From email announcement:
Hello all
OHNA will be meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 27th, at 7 pm, at St. Andrew’s (In either the Parish House or the Little Chapel. Need to find out.).
And on Wednesday, June 28th, Mayor Levar Stoney, will be holding the 5th District Community Community Meeting at the Randolph Community center at 1415 Grayland Avenue.
Thanks
Jennifer
The artist Nils was working on a new mural on the side of the Pine Street Barber Shop this morning.
Neighborhood restaurant 821 Cafe was present and serving at today’s Vegetarian Festival.
By Larry Levis, From Poetry Magazine
One thing easy to love about Richmond is its rich, independent, literary life. There is a wide spectrum, from this neighborhood and all over, well-known and not so-well-known.
Tomorrow, help celebrate that at the Main Richmond Public Library downtown for Urban Lit Fest ’17. The Richmond Public Library will be hosting their second annual celebration of Richmond’s independent authors.
Meet 50 authors, find the latest, greatest locally grown urban fiction, poetry, and memoir. Enjoy readings, discussions, and find out how to “make it” as a self-published author.
Workshop Schedule:
http://4la.co/1CKXF4
10:30 Live Streaming Strategies for Authors
11:30 Self-Love and Walking in Your Purpose
12:30-1:00 Panel Discussion
1:00 Books are a Business
2:00 How to Turn Your Book into a Best Seller
3:00 The Poet Tree Workshop
4:00 What is Urban Fiction?
4:00 Introduction to Self-EWorkshops are free and open to the public. Registration not required but space is limited.
While some Richmonders discuss how to deal wth the past, others are acting on its future.
The Richmond Crusade for Voters (a historic black civil rights group) gathered over 6,000 signatures on primary election day, which may be a new record for petitioning on one day! The signatures are for www.PutSchoolsFirst.org, a petition for a future voter referendum to make school modernization first priority in the City budget planning. It’s important to note that this is revenue-neutral and allows for proper adjustment with City Council’s input. For the petition language, please visit the website.
In addition, The Sierra Club Falls of the James, an (almost all white) environmental group, is supporting the www.putschoolsfirst.org petition/referendum campaign, adding that school modernization should include green building and solar energy (other Virginia localities like Charlottesville and Arlington are doing it, why not Richmond?).
Despite some of the projections in the local corporate media, this school modernization effort is not ‘against’ anyone, not Mayor Stoney, not his ‘Education Compact’. It is neutral other than stating that the status quo is unacceptable.
It’s worth noting the grassroots aspect of this and it comes after many previous grassroots movements, including from Oregon Hill’s Open High School.
Right now, the Richmond Crusade for Voters is reaching out to black churches across the City, and the Sierra Club is reaching out to like minded environmental organizations. Hopefully more progressive groups will reach across racial lines and join this very important school modernization effort. To paraphrase Dr. King again, If not now, when?
Community Movie Night
June 23 @ dusk
Pleasants Park
Free refreshments served: grilled hot dogs, chips, sides, and dessert
From post:
This week is the 1st anniversary of the launch of Small Richmond, a collection of 16 independent online new sites covering the city.
It’s nothing fancy, but we think it’s a great way to get your most local of news.
Check out the site for your daily feed, and follow Small Richmond on Twitter and Facebook.
Contact John Murden at murden@gmail.com or (804)564-1360 to suggest a site for inclusion, if you would like to set up a community blog for your area, or for more information.
Reminder: The reason why this community news site was hastily started back in 2007 (with John Murden’s help) was in response to slanted coverage in the local corporate media about VCU encroachment in Oregon Hill and to make sure neighborhood leaders had a platform to respond.
Yesterday was World Refugee Day. Pine Street Baptist Church‘s children invite you to a bake sale for Syrian children living in refugee camps. The sale will be Sunday, June 25 from 2-4 pm at the overlook.