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The Home WithinSeptember 24, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

On this episode, Hagar Hafez from the ⁠New York Immigration Coalition⁠ and Hy Carrel from ⁠Community Canvases⁠ discuss ⁠The Home Within⁠, a multilingual poetry and arts event at the Buffalo History Museum on Thursday, October 10, 6-9 p.m., to celebrate Buffalo’s rich language …

Whitman, Alabama: Screening and Discussion with Director Jennifer Chang CrandallSeptember 19, 2024, 7-9 pm

Sam Magavern, Calamus Project

Filmmaker Jennifer Chang Crandall describes Whitman, Alabama as an experiment in using documentary and poetry to reveal the threads that tie us together – as people, as states, and as a nation.

Walt Whitman's Open Road: An Introduction to Whitman and "Song of Myself"September 19, 2024, 1-2 pm

Sam Magavern, Calamus Project

Professor Karen Karbiener will offer an interactive introduction to Walt Whitman and his great poem, “Song of Myself.”

Whitman, Buffalo Film Premiere and ScreeningAugust 29, 2024, 6-9:30 pm

PPG and The Calamus Project

Please join us for this special event! The film screening will begin at 6pm and will be followed by a reception with food and refreshments from Extra Extra Pizza. The event is free and open to the public, but to attend you must RSVP, using this link, by …

Whitman, Buffalo Film Premiere and ScreeningAugust 29, 2024, 6-9:30 pm

PPG and The Calamus Project

Please join us for this special event! The film screening will begin at 6pm and will be followed by a reception with food and refreshments from Extra Extra Pizza. The event is free and open to the public, but to attend you must RSVP, using this link, by …

Song of Myself: Whitman in Buffalo and the Calamus ProjectAugust 20, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Dejia Marie James

On this special episode of The Public Good, we introduce Whitman, Buffalo a celebration of poetry and community.  Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) and the ⁠Calamus Project⁠ worked with filmmaker Steve Rosenthal to film representatives from 20 PPG partner organizations doing three …

Song of Myself: Whitman in Buffalo and the Calamus ProjectAugust 20, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Dejia Marie James

On this special episode of The Public Good, we introduce Whitman, Buffalo a celebration of poetry and community.  Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) and the ⁠Calamus Project⁠ worked with filmmaker Steve Rosenthal to film representatives from 20 PPG partner organizations doing three …

Song of Myself: Whitman in Buffalo and the Calamus ProjectAugust 20, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Dejia Marie James

On this special episode of The Public Good, we introduce Whitman, Buffalo a celebration of poetry and community.  Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) and the ⁠Calamus Project⁠ worked with filmmaker Steve Rosenthal to film representatives from 20 PPG partner organizations doing three …

Fighting Against Injustice Through Theatre with UjimaJuly 24, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Dejia Marie James

How are the creative outlets of theater and the arts a direct pathway to healing and justice for subjugated populations?  On this summer High Road series episode, our guests, Gabriella McKinley and High Road Fellow Daniela Gloster from ⁠Ujima Company Inc⁠., will discuss the salient and …

Fighting Against Injustice Through Theatre with UjimaJuly 24, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Dejia Marie James

How are the creative outlets of theater and the arts a direct pathway to healing and justice for subjugated populations?  On this summer High Road series episode, our guests, Gabriella McKinley and High Road Fellow Daniela Gloster from ⁠Ujima Company Inc⁠., will discuss the salient and …