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Music * Raffle * House Tours * Games
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RIT Bhangra Dancers at 2011 Gandhi Birthday Celebration
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2013 Gandhi Institute
Fall Nonviolence Intensive
Oct 31-Nov 3
@ the Gandhi House
Summer 2013 Nonviolence Intensive Participants
Nonviolence can feel elusive or fantastical in today's world.
But we can experience it directly. The Intensive provided by the Gandhi Institute provided an energetic portal to another way of engaging life.
-Ben Taylor (Summer Intensive Participant)
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Gandhi Service Fellowship
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The Gandhi Service Fellowship
is a year-long program offered to high school and college students. Past projects have included:
Alternative Spring Breaks
Nonviolence Education Programs in Schools
Interfaith Banquets
Social Justice Forums
Promotion of Urban Agriculture
Solar Cooker Competition
5K Races
Request an application by contacting George Payne at gpayne2@ur.rochester.edu
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Contact Kit Miller
at 585-463-3267
Contribute $25 monthly and receive a Gandhi Institute poster
Contribute $100 monthly and receive a Gandhi t-shirt
Contribute $250 monthly and receive a limited edition Margaret Bourke- White photograph of Gandhi
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Support the Gandhi Institute by donating:
Tulip and daffodil bulbs
Copy paper
3 ft bookshelf
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Oren Lyons speaking at an anti-fracking rally in Albany
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"The environment isn't over there. The environment isn't over here. You are the environment."
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"Pianos for Peace" Concert in
the Gandhi Garden
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Going Beyond the Headlines:
Engaging Conversations, from Exploration to Expression 
November 5, 14, 21 December 5, 12, 19To register for this class contact George:
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Dear friends,
This weekend forty-three women gathered together on the shores of Canandaigua Lake to talk about race. Our ages ranged from 15 to mid-70s. We were people of color and white. All of us were committed to staying together for four days to learn how to communicate with each other about one of the most painful topics in the US. There were some successes and some frustrations. At times people wanted to leave and chose to stay. Some of us were there in the midst of extreme family difficulties and chose to prioritize building connections across race anyway. Everyone who attended wants to keep working together to do something to transform Rochester and its surrounding communities. I feel so proud that the Gandhi Institute helped to make this happen.
Please join us this weekend to meet some of these amazing people at our third annual grand opening to celebrate Gandhi's 144th birthday. We will have inspiring young speakers, music and musical performances, a raffle, tours of the completely renovated Gandhi house and cupcakes. Whether you can join us this Sunday or not, please keep reading for good news below.
This comes with love from all of us here,
Kit Miller
Director, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
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What You Say Next Can Change Your World:
a 6-week series in Nonviolent Communication
Thursdays:
Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, Nov. 7 & 14
7-9 pm
Episcopal Diocese, 935 East Ave
Rochester, NY
Co-Sponsors
Rochester Zen Center, the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, and Third Presbyterian Church
Income from this series will be used to support the Gandhi Institute. No one turned away for lack of funds.
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Week of Peace
In Honor of M.K. Gandhi's 144th Birthday*We are grateful to Tim Cosgriff and Empire State College for organizing this week of celebration and learning.
 Concert of Peace Wednesday, October 2 5:30 PM Bernunzio's Uptown Music 122 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604
Reception with Birthday Cake 5:30-6:30PM
 Hamamatsu Sister City Lecture
"Family Mediation and Peace" with Guest Lecturer
Mrs. Hiroki Washizu
Thursday, October 3
6:00 PM
Kate Gleason Auditorium, Central Library, 455 South Ave, Rochester, NY 14604
 Family Screening of Gandhi
Sunday, October 6
Reception-1pm
Movie-1:30-4:30
Rundell Auditorium,
Central Library, 115 South Ave Rochester, NY 14604
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Gandhi Distinguished
Lecture Series
Russell Faure-BracTransition to Peace:
A Defense Engineer's Search for an Alternative to WarTuesday, October 15 Gandhi House at 929 S. Plymouth 7:00-9:00PM Donations accepted
*Russell's books will be for sale.
 "Given Russell Faure-Brac's earlier career in the weapons industry, I would call this creative and insightful book 'Confessions of a Defense Engineer'." -John Perkins
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Gandhi Distinguished
Lecture Series
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Suzanne Belote Shanley
Women and War: The Lineage of Women Peacemakers
Suzanne will be speaking about heroic acts of nonviolence and will be sharing from her life experience about peacemaking. 7:00-9:00PM
Free (Donations accepted)
@ the Gandhi House
Suzanne Belote Shanley, cofounder of Agape Community, has lived in community with her husband, Brayton, and other community members since 1982, and has taught at colleges and universities about the historic role of women in peacemaking for over thirty years.
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The Dreamers are part of a growing network of young people who grew up undocumented in the U.S. and are striving to be treated as American citizens having equal access to educational and employment opportunities. Even though the Dream Act has been passed, by 2014 President Obama will have deported over 2 million people-more in six years than all people deported before 1997. The Gandhi Institute does not support this policy of fear and discrimination.
We express our solidarity with every person in this country who is treated as a second class citizen because of their race, nationality, religion, sexuality, or gender. We are committed to supporting communities where everyone can be seen and treated as equals, and where everyone can have the choice to pursue their own dreams.
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