Daily Archives: September 3, 2021

Sunday Sept 5 – 7:00 pmIn Person at Omni! Greeting Open Mic friends, September is already upon us and we would love to host the September open mic on the new Omni patio again. It was delightful and there is only 16% chance of rain this SUNDAY. We were planning on a BIRD theme but we have not put energy into that theme so far so it will be a grab bag of anything goes…Peace, Justice or Ecology…song, poem, performance, dance…whatever you desire. Starting at 7:00. It gets dark at 7:45 so we will bring our photo light box and a light […]

Weds Sept 8, 6:00-8:00 pm, Gary Hampton Softball Complex Pavailion, Salem Road   Washington County Quorum Court is making questionable decisions about how to spend the American Rescue Act money.This money is intended for direct housing assistance, small business assistance, job creation, infrastructure and education. Do you want this covid relief fund spent on a jail? Is that the most helpful way they can conceive of spending this resource? Apparently so.The Quorum Court needs to hear from the people!The Arkansas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition wants people to have a chance to talk to their JPs (Justices of the Peace) in […]

September 19-25Many events scheduled online or planned with safety in mindFayetteville Sept 21 – 7:00 pm – Faulkner Performing Arts Center UAShowing of the classic filmAll Quiet on the Western Front Scheduled in person with safety measures at this time with Live Accompaniment from the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra More details below Full schedule for Arkansas and more information at the Peace Week website Arkansas Peace Week webpage

Sept 21 – International Day of Peace! 7:00 pm – Faulkner Performing Arts Center, UA ADMISSION FREEA Peace Week Event Co-Sponsored by the UA Dept of Communications Film Appreciation Society and Omni Center Live Accompaniment byThe Mont Alto Motion Picture OrchestraFaulkner Performing Arts Center                                                  All Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States 1930. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute‘s first 100 Years…100 Movies list in 1997. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked […]

“Native Vines of Arkansas” with Dr. Richard Abbott Sat September 4 – 1-2pm (Central Time Zone)   Join Dr. Richard Abbott, Assistant Professor of Biology and curator of the herbarium at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, for a free webinar on the native vines of Arkansas. In this presentation, Dr. Abbott will provide an overview of the most common vine species of Arkansas, as well as provide a phylogenetic overview of these species where he’ll show how they originated in all different kinds of taxonomic groups they’re found in.   Click here to join: https://craftontull.zoom.us/j/97074207020   Just a friendly reminder that […]

Michel Awad, Siraj Center for Peace <siraj-center@lists.riseup.net> Dear Peace Friends ,  We are pleased to announce the launching of the first day of the Virtual Thruhike along the Palestinian Heritage Trail , starting from today and for 20 days, each day we will publish a new virtual video along the Palestinian heritage trail ,we invite you to subscribe to our Youtube channel to receive notifications for each new video posted to enjoy the beauty and diversity along the Palestinian Heritage Trail. https://www.youtube.com/c/PalestinianHeritageTrail/videos     We invite you to watch the first day virtual video on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMMrqNLjiM   We have been preparing to […]

One million down, two million to go.   Postcard Writers NEEDED Daily Kos <campaigns@dailykos.com> If Democrats don’t vote, we lose. It’s as simple as that. Starting now we need to get out the vote. We need your help today to keep these states blue by writing “please vote” postcards to Democratic-leaning, low-propensity voters in Virginia and New Jersey. Our goal is to write three million postcards to voters in these two states, and we are a third of the way there. Click here to order a batch of postcards from Postcards to Swing States. You will receive postcards to write handwritten […]