Information on Occupy Asheville late breaking events: http://occupyasheville.org/
11/15/11 MUSLIM AWARENESS PROJECT AT WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
“Faces of Islam Part II” Visiting Guests: Muslim Students Association, UNC-Asheville. 5:45 p.m. Mierke Dining Room /Gladfelter. For questions, email: spirituallife@warren-wilson.
11/16/11 FILM BENEFIT FOR WNC AIDS PROJECT
On November 16th we will screen the film “LIFE ABOVE ALL” as a benefit for The WNC Aids Project. Go to www.fineartstheatre.com for all the details. WNCAP Executive Director, Jeff Bachar, said, “This film illustrates that bias and stigma associated with HIV/AIDS are felt all over the world. WNCAP is actively engaged in addressing these same issues right here in western North Carolina.” The event is sponsored in part by Carol and Bob Deutsch. Life Above All will be shown at The Fine Arts Theater in Asheville on November 16, 2011 at 7pm. Tickets are $10 or pay what you can and will be available at the door. For more information call: (828) 252-7489.
11/17/11 ASHEVILLECONNECTS
AshevilleConnects - A meeting series to support your current project or passion by tapping existing community resources. Time is from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Location is 34 Wall Street in the Self Help Building, 3rd floor conference room (building entrance is 2 doors to the left of Laughing Seed restaurant). Cost: $15.00 Mail a check made out to AshevilleConnects to: 34 Wall St., Suite 401, Asheville, NC 28801. RSVP by Tuesday, Nov. 15th by using the RSVP tab on the website: http://ashevilleconnects.
11/18/11 to 11/20/11 SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH IN FT. BENNING
http://www.soaw.org/
11/18/11 FOOD POLICY COUNCIL FOR ASHEVILLE
The follow-up to the October 21st convening: this is a participatory, action-oriented forum for identifying and addressing barriers to food security in our community. Please join us to continue the work of crafting community-wide policy to create a more just, abundant, and food-secure future for Asheville and Buncombe County. Time is 4 to 6 PM and the location is Wilma Sherrill Center at UNCA. More info: http://www.mountainx.com/
11/20/11 ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE
“Mirror Neurons and Empathy: Why People are Good With or Without God” will be presented by James R. Tobin, MD at the Sunday, November 20th meeting of the Ethical Society of Asheville, 2:00-3:30 PM, held at the YMI Cultural Center, in the Old Drugstore at the corner of Eagle and Market Streets. Tobin is a retired pediatrician and statistician who has lived in Asheville since 2003 and is a member of and the treasurer of the board of the Ethical Society of Asheville. His talk will cover non-self-centered compassionate behavior and its connection to empathy. He will introduce mirror neurons, the newly discovered neurophysiologic underpinning of empathy and discuss the presence of empathy at birth and how it can be reinforced or diminished by environmental factors and the implications of this to how we raise our children and how we live our own lives. For more information contact: Asheville@aeu.org, www.aeu.org, ethicalsocietyasheville@gmail.
11/29/11 MUSLIM AWARENESS PROJECT AT WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
“Representations of Muslim Women in Jordan and Indonesia: Diversity and Contradiction”. Visiting Guest: Dr. Siti Kusujiarti, a native of Indonesia and a professor of Sociology, Warren Wilson College,
returning from a summer research project in Jordan. 5:45 p.m. Mierke Dining Room /Gladfelter. For questions, email: spirituallife@warren-wilson.
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ONGOING EVENTS
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 5:30 to 6 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 4:30 PM at Pack Square, Vance Monument
WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood Country Courthouse in Waynesville.
Asheville Cop Watch meeting at 5 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square (Ash.) on the first Friday of the month.
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the Old Courthouse in Hendersonville
SATURDAY
Transylvanians for Peace and WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility have a weekly vigil at noon in front of the courthouse in Brevard.
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SUNDAY
Episcopal Peace Fellowship holds a weekly vigil from 5:30 to 6 PM at All Soul's Cathedral.
TUESDAY
Veterans for Peace have a weekly vigil at 4:30 PM at Pack Square, Vance Monument
WEDNESDAY
Haywood Peace Vigilers have a weekly vigil at 4 PM at Haywood Country Courthouse in Waynesville.
Asheville Cop Watch meeting at 5 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
THURSDAY
Asheville Homeless Network meeting at 2 PM at Firestorm Cafe.
FRIDAY
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at 5 PM at Pack Square (Ash.) on the first Friday of the month.
Women in Black have a weekly vigil at noon at the Old Courthouse in Hendersonville
SATURDAY
Transylvanians for Peace and WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility have a weekly vigil at noon in front of the courthouse in Brevard.
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