Events

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"Health Care for All," a two hour special featuring Governor Deval Patrick, will be cablecast on WCCA TV 13 Friday, April 13 at 9:30 PM and Sunday, April 15 at 7:30pm.

"Health Care for All" is building a movement of empowered people
and organizations with the goal of creating a Massachusetts health
care system that is responsive to the needs of ALL people, particularly the most vulnerable. Health Care for All is dedicated to making quality care the right of all people, and support a health care system that is universal, comprehensive, and equitable.

What: Rally Against Global Climate Change

Bands, Speakers, Info, Food and Fun

When: April 14th

Where: Elm Park, Worcester

(and hundreds of other cities)

Why: To mobilize the masses and let our voices be heard, with the goal of making Worcester an example of how a city can reduce greenhouse emissions on a local level.

Bill McKibben:

Every group will be saying the same thing: Step it up, Congress! Enact immediate cuts in carbon emissions, and pledge an 80% reduction by 2050. No half measures, no easy compromises-the time has come to take the real actions that can stabilize our climate.

National "Step It Up" site

Join us for the 7th-annual Rebuilding Weekend, sponsored by Rebuilding Together, an entirely volunteer-based home-renovation organization. Over the weekend, we will clean-up and renovate approximately 10 homes in Worcester. Come on Friday afternoon, Saturday, or Sunday afternoon. We can use anyone who would like to help, though we have special needs for people with home-renovation skills (carpentry, plumbing, electrical, wall-papering, carpeting, etc.). We also welcome financial support. For more information, check out our website: www.rebuildingtogetherworcester.org.

At SAORI Worcester: 131 Highland St.

Local Filmmaker Nora Werme created this 20-minute film to express her joy in weaving in the improvisation SAORI style, and to show the reactions of her family to the 26-foot she wove, as it got included in family reunion photo shoots, wrapped around babies and newlyweds, and eyed by skeptical "what's-it-good-for" male relatives. The film introduces SAORI teacher Mihoko Wakabayashi, who explains the four core principles of SAORI weaving, and a 9-year-old boy weaving prodigy with a mysterious smile. Light refreshments and friendly conversation!

E-mail: mihoko@saoriworcester.com
Phone: 508-757-4646

Join us for the 7th-annual Rebuilding Weekend, sponsored by Rebuilding Together, an entirely volunteer-based home-renovation organization. Over the weekend, we will clean-up and renovate approximately 10 homes in Worcester. Come on Friday afternoon, Saturday, or Sunday afternoon. We can use anyone who would like to help, though we have special needs for people with home-renovation skills (carpentry, plumbing, electrical, wall-papering, carpeting, etc.). We also welcome financial support. For more information, check out our website: www.rebuildingtogetherworcester.org.

No appointment needed.

Just stop by Worcester's Residential Drop-Off Center: 1065 Millbury St (formerly 115 Ballard St) (map)

Download the full flier

Materials Accepted: Computers, monitors, televisions, LCD panels, printers, other computer related equipment, stereos, cell phones, VCR’s, microwave ovens and other household electronics.

Materials Not Accepted: Air conditioners, de-humidifiers, and white goods such as washers, dryers, stoves and refrigerators.

For more info, call: 508.929.1300 (Worcester DPW) or 508.795.1950 (Metech)

Sponsored by Worcester DPW, Metech, and the Regional Environmental Council.

Join us for the 7th-annual Rebuilding Weekend, sponsored by Rebuilding Together, an entirely volunteer-based home-renovation organization. Over the weekend, we will clean-up and renovate approximately 10 homes in Worcester. Come on Friday afternoon, Saturday, or Sunday afternoon. We can use anyone who would like to help, though we have special needs for people with home-renovation skills (carpentry, plumbing, electrical, wall-papering, carpeting, etc.). We also welcome financial support. For more information, check out our website: www.rebuildingtogetherworcester.org.

Burncoat Baptist Church invites you to listen to the St. John Flute Choir perform “Praise the Lord with Flutes” on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 1:00 PM in the Sanctuary at 475 Burncoat Street in Worcester. Plan to join Burncoat Baptist at the morning worship service beginning at 10:00 a.m. and enjoy a free lunch at 11:30 a.m. along with this special musical event! Parking is available behind the church. “Praise the Lord with Flutes” is a rich flute repertoire that spans the centuries from Renaissance time to the present. Admission is free and refreshments will be served after the performance. A free will offering will be collected after the performance to help fund future musical events.

The St. John Flute Choir is an ensemble of 10 flute musicians from Sudbury, Concord, Acton, Harvard, Hudson, Carlyle, and Wayland, MA who perform on traditional flutes and other instruments in the flute family such as the piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute. Founded in 2002, the mission of the St John Flute Choir is to provide an opportunity for adult flutists to continue in their development and enjoyment of music through ensemble playing. The group is committed to the enhancement of religious worship services. St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudbury supports the choir, and the choir provides a regular musical contribution to the worship service and special concerts in the church. In addition to guest appearances at churches other than the St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, St. John’s Flute Choir has also performed for community charitable events such as Relay for Life, a relay event to help raise money to support the efforts of the American Cancer Society, and Hope Sudbury, Inc., a humanitarian outreach project designed to engage Sudbury citizens, employees and business people in an annual community wide effort to provide humanitarian aid to people in need. Barbara Weiblen directs the choir. She has been the principal flutist with The Concord Band, Concord, MA since 2000 and began her musical career at the age of 8 when she began playing the flute. While in high school in Iowa, Barbara won many awards at music contests and was selected as first chair in the Iowa All-State Band. During her high school years, she also played in the Austin, Minnesota Symphony orchestra, as well as in a local municipal band and, while in college, Barbara played in the Wartburg College Concert Band. For more information view the church website at burncoatbaptist.com or call the church office at 508-853-6240.

Seminar: Unlocking the Mystery of Lupus

Date: April 26, 2007, 5:30 PM, light meal will be provided

Location: YWCA of Central Massachusetts, One Salem Square, Worcester, MA 01608

Purpose of the Seminar: this free seminar will raise awareness about lupus among women of African descent. Approximately, 90% of the 1.5 million individuals who suffer from lupus are women. Black women have a greater risk for developing lupus, develop lupus earlier, and experience more complications related to lupus.

The seminar will provide participants information about a range of issues related to living with lupus, including medical, social services, mental health, and legal issues. In addition, seminar participants will be provided brochures and other literature related to lupus.

All individuals will be accommodated despite disability status. In order to make appropriate accommodations for all individuals, we strongly encourage pre-registration by April 16th. However, onsite registration will also be available.

Who is Conducting the Seminar: GEARS, Inc. is working with partners at the Lupus Foundation of New England; the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Center for Environmental Health; the Arthritis Foundation; and the Urban League of Springfield.

For More Information: please contact Dr. Marie Mesidor, GEARS Program Coordinator, at 617.328.5140 or mmesidor@getingears.com. Pre-registration by April 16, 2007 is strongly encouraged.

Hi, all...

The Central MA Heartwalk will be on Saturday, April 28th, 2007, from 10 AM to noon. Sign up and do a couple of miles, from the Worcester Common behind City Hall, up to Shrewsbury Street, and back. More info is at www.worcesterheartwalk.org. Everyone has been affected by heart disease.

For myself, I am honored to have been selected to provide entertainment during the day by playing acoustic guitar and singing at mile marker 1 - 225 Shrewsbury St., outside of Coral Seafood. I'm doing this in memory of my father, Emile Kirouac, and brother, Rodney Kirouac - both of whom were taken by heart-related ailments.
Please consider joining the thousands of volunteers and spectators that day, or make a donation to the American Heart Association, 20 Speen St., Framingham, MA.

More also at http://dankirouac.freeservers.com.

Thank you!

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Dan Kirouac

This year's MS Walk will take place on Saturday, April 28th from 10:00 a.m. - noon at Burncoat High School, 179 Burncoat Street, Worcester.

Walkers can choose either the 3-mile or 6-mile walk route and lunch is served to all participants. Groups of family members, friends, co-workers...even dogs are welcome! To find out more information, visit our website at www.msnewengland.org

All proceeds benefit the National MS Society and help the thousands of people who are affected by multiple sclerosis right here in Central Massachusetts.

April 30th marks a special day in the lives of children. It is a day to celebrate children and books. Known as El Dia de los niños/El dia de los libros, or Children's Day/Book Day, this is a day to celebrate the joys and wonders of childhood and the importance of books in our lives.

We are looking for volunteers to join us at Rainbow on Monday, April 30th at 10:30 am. Celebrate with us! Please call me at 508-791-6849 or email me at
mpardotesta@rainbowcdc.com.

New Leadership Models for the United States and the World: A Call to Action Conference at the Beechwood Hotel, Worcester, Tuesday May 1, 2007; RSVP by 4/20
• Conference: 8:30 am-3:30 $95.00
• Luncheon and Presentation 12:30-2:00 $55.00
• Conference and reception 8:30-5:30 $120.00
• Luncheon, Presentation and Mini-Workshop 10:30-2:00 $75
• Reception 3:30-5:30 $30.00
sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership, www.global-leader.org, 508-753-4172 ext 2 To RSVP before April 20 and provide contact information

Virginia Swain, Founder and Director of The Institute for Global Leadership, invites you to a Conference and a week-long series of events marking the Institute for Global Leadership’s Fifth Anniversary

Special Guest Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, from Bangladesh, will receive the first Institute for Global Leadership Lifetime Service Award. Mr. Chowdhury is the United Nations Under-Secretary-GeneVral and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. To learn more, UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States
For five years, Mr. Chowdhury and Ms. Swain co-designed a leadership certificate program for the United Nations International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). For the 8 December 2006 United Nations 5th anniversary celebration of their collaboration, go to www.global-leader.org , News, click here.
Mr. Chowdhury will speak at a reception following the conference to launch the Center for Global Community and World Law at 4:00 p

Conference Agenda
• Registration: 8:30-9:00
• The Leadership Café: 9:00-10:30 www.worldcafe.com
• Mining a Defining Moment: 10:45-12:00 (included in Mini-Conference)
• Luncheon and Presentation: “New Leadership Models for Worcester, the United States and the World: A Call to Action,” 12:30-2:00 Virginia Swain and Special Guest Speaker Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Honoree of the Institute for Global Leadership First Leadership Award (included in Mini-Conference)
• Book talks and signing A Mantle of Roses: A Woman’s Journey Home to Peace, a memoir by Virginia Swain, 2:30-3:30 pm
• Reception to Launch the Center for Global Community and World Law 3:30-5:30

There will be an Immigrant Rights rally at City Hall this May 1, from 4-6pm.

The rally is the topic of this week's episode of Stand Tall, Be One.

At SAORI Worcester: 131 Highland St.

See and touch creative, colorful, improvisationally hand-woven artwork. Also try SAORI weaving, enjoy light refreshments, hear live music, and meet Nimbus the Angora Rabbit. All ages welcome! (Exhibit runs through July 28 with some rotation of artwork)

E-mail: mihoko@saoriworcester.com
Phone: 508-757-4646

At First Unitarian Church,Bancroft Room, 90 Main Street, Worcester

$10 Suggested Donation

Sponsored by: Elm Park School Field Improvement Committee

Local Fixture Nat Needle gives this thundering yet delicate, muscular yet sensitive Jazz Piano and Vocals concert to benefit the restoration of the Elm Park Community School field. Classic jazz, blues, and swing tunes from 1920-1960 to be mixed with Nat's funny (ha-ha funny) original songs about animals, Worcester, fruit, Buddhism, exercise, life in Japan, love, and who knows. Bring your houseplants - Nat's music will affect them in a positive way. Suggested donation: $10. Info 508-757-0116

The Fifth Annual Worcester Walk-A-Thon To Cure Scleroderma will take place from the Bancroft School on Sunday, May 6, 2007.
Sign-in will begin at 10 a.m. in the Bancroft School Gymnasium, 110 Shore Drive, Worcester, and the 3.5-mile Walk around Indian Lake steps off at noon.
Scleroderma is a chronic, often progressive, autoimmune disease. It literally means “hard skin” which can cause thickening and tightening of the skin, as well as causing damage to internal organs. It occurs about four times more often in women than in men, and also attacks children. Its cause is unknown, and presently there is no cure.
Funds raised by the May 6 Walk will be used by the New England Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation to help people with Scleroderma and their families cope with the disease through support programs, physician referrals, educational information and research.
For further information, e-mail SCWorcester@gmail.com or call the Chapter’s toll-free number in Topsfield – 888-525-0658.

Phelan Center
Blessed Sacrament Church
551 Pleasant St (Newton Hill)