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MIDWEST CLUSTER BOMB TOUR,
SUNDAY, OCT. 12, 7PM
NORTHWOOD HIGH BLDG. RM. 100
2231 NORTH HIGH ST, COLUMBUS (2 blocks north of Lane Ave. parking in rear)
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Events Series - Nonstop Presents!
Organized by the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute
Yellow Springs, Ohio

Free Screening: Building Bombs (1991)
Wednesday, October 8, 7:00 p.m. - Presbyterian Church, 314 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Nominated for an Academy Award, the documentary Building Bombs explores lives and sentiments in the South Carolina community of Aiken, epicenter of U.S. plutonium processing and the production of the atomic bomb. With the help of rare archival footage and interviews, Directors Mark Mori and Susan Robinson show the impact of the Savannah Power Plant on the workers, the environment, and the local community living in the shadow of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The event is free and open to the public as part of the course Media and the Atomic Era at the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute in Yellow Springs. For more information please visit nonstopinstitute.org or call 937-319-6086.

Free screening: The Disappointment (2007)
Friday, October 10, 7:00 p.m. - Methodist Church, 202 S. Winter St., Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Yellow Springs media artist Brian Springer will screen The Disappointment (2007), a documentary about buried treasure, an anarchist farm wife's lost diaries, and "an all-American story about napalm, spirit possession, Korea, Vietnam, American Indian massacres, early American opera...and the way mothers try to protect their families from wounds that never heal..." The screening is part of the events series Nonstop Presents!, organized by the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute in Yellow Springs and is free and open to the public. For more information please visit nonstopinstitute.org or call 937-319-6086.

Naysan McIlhargey�Ceramic Immersion Workshop (4)
Saturday, October 11, 1:00 p.m. - Miami Valley Pottery, 145 E. Hyde Rd., Yellow Springs, Ohio.
This workshop, offered by the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute in Yellow Springs, will continue its focus on ceramic art history. Future workshops will also include studio demonstrations, and a consideration of ceramics as an entrepreneurial venture. For more information on registration, please call 937-319-6086 or visit nonstopinstitute.org.

Free screening: White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)
Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 p.m. - Presbyterian Church, 314 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Stephen Okazaki's documentary White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, explores the events of August 6 and 9, 1945 that changed the world, through the memories and testimonies of those who witnessed and survived it. First-hand accounts, from fourteen 'Hibakusha', survivors of the August 6 atomic bombings, intersect with rare archival footage and interviews of Americans intimately involved in the bombings. The screening is free and open to the public, as part of the course Media and the Atomic Era at the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute, in Yellow Springs. For more information please visit nonstopinstitute.org or call 937-319-6086.

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Contact: Kim-Jenna Jurriaans or Joan Meadows
Phone: 937-319-6086
Email: Presents@nonstopinstitute.org
Website Affiliation: www.nonstopinstitute.org

Potluck/Speakers on Iraq on Friday, Oct. 17

Ohio Speak For Peace Tour 2008
US Veterans and Iraqis Creating The Way Forward

Join us to hear from Iraqi, Raed Jarrar, and Iraq War veteran, Eugene Cherry, as they tell stories of war that we seldom hear and ways that we can bring an end to the suffering.

Friday, October 17th
Potluck meal and Speakers
Meal 6:00-7:00pm
Speakers at 7:00pm
Mack Memorial Church of the Brethren
1717 Salem Avenue
Dayton, OH 45406

The Speak for Peace Tour will communicate a side of the Iraq War that is seldom shown or heard about in the mainstream media, namely the displacement of Iraqi citizens, the experiences of Iraqis and US soldiers exposed to continual violence, and the prospects for a peaceful future in Iraq. Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee.

For more information, contact Barb Roberts at the AFSC, 937-278-4225 or by email at broberts@afsc.org .
About the speakers:

Raed Jarrar

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Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi political analyst currently based in Washington, DC. A professional architect, Jarrar obtained his first degree from the University of Baghdad in 2000. Jarrar continued postgraduate studies at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan where he researched community-based post-war reconstruction in Iraq. After a few days [after] the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, he became the country director for the only door-to-door casualty survey group in post-war Iraq. He then established a grassroots organization that coordinated with political leadership and civil society throughout Iraq in order to rebuild Iraqi civil society and physical infrastructure, implementing hundreds of community-based projects with minimal funding.

In 2005, Jarrar moved to California and has continued to contribute to a series of Iraq-related projects. On the environment, he worked as consultant and translator for UNEP-Japan to preserve Iraqi marshlands. Then he worked as political analyst and interpreter for an UNDP-Iraq-sponsored conference in South Africa on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where he cultivated strong relationships with numerous leaders across the Iraqi political and religious spectrums.

In early 2007, Jarrar became the Iraq consultant for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Washington, DC. He endeavors to advance discourse between Iraqi leaders and members of the U.S. Congress. To that end, he has organized a series of meetings between U.S. and Iraqi officials and helped facilitate the publication of a number of op-eds by Iraqi leaders in prominent U.S. newspapers.

The 18th Annual Wilmington College Westheimer Peace Symposium will be held Wednesday, October 22. "Faith as a Tool for a Nonviolent World"
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QUAKER HERITAGE CENTER, WILIMINGTON COLLEGE
Wilmington College, Pyle Center 1182, 1870 Quaker Way, Wilmington, Ohio
937-382-6661 ext.719 webpage

THE WILMINGTON COLLEGE PEACE RESOURCE CENTER is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibit, "Stories of Hope".
The exhibit celebrates Barbara Reynolds, Sadako Sasaki, The Hiroshima Maidens, and Dr. Takashi Nagai, whose stories give hope to people around the world.
Ribbon Cutting, Guest Speakers, Exhibit Opening, Reception at 51 College St., Wilmington, OH.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 7:30pm
937-382-6661 webpage

Workshop Announcement

Internationally renowned Developmental Psychologist Robert Kegan, Ph.D. is leading a workshop on 'Making Sense of Conflict: Leadership in Complex Times'.

This workshop encourages a turn inward through a new perspective on the evolution of making meaning, and an understanding of how the ways we make sense of conflict can change the ways we resolve it. It is intended to help workshop participants raise their leadership understanding to new levels of perspective-taking.

When: November 12 through 14, 2008

Where: Antioch University McGregor, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Cost: $875

More information is available at:

http://mcgregor.edu/cr or 937-769-1816

This web page is dedicated to non-museum events happening in the Miami Valley region and Ohio that might be of interest to our visitors.

This web page is dedicated to non-museum events
happening in the Miami Valley region and Ohio
that might be of interest to our visitors.