Resource Center for Nonviolence

Title: Resource Center for Nonviolence staff person Anita Heckman presents Art Exhibit at County Government Center
Location: County Government Center 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz
Description: Art Exhibit at County Government Center
701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., 1st & 5th Floors

Show Dates: February 2, 2010 – March 31, 2010
Reception: March 5, 2010, 5 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – A venue in the First Friday Art Tour

Anita Heckman, Fifth Floor – “Entwined:” an exhibit of monotypes and paintings featuring birds and nature imagery combined into rich tapestries of colorful patterns.

The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County presents a new Art Exhibition at the Santa Cruz County Government Center opening April 2, 2010 and running until March 31, 2010. Exhibiting artists include: Anita Heckman-5th Floor, Laurie Longenecker- paintings and Beth Sherman-ceramic wall sculptures- 1st Floor, Nora Sarkissian-ceramic sculptures, , and Leon Canerot-photographs- 5th Floor.

Date:  Thursday, March 4

Title: Jeff Halper speaks on “Israel and Palestine Hurtling Towards Apartheid”
Location: Mill Gallery, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz
Description: 12:00 noon- Brown Bag Lunch.

Part of  “Israel Apartheid Week”

Jeff Halper is founder and coordinator of the Israeli nonprofit human rights and occupation organization, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. He immigrated to Israel from the USA more than three and a half years ago. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has been arrested numerous times for civil disobedience against the destruction of Palestinian homes by Israeli authorities. Most recently, Halper was arrested for joining the \”Free Gaza\” direct action sending boats into the besieged Gaza Strip to break the killing blockade that has created a humanitarian crisis. Halper\’s books \”Obstacles to Peace\” and \”An Israeli in Palestine\” and his publications about Israel\’s \”matrix of control\” are among the most cogent and penetrating analyses of the various means by which Israel has extended control over Palestinian land, resources and lives under the guise of security and how these actions have destroyed the possibility of a \”Two State Solution\” and brought Israel and Palestine to the brink of apartheid. www.icahd.org.

At a house meeting setting in Felton. Please RSVP and for directions: 831-423-1626×107 or kenncruz[at]pacbell.net

Peter Klotz-Chamberlin, Dorah Rosen, Carol Fuller, Tim Zorach, and Scott Kennedy will give impressions and reflections from their recent delegation to Palestine and Israel.

They had intentional conversations with more than 75 people in East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Sderot, Jenin, Daheisheh Refugee Camp, Bi’Lin.  Call Peter at 426-9523 for more information.

At: the home of Marilyn Robertson 6259 Gushee Street, Felton. To RSVP: 831-335-9553.

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John McCutcheon: two Santa Cruz Evening Concerts- Friday evening and Saturday morning Children/Family Concert 

Friday, January 22, 7:30p.m.,   and a Family/Children’s Concert- Saturday, January 23, 10:00a.m. Both concerts at: First Congregational Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz

For reservations, call 831-423-1626. If you call in advance you will receive the advance ticket price. Please be specific about which concert and how many tickets you want.

Tickets: Friday, January 22: $16-25 sliding scale in advance; $18-25 at the door. Saturday, January 23 Children/Family concert: $8-15 in advance, $10-15 at the door.

Tickets available NOW at Streetlight Records, 939 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz. Tickets available at RCNV starting Tuesday, December 15 (RCNV will be closed from Dec. 18-January 4, but you can still call for reservations during that time).

John McCutcheon
is folk music\’s renaissance man — 
master instrumentalist, powerful 
singer-songwriter, storyteller, activist, and author… His songs sing of the nation’s heritage. His words channel the conscience of our people into streams of poetry and melody. He writes about subjects small and great, from a child’s haircut to freedom and human dignity – issues equally eternal and enduring. Think of McCutcheon as an incarnation of Pete Seeger and Mr. Rogers, Will Rogers and Bruce Springsteen, and above all Everyman, righteously passionate and impishly playful, blessed with gifts as a songwriter, historian, musician and storyteller that have won him praise in Australia as “the most overwhelming folk performer in the English language,” from a Russian critic as “the most versatile and compelling performer this reviewer has ever seen,” and from Johnny Cash as “the most impressive instrumentalist I’ve ever heard.” John has been cited as “the perfect example of the modern folk musician” by Sing Out! magazine, lauded by Utne Reader for conveying “his message about the amazing endurance of what’s best in American culture.”

Add to that the 31 albums in his catalog, and the six Grammy nominations and multiple Parent’s Choice and American Library Association awards they’ve won, stir in the diverse and growing following that has flocked to his shows; McCutcheon is as timeless as tradition, as immediate as tomorrow’s headlines, and as vital as any artist who seeks to enlighten as well as entertain.

Location: 404 King St.
Description: Reading & Discussion Group on the Life and Work of Martin Luther King, Jr. led by Scott Kennedy

Thursday Evenings, January 14, 21, 28 and February 4
7:30 – 9:00 p.m.
404 King Street, Santa Cruz (near Walnut Avenue)

$5-$10 sliding-scale suggested donation each week / $20-$50 for the series. No one turned away for lack of funds. Preregistration requested 831 423-1626 but not required.