Events for September 24 - May 7 › Community Event

Community Event – 2024 Multicultural Children’s Festival

Let’s Travel the World! Saturday, April 6, from 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. State College Area High School South Building 650 Westerly Parkway, State College, PA 16801 WPSU’s most popular children’s event of the year has returned for 2024 with partnership from State College Area School District. This year’s festival will have more activities and performances than ever before. At the 2024 Multicultural Children’s Festival, your child and family will: Discover the world and immerse your family in diverse cultures and the people from those cultures through art, music, and hands-on crafts for kids of all ages. Enjoy more space for [...]

Community Event ~ CPAU Presents Documentary Screening: No Way Home

University Baptist and Brethren Church 411 S Burrowes St, State College, PA, United States

Please note: you can attend this event either in person or virtually. Join CPAU on April 19th at 7:00 pm at University Baptist & Brethren Church for the release of No Way Home, a documentary depicting a mother's poignant journey to reunite her family and end mandatory life without parole in Pennsylvania. Witness the story of Lorraine Haw, affectionately known as Mrs. Dee Dee, as she navigates the aftermath of gun violence in Philadelphia. From the loss of her brother to a fatal altercation over a gold necklace to her son's heartbreaking sentence, Mrs. Dee Dee's narrative sheds light on the [...]

Community Event ~ APIDA Heritage Festival Night Market

Please join us in the 2nd Annual APIDA Festival to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This town and gown event will include food, music, live entertainment for all to enjoy. The event will be held at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza and Fraser Street.  

Community Event – “Global Warming 101” with guest speaker Dr. Raymond Najjar

Foxdale Auditorium 500 E Marylyn Ave, State College, United States

The Foxdale Climate Care Committee presents this event. Come learn about the fundamentals of Earth's changing climate, including the evidence for warming, the contributions of humans, the impacts on ecosystems and society, and how our actions now will determine the severity of the threat to our future generations. Dr. Najjar is Professor of Oceanography in the PSU Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science with a joint appointment in the Department of Geosciences. This is a Community Event, so come early to get a seat. This will be facilitated by Martha Butler, G-111.

Community Event – End Gun Violence Advocacy Day and Carpooling

End Gun Violence Advocacy Day Last year, 500 Pennsylvanians descended on Harrisburg, demanding an end to gun violence. Soon after, the first bipartisan policies in years passed the PA House. Join us on Tuesday, May 7th as we continue our life-saving work, use this link to register https://act.ceasefirepa.org/a/advocacyday24?ms=CCIC4GS. Schedule: 9:00 - 9:30 AM: Arrive in Harrisburg, Check-In 10:00 - 11:45 AM: Advocacy Meetings & Drop-Bys with Legislative Offices (meetings scheduled on your behalf) 12:00 - 1:00 PM: End Gun Violence Rally/Press Event on the Front Steps of the Capitol (tentative timing) Carpooling: Meet at UUFCC at 7:15 am to carpool down [...]

Community Event ~ The Centre County Advisory Council to the PHRC Annual Meet and Greet

The Centre County Advisory Council to the PHRC will be holding their annual social gathering meet and greet on Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 5:30 pm, at Titan Hollow Restaurant, 2O42 Axemann Rd Suite 179, Bellefonte, PA 16823. This gathering is for members of the public interested in the work of the Advisory Council and the PA Human Relations Commission. The Commission is looking for more members to join the advisory council, and this is one way to learn more about their work. Interested parties and their family members are invited. Both Brittany Mellinger, the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the [...]

UUFCC @ State College Pride!

Join us to celebrate State College Pride! Sign up here to help design our float for the parade and/or help at our table. Click here for our weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 5:30PM (for half an hour) over Zoom to get up to date and share ideas. Please talk to Rev. Tracy for more information.

Community Event – Juneteenth Celebration Weekend, State College

Get ready for Juneteenth Weekend 2024! Juneteenth is a celebration to commemorate the day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to ensure the freedom of all enslaved people. In June of 2021, Juneteenth was recognized as a federal holiday. Juneteenth Weekend is founded by the State College NAACP in partnership with the Borough of State College, the Center for the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, and The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau. For more information visit: https://statecollegepa.civilspace.io/en/projects/juneteenth-weekend-2024

Community Event – Juneteenth Celebration Weekend, State College

Get ready for Juneteenth Weekend 2024! Juneteenth is a celebration to commemorate the day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to ensure the freedom of all enslaved people. In June of 2021, Juneteenth was recognized as a federal holiday. Juneteenth Weekend is founded by the State College NAACP in partnership with the Borough of State College, the Center for the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, and The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau. For more information visit: https://statecollegepa.civilspace.io/en/projects/juneteenth-weekend-2024

Subu Vedam Case Information Session

UUFCC - Sanctuary 780 Waupelani Drive, State College, PA, United States

Come to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County on June 16 at 11:30 a.m. for a Subu Vedam Community Awareness program. Subramanyam (Subu) Vedam, a State College man, was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1982 and sentenced to life without parole, leading to decades of trauma for him and his family. Documents have recently surfaced showing that Subu could not have committed the crime, and that prosecutors concealed this evidence from his defense. On Monday July 22 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, a judge will hear arguments as to whether a petition for [...]

Community Event – “Cooked, Survival by Zip Code”

Foxdale Auditorium 500 E Marylyn Ave, State College, United States

Cooked, Survival by Zip Code was produced by an award winning filmmaker named Judith Hefand.  It will be shown July 11th, 7pm in the Foxdale Auditorium. The film is being co-sponsored by the Climate Justice Group of State College Friends Meeting, and Foxdale’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Climate Care Committees.  State College community attendance is welcomed. Cooked, Survival by Zip Code documents various weather disasters but focuses on the 1995 Chicago heat disaster that killed 739 people. Most of those people were elderly, impoverished and many were black. This film links extreme weather events with extreme disparity ...  people without [...]

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