Community Calendarweek of January 29, 2012

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Friends of the Congo and the Richmond Peace Education Center (RPEC) will sponsor a showing of the short film Crisis in the Congo:

Uncovering the Truth at the Richmond Public Library at 101 East Franklin Street on Monday, February 6 at 5:30 PM.  See www.repc.org for details.

The Land and The Living” exhibition of new paintings by Virginia Tyack, opens First Friday, February 3rd from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at Richmond Main Library
Gellman Room and continues to February 28th. Her environmental interests and work as a member of the Riverine Chapter Master Naturalists inform her
interpretations of nature and landscape. For more information call the Library at 804-646-7223.

Join the Richmond Youth Peace Project in commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with our seventh annual Youth Educoncert,
Generation Dream 2012. Shows are scheduled for Friday, February 3, at 7 p.m. at the Richmond Public Library’s main branch (free), 101 E Franklin St, and
Saturday, February 4, at 2 p.m. at Science Museum of Virginia

Visions of Abolition is a new feature length documentary about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement.
The movie’s 2 parts will be screened on 2 different nights – Sunday February 19th at 7pm and Sunday February 26th at 7pm. Both parts of the film are less than
an hour long, leaving time for group discussion afterwards. We encourage people curious about the prison industrial system, political prisoners, women and prisons,
race and prisons, what alternatives there are to prisons and more to come watch and then join in the discussion. We will also have handouts and literature from the
Richmond Anarchist Black Cross at these screenings. The Wingnut is a sober, all ages space located at 2005 Barton Avenue. Please call 804 303 5449 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.

Come see the Lorax at 10 am on Saturday, February 4, when the James River Film Society and the Sierra Club Falls of the James Group will join
together to present another exciting RVA Environmental Film Festival at the Byrd Theatre.  At 10:00 AM, The LORAX.