Events

The following are events in reverse date order in which Voices for Creative Nonviolence is either a sponsor or a participant:

2018

Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Speaking Event – Kathy Kelly

In Philadelphia, PA this coming Sunday, March 18th at 3pm, Kathy Kelly will speak on the U.S.’ disastrous policy of endless war and on how we can respond. The venue is Project HOME, 1515 Fairmount Avenue, Phila., PA 19130. Kathy will be hosted by the Brandywine Peace Community, with more information at www.brandywinepeace.com, 484-574-1148, and at www.alternativeseminary.net

Bethlehem, PA
Saturday, March 17, 2018

Speaking Event – Kathy Kelly

This Saturday March 17 at 5:30pm (pre-dinner music and appetizers 5:00pm), Kathy Kelly will speak at the LEPOCO Peace Center Annual Dinner, on the topic, “Unshackling Ourselves: Lessons from War Zones.” This will be at the Wesley United Methodist Church, 2540 Center St, Bethlehem, PA 18017. The dinner will feature a vegetarian banquet, music from the LEPOCO Peace Singers, peace/justice literature and displays, and an election for the Peace Center’s steering committee. Although program-only tickets ($10/$5) will be available at the door, dinner tickets ($75/$35/$10) must be reserved in advance.  More info at 610-691-8730.

Highland Park, NJ
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Speaking Event – Kathy Kelly

In Highland Park, NJ this Thursday, March 15 from 7pm-9pm, Voices’ Kathy Kelly and the Catholic Worker Movement’s Carmen Trotta will be among those speaking in Highland Park, New Jersey in a “Forum on the Saudi-Led War on Yemen” focusing on the U.S.’ responsibility for the devastating Yemen war and the famine and cholera it exacerbates. Light refreshments at 6:30. Reformed Church of Highland Park, 19 S. 2nd Ave, Highland Park, NJ 08904. Admission free, donations gratefully accepted. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2053226444918202 Questions: Carol Gay at 732 616-1751 or email noendlesswar@gmail.com

Boston, MA
Sunday February 18, 2018

Speaking Event – Kathy Kelly

In Boston, Massachussets starting at 3pm this Sunday (2/18), Kathy Kelly will give a talk at the Community Church of Boston (565 Boylston St in the 2nd-floor wheelchair-accessible Lothrop Auditorium), with music by CommUnity Voices and refreshments to follow. Her talk will be titled “The Cost of War, the Price of Peace” and will address her experiences living with trapped and impoverished people in a working-class neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan and in U.S. prisons to which she had been sentenced for protesting the United States drone warfare program.  The Facebook event is at https://www.facebook.com/events/167490904012959 and the church is online at www.communitychurchofboston.org (info@communitychurchofboston.org). The event is located near the Orange Line – Back Bay and Green Line – Copley “T” Stops. On-Street Parking is available and discount vouchers are available for the 199 Clarendon St Back Bay Parking Garage.

Stony Point, NY
Wednesday, February 15 2018
Speaking Event – Kathy Kelly
From 7-9pm on February 15, Kathy Kelly will be speaking in Stony Point, NY (at the Stony Point Center 17 Cricketown Rd) alongside Yemeni-American activist Rabyaah Althaibani and Peace Action NY’s Kate Alexander, at a Forum on the War on Yemen.   Organizers include the Community of Living Traditions, WESPAC, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. $10 donation requested but no one turned away: a dinner from 6-7pm at the SPC kitchen will be purchasable for $10. RSVPs appreciated. Contact 845-239-3505 or ssmith@stonypointcenter.org either to RSVP or for more information.

2017

Sunday, April 23 – Saturday, April 29, 2017

Shut Down Creech!

Creech AFB
Indian Springs, NV

Friday November 11,
Kathy Kelly will speak at a Milwaukee Armistice Day event at in the City Hall rotunda.
7pm – 200 E Wells St, Milwaukee

The event is organized by Veterans for Peace. Kelly’s topic is: confronting state violence by resisting wars in the U.S. and abroad, including the war against impoverished people

 

 

Thursday November 10, 

What will you do now that the election is over?
6:30 pm – 313 DeRicci Hall, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

Longtime Washington, DC area peace activist Malachy Kilbride, Joy First, peace activist from the Madison area, and Buddy Bell, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, will discuss ways to get involved in creating a different world following the election. This election year has been very contentious, lacking in civil discourse, and many important issues have not been discussed including ongoing wars, the “upgrading” of the nuclear arsenal, the drone program, and the Pentagon budget. What is important now is to realize that we, the people, have the power to take action and make changes for a better world.

Sponsored by Edgewood College COR General Education Program, National Campaign for Peace Tax Fund, and Madison Pledge of Resistance.

 

 

Sunday October 9-Monday October 17, 

Speaking Events by Kathy Kelly

Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

 

Saturday September 24, 

Speaking Event Kathy Kelly

American University

4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016

 

 

Saturday August 27th,

Speaking Event Kathy Kelly
West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition
213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187
Contact Frankgoetz@comcast.net

 

 

Saturday July 9 @ 6:00 pm and Sunday July 10 @ 10:15 am 

Speaking Event Kathy Kelly
Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign
309 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801

Saturday May 28 – Saturday June 11, 

150-Mile Walk from Chicago to Thomson Prison

Sunday May 1 – Friday May 6
Iowa Speaking Tour, Ann Wright and Kathy Kelly
Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Des Moines–for more information, contact Ed Flaherty at 319 621 6766 or flahertyem@q.com

 

 

Thursday April 28 @ 7:00pm   
Speaking Event Kathy Kelly
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
412 North Church Street
Rockford, Illinois 61103
(815) 964-5514
Organizer: Rockford Urban Ministries, Stanley Campbell (815) 621-9417

 

 

Thursday April 21  @ 7:30 pm
Speaking Event with Kathy Kelly
Daemen College
4380 Main St, Amherst, NY 14226
At the Latin America Solidarity Committee annual dinner in affiliation with the Western NY Peace Center.
Please contact Vicki Ross  at victoryross9@gmail.com with questions

 

 

Tuesday April 5th @ 7:15
Speaking Event Kathy Kelly
DeKalb Area Interfaith Network
Lincoln Room of the Holmes Student Center at NIU

 

 

Thursday thru Sunday March 31-April 16 @ 7pm

The Tea Project Chicago on April 14  at the Tea Project  Kathy Kelly will be speaking.

 

 

 

Sunday, March 20 @ 5pm

Marking 13 years since the Shock and Awe U.S. Attack on Iraq

Uri-Eichen Gallery

2101 S. Halstead, Chicago

 

 

Saturday, January 30 – Monday, February 1

Speaking Events with Salma A. Hussein from Cairo, Egypt
  • What has been going on in Egypt since the start of the #Jan25 movement?
  • What happened to political prisoners in Egypt? Who enjoys impunity in this new system?
  • What is the role of western media and Egyptian media in the human rights crisis?
  • How does U.S. strategy in Egypt impact Palestine?

Salma A. Hussein was born, raised, and educated in Cairo, Egypt. Having a first-hand experience of events over the past 5 years has transformed Salma, an ordinary Egyptian science student, into a media producer and educator about the history and contemporary reality of the situation in her country.