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Revive Event to Benefit Exploited Women in Chattanooga Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Sanctuary, a non-profit serving homeless women in Chattanooga with a history of substance abuse, prostitution, and incarceration, will be hosting a benefit on Saturday, September 27. The event, “Revive”, will be hosted at The Mill and will feature a silent art auction including the work of local artists.
All proceeds from the event will benefit The Sanctuary’s residential program, which finds safe housing for women who suffer from addiction, exploitation, homelessness and incarceration. The organization provides residents with a supportive community, job training, educational opportunities, and treatment to support recovery from addictive substances and behaviors.
To learn more about The Sanctuary’s programs, visit their website. To reserve tickets for the benefit, contact them directly at 423.629.3755, or again by visiting their website.
When: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 7pm to Midnight
Where: The Mill, 1601 Gulf Street
Cost: $30 prior to event $35 at doorBy Veronique Bergeron
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Main Art Show Sunday, October 5
Presented by Chuck’s
Held outdoors at Chuck’s II 27 W. Main St. (near Market St.)Proudly Sponsored by Southern Country and Silver Petunia
The Main Art Show will take place Sunday, October 5, from 1 until 5 pm. Admission is $20, and includes food and drink. In addition to the mixed media art exhibit, there will be live music, a masseuse, and a photographer at the event. Proceeds from the Main Art Show benefit Chattanooga CARES (chattanoogacares.org).
Tickets are available at Main on Mocha, Gallery 2, Chuck’s, and at Chattanooga CARES. Please contact Sarah at 423-648-9912 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.
If you are an artist interested in participating, please contact Chuck at (423) 903-5030.
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Film Screening a Vehicle For Change Thursday, September 18, 2008
Meet Darius Weems, a teenager from Athens, Georgia, who was born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), the most common fatal genetic disorder to affect children worldwide. Darius watched his beloved older brother, Mario, pass away from the same disease in 1989. Soon after, Darius lost use of the muscles in his legs and began using a wheelchair.
A group of Darius’s college-age friends felt there was no need for his quality of life to disintegrate along with his muscles. In July of 2005, this group rolled across the country with one huge goal: to reach Los Angeles and convince MTV’s popular show, “Pimp My Ride,” to customize Darius’s wheelchair. Along the way, they evaluated wheelchair accessibility at many of America’s major tourist attractions and raised DMD awareness. They found joy, they found brotherhood, and they discovered that life, even when imperfect, is always worth the ride.
Darius’ 7,000-plus mile adventure was filmed from start to finish, resulting in a documentary called “Darius Goes West: The Roll of His Life.” CreateHere will sponsor a showing of this unique, poignant documentary on September 21 at Contrapasso Dance Studio.
Additionally, DVDs of the documentary will be available for sale at the screening for a $20 donation. All proceeds will be donated to DMD research in hopes of finding treatment or a cure for this disease.
Sunday, September 21st @ Contrapasso
1800 Rossville Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37408
Showtimes: 4 PM and 7 PM
This will be a FREE family event.By Veronique Bergeron
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“Everything Will Change”: A Chance to Shape the Library’s Future Tuesday, September 16, 2008
It is easy to see a public library as a quaint vestige of a bygone era, as a reminder of the forms that community organizing and participation took in a pre-Google, pre-coffeeshop, pre-Amazon era.
It’s tough to tell when things changed, at what point libraries stopped shaping us as thinkers and learners and importantly, as artists. What is clear is that today we find public libraries around the country, Chattanooga included, lacking in up-to-date materials, underused by all levels of society. It can be purely romantic, if not unrealistic, to love a library these days, all things considered.
But shouldn’t the library have a chance to grow up, as we all have, shaped and nurtured by this community? Shouldn’t the library be able to benefit from our years, our travels, and our hopes for Chattanooga, and from the possibilities it has enabled in us?
This Thursday night, a public meeting will be held to discuss the future of libraries in Chattanooga. Organizers want to know what purposes libraries successfully serve today, and they are manifold, and in what ways they can become innovative tools in a community with increasingly sophisticated, unique needs. Everything can change, and everything will change.
Bring your ideas to the Read House, located at 827 Broad Street in Chattanooga, on September 18 at 7pm. For more information, visit everythingwillchange.org
By Veronique Bergeron
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Park(ing) Day: Turning Metered Spots into Green Spots Monday, September 15, 2008
Park(ing) Day, a global movement to promote the use of green space in urban centers, will be celebrated on September 19. The movement started in San Francisco as an opportunity for citizens, artists, and activists to collaborate and create temporary public parks out of curbside parking spaces. According to organizers, more than 70% of most cities’ outdoor space is dedicated to private vehicles. It is from this fact that the movement, now in its third year, draws its momentum.
Participants in Chattanooga can pick a parking spot in town, accepting the lawful terms of using it, namely, feeding the meter, and create a mini-park for the day. If inexpensive curbside parking promotes increased traffic and wasteful fuel use in the downtown area, curbside parks promote revitalized, green street-scapes. Fountains, pools, public beds, and hanging gardens have found ways into Park(ing) spots in the past, as well as park-benches and full-sized trees.
CreateHere will host a Park(ing) spot outside our Main Street location from 10 am to 2 pm. Local companies have also committed to create metered green spaces downtown and on the North shore.
For information and ideas for your Park(ing) spot, visit parkingday.org or check out the Trust for Public Land’s website.
By Veronique Bergeron
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