[act-ma] 12/18 Sacco & Vanzetti Award: SURVIVORS Of The USA’s WAR ON TERROR - The Holy Land 5 & Sami Al Arian & more
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CCB Sun., Dec. 18th @12 Noon ET: “Sacco & Vanzetti Award: SURVIVORS Of
The USA’s WAR ON TERROR - The Holy Land 5 & Sami Al Arian & more
Featuring:Miko Peled, Children of the HLF, Sami Al Arian (from
Qatar),Leena Al Arian, Abdulrahman Odeh. Join us In Person, on Zoom or
Youtube!
*Here is what's happening virtually and in person at Community Church of
Boston!*
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*CCB SUNDAYS & More*
*December 18 2022 - February 12 2023,
11 AM *(EST)
*12/18:* Special time (12 Noon) "*Sacco & Vanzetti Memorial Award to
Survivors of the USA's War on Terror"
12/18: The CCB Holiday Bazaar Begins!
12/22: "Holiday Songs You'll Never Hear at the Mall!" with Dean Stevens
& Magpie*
*Note this Sunday program begins at 12 Noon!*
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*CCB Sunday Programs & More
December 2022 - February 2023*
*We're open! Join us in the Lothrop Auditorium or Online.*
/The following programs will be on /
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/*“Holiday Songs You'll Never Hear at the Mall!”
with Dean Stevens and Magpie*/
/*Virtual Concert: **Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 at 7 p.m.*/
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Come hear Dean Stevens and MAGPIE (!). All three, for many decades, have
loved the songs of the season, songs about transformation, songs about
struggle, about the circle of time. Join us as we plunge into the depths
of winter darkness with light, song, wackiness, hope and joy!
The concert is *FREE,* on *Zoom* and *YouTube*, but do buy a ticket on
eventbrite if you can. All proceeds to performers!
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*Sunday, January 8th at 11 AM:*
*“Remembering Howard Zinn”*
*with Jeff Zinn*
Howard Zinn, the late iconic radical historian and author of “A People's
History of the United States", spoke many times at Community Church of
Boston during a span of over 30 years. His informative, passionate and
funny talks are preserved on cassettes in our archives. We are
digitizing and making them available on our YouTube Channel. Jeff Zinn,
Howard’s son, will join us with commentary as we hear excerpts from
these recordings.
*/ • Jeff Zinn /*is an American director and actor who has appeared in
the film Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and in
several films by Jay Craven. In theatre, Zinn played Danny in the
off-Broadway production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet,
and Trety in the Broadway production of The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman
starring Derek Jacobi.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
*Sunday, January 15th at 11 AM:*
*“Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
with Letta Neely*
*/• Letta Neely/* is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, she is a
Black lesbian playwright, performer, poet,
mother, teacher and community activist who has been involved in
progressive, anti-racist and queer liberation movements all her adult
life. Her work focuses on the connections and intersections of
queerness, Blackness, and awareness. Letta is also a co-artistic
director for Fort Point Theatre Channel. She is the editor and
scriptwriter of Ife Franklin's "The Slave Narratives of Willie Mae"
(book and film). Letta hosts FireWater Poetics (a hybrid open mic w/
feature) at Emerson College each month. Letta has received a host of
awards as well as roles in award winning productions. She is currently
the Associate Director of Programs at Apprentice Learning. She, along
with Greg Allen, are in the process of creating a one-person show,
“Pulling It All Into The Current”.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
*Coming to CCB: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, 7PM*
*DIVIDED BY POLITICS. UNITED BY MUSIC.*
Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live
on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking
their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, and
their momentous first performances together, Los Hermanos/The Brothers
offers a nuanced, often startling view of estranged nations through the
lens of music and family.
Featuring an electrifying, genre-bending score, composed by Cuban Aldo
López-Gavilán, performed with his American brother, Ilmar, and with
guest appearances by maestro Joshua Bell and the Harlem Quartet.
Ilmar Gavilán, violinist and music director of The Harlem String Quartet
will join us in a prerecorded interview via Zoom and YouTube.
*This a hybrid event. Join us in person in the Lothrop Auditorium or
watch the film on Zoom, or YouTube.*
Please register for this FREE film screening. No fee for admission but
donations appreciated. $20 suggested ticket price.
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*/Donations to benefit IFCO/Pastors for Peace./*
*Sunday, January 22nd at 11 AM:*
*“The Challenges of Writing About a Revolutionary Who Was Also a Poet:
The Case of Roque Dalton”
with Jim Iffland*
*/• Professor James Iffland/* has written on a wide variety of topics
related to the Spanish Golden Age, centering mainly on Cervantes and
Quevedo. Work in progress in this area includes a forthcoming book
entitled /Usos y abusos: ensayos sobre el destino social del/
“Quijote”. A secondary field of interest is contemporary Central
American literature. Among the courses he teaches are those on
Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Golden Age prose fiction, poetry, and drama,
and literature and social change in Latin America. He is also a faculty
member in the Center for Latin American Studies Program at the Pardee
School of Global Studies at Boston University.
*Mùsica en español por Dean Stevens*
*Sunday, January 29th at 11 AM:*
*“The Sickness is the System:
When Capitalism Fails to Save Us”
with Richard Wolff*
The 2022 midterm elections will be a milestone in the fight for
democracy. But that fight is far from over. All progressives must now
build a winning strategy to establish and consolidate a permanent
progressive majority. (Note: that is subject to change as circumstances
change.)
*/• Richard D. Wolff/* is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program
in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the
founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated
show Economic Update. His latest book is /The Sickness is the System:
When Capitalism Fails to Save Us/ from Pandemics or Itself, which can be
found along with his other books Understanding Socialism and
Understanding Marxism at www.democracyatwork.info.
*Music by David Rovics*
*February 5 at 11:00 AM: "TBA"*
*Sunday, February 12th at 11 AM:*
*"CCB, Diego Mendoza Lacán, and
the Sanctuary Movement”
with Rady Roldán-Figueroa*
This presentation is based on Rady's research of archival materials at
Community Church of Boston. It offers a narrative of CCB's involvement
in the Sanctuary Movement and Diego Mendoza Lacán's (AKA Manuel) role
will be emphasized as a de facto refugee activist.
*/• Rady Roldán-Figueroa/* is Associate Professor of the History of
Christianity at Boston University School of Theology. He does research
in the early modern period and is very interested in the history of
global Roman Catholicism, Christian spirituality, Baptists, and radical
Christianity.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
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