the Foreign Policy Alliance’s first speaker program, Professor Lloyd J. Dumas (Political Economy, UT-Dallas) will discuss his recent book, The Peacekeeping Economy: Using Economic Relations to Build a More Peaceful, Prosperous and Secure World (Yale University Press.) The presentation, co-sponsored with Distinguished Diplomats Program of the University of St. Thomas’ Center for International Studies, is free and open to all.

Free

Alternatives To Violence Project Basic Workshop

TX, United States

AVP is dedicated to reducing violence: on the streets, at work, in schools, in homes, and in relationships everywhere
AVP provides tools for creative, nonviolent resolution to conflicts used by peace workers such as Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus of Nazareth, and many others

$75

HPJC Quarterly Board Meeting

Houston Mennonite Church 1231 Wirt Rd., Houston, TX, United States

The Houston Peace & Justice Center will be holding its Board Meeting on Saturday, October 21st from 1-3pm.

This Board Meeting replaces the quarterly meeting that had to be canceled August 26 due to Harvey.

The meeting is at the Mennonite Church at 1231 Wirt Rd. and is open to the public!

Free

NOT IN MY NAME: A conversation on the Korean nuclear threat

Houston Mennonite Church 1231 Wirt Rd., Houston, TX, United States

As Houstonians of faith our DNA is infused with action, response, and hope. Join us for an open community dialogue about the increased rhetoric of war with Korea. What can we do to stop war, and what can we do to respond to it. We'll share resources, pray, and dialogue about: Anti-war action steps we can […]

Free

Walls of Racism and Oppression: From TX to Palestine & Beyond

Dominican Sisters of Houston Spirituality Center Meeting Room 6501 Almeda Rd, Houston

A nine-person Veterans For Peace delegation visited Palestine/Israel earlier this year. While there, they met with Palestinian popular resistance leaders as well as members of the Knesset. They participated in nonviolent direct action and witnessed the resiliency, solidarity, creativity and courage of the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation and the settlements that steal their land, water, and other resources.

$10 – $15
Event Series Journey of the Universe screenings

Journey of the Universe screenings

University of St. Thomas 3800 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

You are invited to go on the Journey of the Universe in October, with three opportunities to be awe-struck by this Emmy-award winning documentary which narrates the 14 billion year story of the universe's development in a single hour. The film tells this story in a way that is accessible to everyone: drawing on astronomy and physics to explain the emergence of galaxies and stars, geology and chemistry to understand the formation of Earth, biology and botany to trace life's evolution, and anthropology and history to see the rise of humans. Journey weaves science and humanities in a new way that allows for a comprehensive sense of awe and wonder to arise. This approach expands the human perspective to one that values life's complexity and sees the role of humans as critical to the further flourishing of the Earth community. An open facilitated discussion will follow each film screening.

Free