Typography of Women: I Am Not Invisible
Mar
21
6:00 PM18:00

Typography of Women: I Am Not Invisible

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Typography of Women: I Am Not Invisible is a project to support the fight against Human Trafficking. It promotes awareness about Project Mona’s House, which is a transitional residence for women who have escaped trafficking and are trying to rebuild their lives. It is the only such facility in Western New York. However, Typography of Women is also meant to be a vehicle that shares information on the ways we, as a community, can do our part to deter human trafficking in our region. Everyone is invited and welcome to join the fight against this crime inflicted on humanity. Tickets HERE

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DREA D'NUR IN CONCERT
Feb
7
7:00 PM19:00

DREA D'NUR IN CONCERT

Founder of the Award-Winning Spirit of Nina Simone stage production and film series, Former director of Women’s Resistance Revival Chorus, 2017 Spark Award Artist of the Year, 2019 Buffalo Spree’s Best of WNY Local Music Artist and Mother of 5. Drea d’Nur releases her first project since recording with Grammy Award Winning, The Gorillaz, in what is sure to be a soul-stirring, heart-wrenching and beautiful experience.

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Healing Session at Harriet's Apothecary
Dec
14
3:30 PM15:30

Healing Session at Harriet's Apothecary

Register Here: http://bit.ly/HAregistration

HARRIET’S APOTHECARY HEALING VILLAGE: WINTER SOLSTICE EDITION 2019

Join Harriet’s Apothecary (www.harrietsapothecary.com) and our friends for our fifth annual healing village, community holiday bazaar,and swag swap on Saturday, December 14th and Sunday, December 15 from 12-7pm.

███▓▒░░.DAY 1, SATURDAY DECEMBER 14.░░▒▓███
will offer dialogue around how we wage love and resistance within the current political climate, what tools we have, what resources we need. We will lean into tools our ancestors have summoned in times of crisis and build our own blueprints. We will also share free to sliding scale, body-affirming, love-drenched potions, rituals, and customized individual and group healing spaces to restore and expand our community’s abilities to transform stress and heal trauma. Services and offerings include mindfulness meditation, art-making, acupuncture, massage, reiki, herbalism, , plant based medicine making, healing haircuts, spiritual divinations, peer to peer counseling sessions, and more.

*****FOR BLACK, INDIGENOUS AND POC FOLKS ONLY ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14!!!***
Due to the current political climate and history of racist violence and white supremacy in the US, our Saturday programming is for BIPOC only, with the exception of the Black Love Brunch, POTLUCK-style (please bring a dish to share), for BLACK FOLKS ONLY!!!

AGENDA
☆゚12:00PM-3:00PM ::: BLACK LOVE BRUNCH (FOR BLACK FOLKS ONLY!!) POTLUCK-STYLE
☆゚3:30PM-5:00PM ::: WELCOME & SOUND CYPHER
☆゚5:15PM-6:30PM ::: GROUP MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
☆゚6:30PM-7:00PM ::: CLOSING RESILIENCE CIRCLE
☆゚2:00PM-7:00PM ::: ONE ON ONE HEALING SESSIONS

███▓▒░░.TO ATTEND ON DECEMBER 14, REGISTER HERE.░░▒▓███
http://bit.ly/HAregistration


███▓▒░░.DAY 2, SUNDAY DECEMBER 15.░░▒▓███ will center our Holiday Bazaar and Swag swap, lifting up the brilliance and creative genius of local community based Black, Indigenous and PoC Cis Women, Queer, Trans artists healers, unicorns and magicians. We are hella hype about centering cooperative economics, providing another opportunity for community to share with intention and resist the problematic season of capitalism that often does not serve us. We will also offer our FREEDOM SCHOOL featuring interactive creative community workshops, strategy sessions, dialogues and skillshares that will offer folks tangible tools to deepen our individual and collective healing powers outside systems of the state.

▽AGENDA▽
2ND FLOOR:
☆゚12:00PM-7:00PM :::: HOLIDAY BAZAAR AND SWAG SWAP
(if you want to apply to be a vendor or swag swapper http://bit.ly/HAvendorapplication)

All of the proceeds from the Bazaar will be going to Diversidad Sin Fronteras, a collective of trans and gender non conforming leaders who are aiding LGBTQ refugees before, during, and after being released from immigration detention.


3RD FLOOR:
☆゚1:00PM-7:00PM ::: FREEDOM SCHOOLS AND ONE-ON-ONE HEALING SESSIONS

███▓▒░░.TO ATTEND ON DECEMBER 15, REGISTER HERE.░░▒▓███
http://bit.ly/HAregistration


███▓▒░░.FULL PROGRAM.░░▒▓███
http://bit.ly/HAWinter2019program

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IN REMEMBRANCE OF 9/11 - Healing Session
Sep
11
7:30 PM19:30

IN REMEMBRANCE OF 9/11 - Healing Session

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At this special edition of the Hotel Henry Jazz Concert Series presented by JazzBuffalo, we join in association with international vocalist and community leader Drea d’Nur in a 9/11 Remembrance Concert. The evening will be a time for using the power of music for spiritual reflection and remembrance on a day that was seared in the memory of us all.

Tickets HERE !

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Dear Nina @ The Schomburg Center
Mar
4
7:00 PM19:00

Dear Nina @ The Schomburg Center

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“The Schomburg Center’s Annual Women's Jazz Festival, in honor of Women’s History Month, features some of the best-known and unsung female performers in jazz today. The 2019 festival is slated for each Monday in March – March 4, 11, 18 and 25.

Join us for the opening night performance Dear Nina: a sonic love letter to Nina Simone with Drea d'Nur & Strings by Rootstock Republic.

Power, poise and passion reign supreme in this pairing of voice and strings that celebrates the legendary-and at times uncharted-cannon of Nina Simone. Drea d'Nur (Vocalist/Pianist) accompanied by a 6-piece string ensemble, courtesy of Rootstock Republic: LIVE, share center stage in this uniquely intimate and newly orchestrated songbook of Nina's Love Songs, Blues and Protest Music.”

Tickets HERE

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Jan
28
6:00 PM18:00

Healing Session at NYU

ICNYU is excited to announce our next Healing through the Arts program, Healing Songs in Beautiful Places with Drea d' Nur. Healing Songs in Beautiful Spaces a sound movement workshop that explores the power of sound in intimate healing circles.

Music has been used as a tool for expression and healing throughout our history. Join us as we spend an evening exploring the power of song. RSVP HERE.


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May
5
7:00 PM19:00

Underground Railroad Heritage Center GALA

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On Saturday, May 5 we celebrate the many people who have worked on the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center over the past ten years.

 

Join us for a buffet dinner and program, including keynote speaker Alan Spears, Cultural Resources Director at the National Parks Conservation Association and a musical performance by singer and songwriter Drea d’Nur and a chance to see the newly opened Heritage Center during its opening weekend. Black tie optional.

Tickets are here!

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