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Title: Rochester International Women’s Day
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 1pm
Date: March 8
End Time: 3:30pm

Images: http://www.riwd.org

Earth Tones Woman Exhibition in the LAB Space

sitting in Jamie Columbus's installation

Title: Coffee Hour with Jamie Columbus
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 12:30pm
Date: March 1
End Time: 2pm
Description: Christ Church Episcopal Celebrate Women with Photographer, Jamie Columbus in her Earth Tones Woman Installation @ RoCo

More information and Photos: http://www.riwd.org

Title: Carrotmob Planning Session
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Description: Brief planning and information sharing session. Please join us if you would like to be involved with the execution of a Carrotmob-like event in Rochester.
Start Time: 10:00am
Date: 2008-11-11
End Time: 12:00

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

Title: Green Map meeting
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2008-10-10
End Time: 12:00

Description: Urban Planning students in Adam Sokol’s class at The University of Buffalo have been working with RoCo and GEH toward the creation of a Green Map of Rochester. Using the established tools and practices of GreenMap.org the finished Green Map of Rochester will hopefully become a useful resource for Rochester’s community and a tool for comparative study between Rochester and other cities and regions around the world.
The evolving Green Map of Rochester: http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/user/837

Title: Rochester Roots - Annual Dinner
Start Time: 5:30pm
Date: 2008-09-13
Location: The Downtown United Presbyterian Church

Description: Join Rochester Roots for a dinner of delicious local food and an inspiring evening presentation. We will inform you of local progress in the development of our own urban agriculture project and our plans for the future. Guest Speaker: Bleu Cease, Director, Rochester Contemporary Art Center           http://www.rochesterroots.org/

Title: A Labor History Bike Tour     guide: Jon Garlock
a New History Tour
Date: 2008-09-14
Start Time: 3:00pm
End Time: 5:00pm
Location: departs from Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Avenue

Description: After a brief orientation the tour will leave RoCo at 3 pm and visit downtown sites celebrating the history of Rochester’s workers — their jobs, their issues, and their unions. Stops include the convention center,where famous orators spoke; the aqueduct, which launched the city’s economy;the first labor lyceum site; the centers of grain milling and the production of cigarettes, clothing, shoes and cameras; the headquarters of the central labor bodies; the sites of the union-run Labor Chest, an anti-chain store campaign, the first demonstration of the 1946 General Strike, and more. The tour will conclude with Q&A at RoCo with Jon Garlock, co-author of the Rochester Labor History Map/Guide, and All these Years of Effort, free copies of which will be available.

Photos from other past New History Tours

Title: PARK(ing) Day

Date: 2008-09-19
Start Time: 08:00am
End Time: 10:00pm
Location: Rochester Contemporary Art Center (137 East Ave), George Eastman House (900 East Ave), City Hall (Fitzhugh St.) Art Walk (University Ave) and elsewhere.

Description: PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks. National Park(ing) Day is a fun way to advocate for green space in cities by creating temporary public parks in public parking spaces. National Park(ing) Day was Friday, September 19, 2008.

PARK(ing) Day Links:
www.parkingday.org/
http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parkingday/
parkingdayla.com/
The Trust for Public Land - PARK(ing) Day
www.rochestercontemporary.org/parkingday.html