Monthly Archives: November 2020

Sunday Dec 6 – 7:00 pm – link belowIt’ll be something warm and lovely for the holiday. Here’s how to find your way to the cozy corner where Open Mic will be happening…REPAIRED INSTRUCTIONS FORGOOD SOUND ON ZOOM BELOWGreeting Open Mic family, What a long strange trip its been. We miss you! Hope everyone is hanging in there. There is little doubt that music is good medicine for these crazy times. Summer is coming to an end and before we know it, it will be time for Omni’s Open Mic to start back up for the first Sunday in September.  That will be Sunday, December […]

The Green New Deal – The Future We ChooseSunday Dec 6 – 1:30 pm – link belowMore details at www.omnicenter.org “Please come visit us for our monthly virtual Climate Change Forum from OMNI Center, Sunday, December 6 at 1:30. We’ll meet virtually with a Go To Meeting link that will come later. But we want you to know the topics so you can read ahead and participate. Our thoughts for the December Forum will primarily be the Green New Deal and what we can do individually and as a community on a hopefully more positive political stage.  Dick Bennett will […]

Holiday break time. Instead of only pondering struggles for peace, justice and environment, this weeks blog includes inspiration that got me through a long lonely Thanksgiving day. The Myth of the First Thanksgiving – history from the indigenous perspective The Thanksgiving Address from the Haudenosaunee tradition. Followed by an intriguing glimpse into indigenous cultural wisdom through discussion about the profound Thanksgiving Address Some Thanksgiving Miracles from Lorien Association, with art by an amazing intuitive artist Deborah Koff Chapin And Music former NWA creative Claire Detels invites you to a concert at 4:00 pm today – Friday Nov 27 . Here’s […]

 Ebook    Audio JANE FONDA, WHAT CAN I DO? (about the climate) (Because we are discussing two books and plan to leave time for discussion, the following discusses the book in general and chapters 1-3 specifically.  For the Virtual talk I will discuss the chapters on the climate problems she chose to discuss.  –Dick) “Please come visit us for our monthly virtual Climate Change Forum from OMNI Center, Sunday, December 6 at 1:30. We’ll meet virtually with the following Go To Meeting link But we want you to know the topics so you can read ahead and participate. Our thoughts for […]

Covid and the as-yet unresolved threat to democracy are still the number one issues on most of our minds. But those other threats have not vanished, and never too far away from our thoughts.  Turning some attention to some of those very important issues like the well-being of immigrants and refugees, and such. Some of which may bring you great joy. This one from Canopy NWA, for instance.https://www.canopynwa.org/blog One of the first acts Biden/Harris will take in January of 2021 is a recommitment to refugee resettlement. Such resettlement is designated each year by the executive branch. For the past few decades, the […]

We could have turned the other way, but we managed to choose this road, and the turn makes a difference.  We still don’t know what’s down here. We didn’t leave covid behind, the climate is still in collapse, the corporate state is still in charge, and the president’s followers are glumly trapped on the bus with us… and they might bring guns. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.I hope you don’t worry that we picked the wrong road… Read the whole story here: Bifurcatio ..

A piece of our heartsmoved to Omni Someday you’ll get to meet Helen Kwiatkowski, an artist and teacher new to town, who has a life-long passion for peace. While she was teaching art in Texas she started organizing Pinwheels for Peace with her own art students and from schools all around the area. When she moved here last year she started looking for people and places to replicate this project in peace-loving Fayetteville. The Pinwheels for Peace Project was installed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on East Street but needed to move out this week. Now some have moved to […]

starting at NWACC with speakerEvent on Nov. 17 Please share the following with members and constituents of Omni Center:Dr. Erika Briesacher, Associate Professor of History at Worcester State University in Massachusetts, will discuss “Threads of History: Memory, Society, and the Holocaust” as the inaugural event in the NWACC Holocaust Knowledge Awareness Project lecture series. The lecture takes place on Nov. 17 from 12-1:15 pm. To join the lecture, click on the following Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91478916953 . Briesacher will examine the role of Romania in supporting and fighting against Jewish genocide in Europe. This is part of an effort by the Division of […]