Events

January 17 & 18, 2010

WNEC Campus Conversations on Race

Location: Western New England College

              Student Senate Chambers

              1st Floor Campus Center

Time: For more information please contact:

Judith Barlow-Roberts

or call 860-640-0022

January 30 - 31, 2010

YAC presents

Advanced Help Increase the Peace Program (HIPP)

Dates: January 30 -31, 2010

Time: 9:30AM – 4:30 PM

Location: NCCJ Office

              1095 Day Hill Road, Ste 100,

              Windsor, CT 06095

Fee: suggested donation of $5 to cover lunch.

Youth Action Coalition will host Paxeducare, Inc. for an Advanced Help Increase the Peace Program. Partnering with Pax Educare, HIPP teaches young people the skills for addressing and transforming conflict, violence, and injustice in their lives.  The training introduces alternatives to violence and bullying and allows participants to practice various options by modeling and role-playing.  Youth who participate learn to become empowered to seek solutions to the problems that confront them, both in their everyday lives and in the larger world.

Advanced HIPP will build on the skills presented in the Basic workshop and focus on delving deeper into conflict resolution theory and practice, and engaging participants in continued leadership development.  Using consensus decision-making, participants will move through a process of bringing forth their own ideas and opinion, looking for common ground with other participants, and moving towards action.

• Is dynamic, interactive and fun! Experience first, discussion second.

• Builds self-esteem, confidence to resist peer pressure and impulse control.

• Gives positive strategies to deal with conflict.

• Develops creative problem solving with practice and role-plays.

• Demonstrates that violence is not the answer.

• Helps people make a difference in their lives and their communities.

Advanced HIPP is open to all Camp ANYTOWN alumni.  Space is limited and priority will be given to people who participated in the Basic HIPP program YAC hosted last year.  Please contact Muneer Panjwani to RSVP at mpanjwani@nccjctwma.org or by calling 860-683-1039 ext 102.

Log onto www.paxeducare.org for more information about HIPP.

February 6, 2010

Music and Dance of Africa and the

Caribbean with Sankofa Kuumba

Dates: Saturday, February 6, 2010

Time:   2:00PM – 3:00 PM

Location: Windsor Historical Society

              96 Palisado Avenue,

              Windsor, CT 06095

Fee: Cost for the program is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and $4 for WHS, WCOR, and NCCJ members.  Program fees offset program costs but noone will be turned away for lack of funds.

Experience the richness and astonishing beauty of African culture through dance, music, storytelling, and art which has flowed from Africa toward the Caribbean and the United States for centuries. Costumed musicians and performers from Hartford’s Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium will take audience members on a journey through the African Diaspora, starting in Africa to honor the ancestors who came from there.

Sankofa Kuumba’s program is designed to draw audience members of different backgrounds closer together, one reason that Windsor Conversations on Race (WCOR)  and the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) are community partners for this performance. 

http://www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org/sankofa_kuumba_10.html

http://www.sankofakuumba.org/

February 26, 2010

YAC Event

VDay "The Vagina Monologues"

Date: Friday, February 26th at 7:30pm

Time: 7:30pm-10:30pm

Location: UMASS Amherst Bowker Auditorium

Open to the public and wheelchair accessible

Admission is $5.00 for students

Please RSVP through Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=308403409591

March 14, 2010

The Interfaith Council of WMA is proud to sponsor the

Interfaith House of Worship Tour 2010

Time: 12:15pm - 4:30pm

12:15pm - Registration at Host Site/(lunch provided)

                The Islamic Society of WM

                377 Amsontown Road, West Spfld

2:10pm -   Board bus and travel to:

                St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral

                22 St. George Road, Spfld

3:10pm -   Board bus and travel to:

                Temple Beth El

                (light snack provided)

4:15pm -   Board bus back to Islamic Center of WMA

Lunch and transportation are provided at no cost to participants.  We strongly encourage all participants to ride the bus provided for both convenience as well as fellowship.

Registration deadline is Sunday, March 7

Please call to ensure space and transportation: 860-683-1039

March 17, 24, 31

April 7, 14 2010

Healthy Food Access - Five dinners and discussions on access and availability of healthy foods in Springfield.

Time:  5:30-8pm Wednesdays starting March 17, 2010

Location: Martin Luther King Family Life Center

           365 Bay Street

           Springfield, MA 01109

Please join us for 5 evenings of good food and great conversation. The weekly events are free and open to the public.

Childcare will be provided, space is limited.

Register by March 12 to:

Zaida Govan zgovan.mlkcc@verizon.net or 413-739-4901 x128

Click on photo link to view Katrina Browne's "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North" trailer...

March 31, 2010

WNEC Screening

Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Time: 6pm-8pm* with filmmaker Katrina Browne

Location: Western New England College

              Rivers Auditorium

              1215 Wilbraham Road

              Springfield, MA 01119

Event Details: Screening and discussion of the film

STCC Screening:

Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Time: 2 screenings - 10am-2pm, 2pm-4pm

Location: Springfield Technical Community College

              Scibelli Hall Theater

              1 Armory Square

              Springfield, MA 01102

Event Details: Screening and discussion of the film

Open Registration - No RSVP necessary

Events sponsored by Western New England College, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield College & The NCCJ

April 15, 2010

2010 Connecticut Human Relations Award Banquet

2010 Honorees:  

Rabbi Donna Berman - Charter Oak Cultural Center

Daniel & Alice Ferraina - The Ferraina Company, LLC

James C. Smith - Webster Financial Group

Ronald A. Williams - Aetna, Inc.

Time: Cocktail Reception   6:00 pm

         Dinner and Program 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Hartford Hilton Hotel,

           Trumbull Street, Hartford

Tickets: For ticket information contact Eva Storrs:                 estorrs@nccjctwma.org

To attend the banquet, or for sponsorship information, please contact Eva Storrs at (860)683-1039 ext. 108

Click on photo link to view Katrina Browne's "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North" trailer...

May 6, 2010

Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 5pm

Time: 5pm-8pm

Location: Middlesex Community College

              Chapman Hall

              100 Training Hill Road

              Middletown, CT 06457

Event Details: 5:00 Open Registration

                     5:30 Buffet Dinner

                     6-7pm Film Screening

                     7-8pm Discussion with filmmaker Katrina Browne

Open Registration - No RSVP necessary

May 28– June 1, 2010

Interdistrict ANYTOWN

Location: Camp Jewell

              Colebrook, CT

Registration is now open for the May Interdistrict ANYTOWN.  Please submit your registration form prior to April 22, 2010 to reserve your spot at Camp ANYTOWN.

June 16 , 2010

2010 Western Massachusetts Human Relations Award Banquet

Time:  Cocktail Reception 6:00 pm

          Dinner and Program 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Chez Josef, Agawam Massachusetts

Tickets: For ticket information contact Eva Storrs:                 estorrs@nccjctwma.org

To attend the banquet, or for sponsorship information, please contact Eva Storrs at

(860)683-1039 ext. 108

June 30, 2010 

Anne Farrow - John Brown: Abolitionist

Date: Wednesday, June 30

Time: 7pm

Location: Prosser Public Library

Connecticut-born John Brown has been dead for more than 150 years, executed for treason for having tried to mount a slave insurrection in 1859, but to a modern day that is reexamining the uses of radical violence to effect social change, Brown seems more relevant than ever. Anne Farrow began studying the life of John Brown in the spring of 2003 for the 2005 book she co-authored, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery, and will present a talk on the life of Brown at Prosser in collaboration with The National Conference for Community and Justice.  Anne Farrow is a career journalist who is now an editor at the Connecticut Humanities Council. 

For more information please contact:

Prosser Public Library (860)243-9721

August 1 – 6, 2010

Regional ANYTOWN

Location: Saint Joseph College

              West Hartford, CT

Camp ANYTOWN is open to all high school students throughout Connecticut and Western Massachusetts.  Please submit your registration form prior to June 15, 2010 to reserve your spot at Camp ANYTOWN.

Any questions, please contact Muneer Panjwani at mpanjwani@nccjctwma.org

or give him a call at 860-683-1039 ext. 102

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