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“Revolution for Peace” Benefit for Ukraine

EVOLUTION FOR PEACE – artists • musicians • artisans BENEFIT FOR UKRAINE
SATURDAY, April 16th • 6:00pm to 12:00am | Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center • 562 Genesee Street • presented by Revolution Gallery
Tickets are $30. General Admission / $15. for students / sliding donation for those 12 and under / and sliding donation for those who wish to donate, yet unable to attend.
Tickets are available at https://revolutionartgallery.com/revolution-for-peace/
Join us in the 2nd floor Great Hall, as our artistic community combines our creative forces for an evening of Art and Music. Proceeds provide emergency and humanitarian aid for war victims in Ukraine.
Six bands, DJ sets, our Misfit Market pop-up, live drawing by artists, silent art auction… all to support those in need.
A silent art auction will take place with artwork by local, national, and international artists who exhibit with Revolution Gallery. Participating artists are Emmett Baggett, Ally Burke, Thea Duskin, Frank Forte, Chris Galley ,Anastasiya Gutnik, Ed Hallborg, Felice Koenig, Sonja Llamas Baños, Craig LaRotonda, MJ Myers, Michael Mararian, Jon McNair, Michele Melcher, Maria Pabico LaRotonda, Charlie Powell, Arabella Proffer, Daryl Reding, Paris Roselli, Erin Ruffino, Kathryn Streeter, Jeannine Swallow, Julia Williamson… and more!
Live music performances by Irving Klaws, The Isolators, Monkey Wrench, Personal Style, Soul Butchers, and Velvet Bethany (order of performance to be announced), and DJ sets by Dr Wisz.
Live drawing / painting by artists Tricia Butski and Patrick Foran
Revolution Gallery’s pop-up Misfits Market will have our regular vendors, and a few new ones! Art After Death, Gutter Pop Comics, Jeanine Swallow, J Savage Goods, Maddox Stewart, Nickel City Alchemy, The Smell of Fear Candle Co., Twiggy… and more!
Many thanks to all the bands and the artists who are donating their time and talent. We love when you perform or exhibit in our gallery, and are deeply grateful for your involvement with this event.
This event is open to all ages. Valid ID required for those 21 and over, and stamps and wristbands will be provided to purchase alcoholic drinks.

Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center was founded by Ukrainian emigrants that had been displaced from their homeland by WWII.

Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1152348685579097

Averting Climate Catastrophe: No New Arms Race!

Every year on April 22nd, people celebrate and honor Earth Day through neighborhood clean-ups, community festivals, and projects to educate the public about the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Veterans For Peace has honored Earth Day by discussing how militarism impacts the environment. We hope to spread the message about the environmental costs of war, a topic that isn’t often discussed when leaders debate climate change and enact environmental policies. Instead of working for a cleaner, cooler future, our tax dollars are being spent on human death and environmental destruction.

Following an introductory presentation showing the links between militarism and climate change, a panel of experts will discuss how to proceed in uniting the peace and climate movements to avoid increasing militarism and worsening the climate crisis.

Moderator: Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK

Panelists:
• Ann Wright, author, activist, retired U.S. Army Colonel and U.S. State Department official
• Dr. David Vine, Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University and author of The United States of War
• Erik Edstrom, Afghanistan war veteran and author of UN-AMERICAN: A soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War

Presented by the Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis & Militarism Project: CCMP warns that an arms race resulting from the invasion of Ukraine will hinder efforts of major polluting countries to lower their CO2 emissions and will doom any meaningful international agreements later this year at COP27. In other words, we are no longer “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe,” we are running.