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Urban Sustainability Series: Cooking Off the Grid
Wednesday, October 1, 7:00-8:30pm
Frank Jeffers, of the Mad Housers and Eprida, will demonstrate a charcoal stove of the type distributed to homeless Atlantans by the Mad Housers. This is a a low-tech, high-functioning stove built from inexpensive, readily available materials, that runs without fossil fuels. The presentation will include the construction and use of the stove and the procedure for making your own charcoal, as well as touching on heating stoves and other uses for charcoal. The Charis Urban Sustainability Series meets on the first Wednesday of each month and is organized by volunteers and community members.
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Faiths & Feminisms Interfaith Book Circle
Monday, October 6, 7:00-8:30pm
Meeting on the first Monday of each month, this open book group seeks to deepen the dialogue between different understandings of, and commitments to, living a life in which faiths and feminisms intersect and inform our work for justice and wholeness. We discuss books that invite us to expand our hearts and minds. Facilitators are group participants of many faiths who are committed to increasing mutual enrichment and understanding. All faiths and all definitions of feminism welcome! Join us this month to discuss Living Buddha, Living Christ, by Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Grassroots Media Justice Tour
Tuesday, October 7, 7:00-8:30pm
The Grassroots Media Justice Tour is stopping in Atlanta! The tour has two primary functions; First, to get information out - to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from criminal justice organizing in Jena to sex worker activism, from resistance to imperialism in Iraq and Latin America to resistance to school privatization, from immigration rights movements to post-Katrina organizing in public housing. Second, the tour also seeks to connect communities of resistance, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media. Speakers on the tour include Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Puck Lo, Jen Angel, & Jordan Flaherty. The tour is sponsored by Left Turn, ColorLines Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Spread Magazine, Free Speech Radio News, Make/Shift, and other radical and independent media projects from around the US. Come catch up with the tour at Charis and hear what these media activists have to say!
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Exploring Genders Book Group
Wednesday, October 8, 7:00-8:30pm
This facilitated book group meets on the second Wednesday of each month to discuss books that explore gender identity and representation. Join us in October to talk about Imagining Transgender by David Valentine. The group will meet again in November to discuss That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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Nancy Floyd with She's Got a Gun
Thursday, October 9, 7:30-9:00pm
Local photographer and professor Nancy Floyd will present photographs and talk about her book, She's Got a Gun. Come hear Nancy reveal how mainstream America's perception of gun women has changed over time. During the book talk, she will give a slide show presentation of photographs from her book and her recent Atlanta exhibit, as well as new photos under the same theme.
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The Enneagram as a Tool for Peacemaking
Monday, October 13 & 27, 5:00-6:15pm
The Enneagram as Tool for Peacemaking is a conference for those seeking peace
with self, with others, and in our world.
Saturday, October 11, 9:00am-5:30pm
Sunday, October 12, 9:00am-4:30pm
Paideia School Campus, Atlanta, Georgia
International Enneagram teacher and author, Helen Palmer, will be the lead presenter in this two day conference that pairs the Enneagram Personality System with Peacemaking. Exploring the nine personality styles, their gift for and barriers to peacemaking, working with body awareness techniques and engaging in guided meditations, this event is open to all people and will be of particular interest to All who desire to live more peacefully, peace activist, therapists, counselors, life coaches, spiritual directors and clergy and mindfulness practitioners.
This conference will offer
· Dyad inquiry exploring resistance to Presence.
· Panel interviews on how the types "do" conflict and how to recognize and relax type barriers and projections.
· Guided meditations on staying Present during conflict.
· Body awareness techniques for maintaining grounded Presence.
· Small group discussions on compassionate identification with each type.
Cost is $225 if registration is received before Sept. 30 and $250 after Sept. 30.
For information call 828-684-2339 or sandracsmith@charter.net.
Co-sponsors of this event include:Atlanta WAND, Charis Circle, Mary & Martha's Place, On Purpose - Relationship Capital At Work, Whole Life Works, Pathways to Peace, Inc., Virginia DuPre-Art Therapy & Counseling, Atlanta Divorce Mediators, Inc., Mediation Training Institute, & Commonlight Meetingplace (a Quaker-based Initiative in Black Mountain, NC) |
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Young Women* Writers
Monday, October 13 & 27, 5:00-6:15pm
This group is open to all young women* writers ages 14-19. Through facilitated writing prompts and supportive critique, participants are encouraged to raise their voices and express themselves through a variety of written mediums. Writers of all skill levels and genres are encouraged to stop in and see if the group works for them. This group meets the second and fourth Mondays of every month from 5-6:15pm. Please direct inquiries to elizabeth@chariscircle.org. *Trans inclusive
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Writing with Intent
Monday, October 13 & 27, 6:30-8:30pm
This facilitated group is open to all writers of fiction and creative non-fiction who want a serious group to provide constructive criticism, motivational exercises, and interpersonal accountability to keep their writing on track. We will do monthly exercises and critiques with an eye towards individual improvement and the eventual goal of publication. Writers are encouraged to bring copies of their work to share for critique. The group meets the second Monday of each month from 7:00-8:30pm. Please direct inquiries to elizabeth@chariscircle.org
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Age-ism & Able-ism: Intersections
Wednesday, October 15, 7:00-8:30pm
Join us at Charis for the next installment of our Disability Activism Series, a community dialogue about ageism and ableism. Facilitated by Charlene Ball, the conversation will focus on the intersections between ageism and ableism, how old people and people with disabilities are often marginalized in similar ways, how other forms of oppression intersect with ageism, and some ways we can confront negative stereotypes of both age and disability and bring about change. Bring your stories and ideas to share with the group!
Please RSVP with 2 weeks advance notice for ASL interpretation.
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Cliterati Open No-Mic with Daphne Gottlieb & BLAIR
Thursday, October 16, 7:30-9:00pm
Charis & Cliterati pair up to present an inviting and fierce, openmic & reading series on the 3rd Thursday of every month. Hosted by the anarchic spoken word team of Karen G and Theresa Davis, members of the Art Amok Slam Team, this series cultivates the voices of authors, novices and an assortment of poets, songstresses and story tellers. Cliterati is 7years old and counting, open to all because ALL OPEN MOUTHS HAVE A VOICE. This month we are honored to feature performances by Daphne Gottlieb and BLAIR, who are in town for the 2nd annual Atlanta Queer Lit Fest. BLAIR is an award winning Urban Folk, Afro-Punk, Poet, Singer, Songwriter from Detroit. Daphne Gottlieb is an award winning poet and author of several books, including Kissing Dead Girls, Jokes and the Unconscious, and Why Things Burn.
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Atlanta Queer Lit Fest Poetry Performances @ Charis
Friday, October 17, 8:00-9:30pm
Charis is honored to participate in this year's Atlanta Queer Lit Fest as host to several talented writers and performers. Join us Friday night to hear the live and inspiring poetry of Lisa Allender, Alice Teeter, Reginald Jackson, and Patrique Vosges. Click here to read performer bios and here to learn more about the AQLF. |
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Akoma Book Club
Saturday, October 18, 10:30am-noon
The Akoma Book Club (of Women Healing Women) meets at Charis Books & More on the third Saturday of each month. This book club is open to any woman seeking camaraderie with like-minded women for fun, self-empowerment and growth. Even if you haven't read the book... but are willing to talk about the principles in the book, you can join us for a lively discussion. Join the group in October to discuss You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. In November the group will meet to talk about The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. read more... |
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AQLF Poetry Performances
Saturday, October 18, 8:00-9:30pm
Charis presents yet another night of AQLF fabulousness, with performances by Susan Holbrook, Megan Volpert, Amy King & Theresa Davis. If you're a fan of good poetry, talented women artists, and live performances, this is one evening you don't want to miss!
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Queer Literary Fiction Book Group
Wednesday, October 22, 7:00-8:30pm
This facilitated book group meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month at Charis to discuss books which feature queer characters/ storylines as well as a strong attention to literary craft and style. Join us this month to talk about The Used World, by Haven Kimmel. A staff favorite here at Charis, The Used World is an in-depth fictional exploration of small-town queer identity, pre-Roe v. Wade abortions, chosen family vs. blood family, and the way past, present and future collide in an Indiana landscape to tell a brilliant and beautiful story. read more... |
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Rinku Sen with The Accidental American
Thursday, October 23, 7:30-9:00pm
Fekkak Mamdouh was a headwaiter and union leader at the Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center, until the 9/11 attacks transformed him into an organizer of immigrant restaurant workers and Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY). Now he has joined with journalist and immigration expert Rinku Sen to tell the story of how he became an "Accidental American," at the same time exploring and analyzing current immigration policy in the U.S. Come meet author & journalist Rinku Sen at Charis as she talks about The Accidental American: Immigration & Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, and the journey that brought her to it.
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Reese Christian with Ghosts of Atlanta
Wednesday, October 29, 7:00-8:30pm
Reese Christian is an elite psychic medium and cold case researcher, as well as the author of Ghosts of Atlanta: Phantoms of the Phoenix City. In her book, Reese writes of the tragic past and the haunted present of Greater Atlanta. From Peachtree Street in the heart of downtown to the plantations and battlefields surrounding the city, join her at Charis for a discussion of the twisted histories of some of Atlanta's most infamous landmarks and forgotten moments.
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Author event with Lisa Leslie & Michael Lockwood
Thursday, October 30, 7:30-9:00pm
WNBA basketball star & Olympic gold medalist Lisa Leslie, author of Don't Let the Lipstick Fool You: The Making of a Champion, and her husband Michael Lockwood, author of Women Have All the Power: Too Bad They Don't Know It, as they talk about their books and take questions from fans at Charis.
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Program Notes
Charis Circle programs are funded in part by the AEC Foundation; Bill, Jennie & Harry Ackerman Foundation; Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice; Georgia Shares; and YOU! Charis Books & More co-sponsors all literary events. Our space is wheelchair accessible, and ASL interpretation is available by request with two weeks advance notice.
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL CHARIS CIRCLE PROGRAMS ARE FREE AND TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS ARE WELCOME! |
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