March 24th - 7:00PM:
Numbers Speak The Truth. Real Stories About Youth
Community event to dispel negative stereotypes about youth and to motivate adults to connect with youth.
Location: The Dugan Center at St. Mary's, 15 St. Mary's Place, Rochester 14607

April 6 - 7:30 PM
Geva Theatre + Downtown Community Forum = An incredible evening of thought provoking performance and "talk back"!

Location: Geva Theatre

Specially priced tickets are availalbe for the April 6, 7:30 PM performance of August Wilson's "Two Trains Running". The evening at Geva will feature a performance of the play followed by a facilitated discussion on the issues Wilson raises. Priced at $25.00 each, these tickets are availble at the Rectory.

One of the leading playwrights of the late twentieth century, August Wilson brought African American culture and history to the stage with eloquence. His many awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, together with his formidable critical reputation and the popularity of his plays, marked his status as perhaps the greatest black dramatist of his generation. Wilson is widely known for his ear for idiomatic African American dialogue, his gift for portraying political dilemmas and social turbulence in an immediate and compelling manner, and his deep knowledge of daily life among impoverished blacks living in U.S. cities.

Two Trains Running, one of Wilson’s most overtly and pointedly political works, takes place during the heyday of the black power movement, at a moment of great upheaval in U.S. race relations. It is one of a series of plays dealing with African American culture and history in the twentieth century, and perhaps its central theme is the manner in which the poor urban black community reacted to legal victories of the civil rights movement. Wilson stresses that a sense of hopelessness went hand-in-hand with optimism and progress in places such as 1969 urban Pittsburgh, where equal rights applied to African Americans only in theory and many blacks struggled daily with meager wages and dismal prospects.

April 27 - 6:45PM:
We Shall Remain: After The Mayflower - "The Campaign for Love and Forgiveness"
Sponsored by WXXI and the Fetzer Institute
Free and Open to the Public
Now in its fourth year, the Campaign for Love and Forgiveness uses the acclaimed PBS Series "We Shall Remain" to expand upon the concepts of love and forgiveness. The forum will consists of a group viewing of the program followed by a facilitated discussion led by Steve Jarose of the National Coalition Building Institute.
Location: The Dugan Center at St. Mary's, 15 St. Mary's Place, Rochester 14607