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Visit our
new website!
www.gandhiinstitute.org
Restorative Rochester
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, April 19
@ 7:00-9:00pm
929 South Plymouth
Rochester, NY
How to Start a Revolution
Wednesday, Apr 25, 2012
7:30pm
Friends Meeting House
84 Scio St
Rochester, NY
Talk by nonviolence expert Dr. Robert Holmes before film, followed by discussion. Learn more about Gene Sharp and strategic nonviolence by visiting: How to Start a Revolution
Partners In Restorative Initiatives (PIRI)
Community Conference Training
Thurs -Fri April 26 -27th, 2012
8:00-4:00 PM
Rochester, NY
Registration for Community Conference Training
Introduction
to Nonviolence
First training at the new
Gandhi House!
Saturday, April 28, 2012
10:00-4:30pm
929 South Plymouth
Rochester, NY
Donations gratefully accepted.
These workshops will introduce participants to the principles and practices of nonviolence through a variety of experiential activities.
- Learn about the power of Ahimsa
- Practice meditation
- Learn about the history of nonviolence
- Develop personal strategies to become more nonviolent
- Critically look at unjust systems in order to construct better ones
Register quickly because there is LIMITED SPACE!
Contact:annakristina.pfeifer@googlemail.com
Gandhi House
Work Party!
Sunday, April 29, 2012
1:00-5:00pm
929 S. Plymouth Ave
Email: kmiller@admin.rochester.edu
Do you want to get a deeper understanding of Gandhi's philosophy, his biography and thinkers who influenced him? Would you like to experiment with translating his work into the context we are in and envision how his work can inspire and guide us today in our communities?
A 'Gandhi Study Group' will start in the first week of May to support each other in deepening our understanding and knowledge about Mohandas Gandhi and explore together how this relates to our lives today. This is not a course but a peer-led group.
We will read one chapter or text per week and discuss it when we meet. We anticipate a minimum of 3 hours of preparation time each week. Additionally, we encourage everyone to pick one topic or book that you would like to become a specialist in and present it to the group in one of our sessions.
The group will run for 8 weeks on a Tuesday night from 7-9 pm at the new Gandhi house on 929 Plymouth Avenue South. There will be tea and coffee available.
To register please call Anna at 585-463-3266 or e-mail her
annakristina.pfeifer@gmail.com
MARK YOUR CALENDARS IN MAY
FILM SCREENING & PANEL
Education Under Fire
May 1, 2012
UR Interfaith Chapel
7:00pm
Restorative Circle
Training
Learn together about
compassionate responses to
conflict in our communities in this 2-day training with international NVC trainer and Gandhi Institute Board member
Duke Duchscher
May 5: 9am - 5pm & May 6: 10am - 5pm
This special training is based on donations (suggested $100-200) and there is a $15 registration fee.
*Due to limited space for this workshop we request that you register by 5pm on May 2, 2012
Thank you sponsors!
The 2012 Rochester Season for Nonviolence could not have happened without you!
2012 SNV Steering Committee:
- ArtPeace
- Center for Dispute Settlement
- Center for Youth
- Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County
- Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Black Student Caucus
- Education for Peace
- M.K. Gandhi Institute
- Monroe County Health Department
- Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
- RIT
- Rochester Ad Council
- Rochester Center for Community Leadership, University of Rochester
- Rochester Friends Meeting
- Teen Empowerment
2012 SNV Fiscal Sponsors:
Truth Practitioner $1500 and above
- MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
- Ad Council of Rochester
- Rochester Institute of Technology
Keeper of the Flame $1000 and above
- University of Rochester Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
- University of Rochester Interfaith Chapel
- Partners in Restorative Initiatives
- First Unitarian Church of Rochester
Season Advocate $500
- Rochester Area Mennonite Fellowship
- Feminists Choosing Life of NY
Peacemaker up to $500
- Education for Peace
- Rochester Friends Meeting
- Spiritus Christi
- Sisters of Mercy of Rochester
In-Kind Sponsors
- Rochester Center for Community Leadership
- Jay Advertising
- Crazy Dog T-shirts
- Grant Taylor Photography
- Icon Creative, Inc
- Restorative Rochester
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church
- Teen Empowerment
- Barefoot Edible Landscape and Permaculture
- Center for Dispute Settlement
- Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County
- Safe to be Smart program at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County
- Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library
- The Black Student Caucus of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
- Art Peace
- Monroe County Office of Mental Health
- Memorial Art Gallery
- Alternatives to Violence Project
- Flying Squirrel Community Space
- Jenelle Hart ( UofR graphic artist)
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M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
211 Interfaith Chapel
Box 270501
Rochester, NY 14627
p. 585-276-4962
f. 585-276-0203
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Dear Friends,
I am writing with a heart full of gratitude after the closing ceremony for the Rochester Season for Nonviolence. This past month has been very full with events of many kinds, heart to heart conversations about issues of violence and nonviolence, and more. See below for photos and some reflections.
After an 18 month process, three weeks ago we moved into our new offices at 929 S. Plymouth Ave. We have no front door yet, the downstairs isn't finished, and the outside still looks like an abandoned building. I write looking out the window, watching people pass by in cars, on bikes and on foot here in Rochester's Plymouth-Exchange (PLEX) neighborhood. It's great to be here, and it feels perfect to be working from a not yet finished place; this building is a wonderful metaphor for our work.
This comes with love,
Kit Miller
Director
*We dedicate this issue to Lawrence Richardson, one of Rochester's talented young leaders who was tragically killed last week.
YNN story on April 4 Rochester Season for Nonviolence closing ceremonies:Full Story on YNN
Congratulatio ns
Youth
Activists!
During the Season for Nonviolence youth from all over the city of Rochester attended lectures, screened films, and participated in trainings about nonviolence. On April 4, the anniversary of Dr. King's death, they were recognized at a special ceremony held in the atrium of City Hall.
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April 4, 2012
Rochester Season for Nonviolence
Closing Ceremony at City Hall
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Op and Eroc (Foundation Movement) lead trainings during the Rochester
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Seeds of Change Planted During
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SOLAR
COOKER
Picnic
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Genesee Valley Park Rochester, NY What could be simpler than harnessing the most abundant and sustainable resource that blesses our planet to prepare our food and purify our water? Yet many families in developing countries rely solely on firewood or animal dung to create heat for their meals. Retrieving an adequate supply of firewood can be a backbreaking task for anyone, especially for the women and children who walk miles to find wood for their families. Wood fires can easily become extremely dangerous on top of their already irritating smoke. Solar cooking provides a nearly perfect alternative to traditional food preparation techniques. It involves no smoke, no hassle, and no waste. Solar cookers are safe, reliable, durable, simple to use, and inexpensive. In addition, all of the poorest nations in the world also have plenty of sunshine that would be very conducive to solar cooking. According to Solar Cookers International, India is the best country in the world for solar cooking based upon the climate and the number of days of sunshine. I believe Gandhi would take advantage of such a sustainable opportunity if he were alive today. To learn more about solar cooking, please join the Gandhi Institute at its first ever Rays of Hope Solar Cooking Competition & Picnic on Sunday, April 29th from 12 PM to 2 PM in Genesee Valley Park. Build your very own solar cooker ahead of the event (visit www.solarcookers.org) and prepare a vegetarian meal during the picnic using your cooker for a chance to win cash prizes, or simply come out to enjoy the food and sunshine! Contact Faye Gura at SolarCookerPicnic@gmail.com to RSVP. 
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2012 New York
Nonviolent Communication Intensive
July 21-28, 2012
Rochester Institute of Technology
1 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
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With Trainers Kit Miller, Liv Larsson, & Roxy Manning
These trainers from within and outside the Center for Nonviolent Communication network form a team with a broad range of learning styles and areas of specialization. Collectively, they bring over 35 years of training experience.
The Gandhi Institute's own Kit Miller specializes in peace and nonviolence, intentional communities, and sustainability. Sweden's Liv Larsson is the highly regarded author of ten books on mediation and communication, including the recent, The Helping Hand. She specializes in trainings on mediation, intimate relationships and shame. NYI core trainer, Roxy Manning, specializes in leadership development, diversity and social justice.
To register for the intensive click here:
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Ret. Captain Paul K. Chappell, author of the recently released book Peaceful Revolution, held a special training for members of the 2012 Rochester Season for Nonviolence Youth Activists Movement.
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Americans Who Tell the Truth artist Robert Shetterly spent time with aspiring and seasoned artists alike at the Memorial Art Gallery's Creative Workshop.
  
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