Events

Syracuse’s Juneteenth celebration attracts mostly locals, but some traveled much farther than down the street to join in the annual festival celebrating African-American heritage. Exzabia Pointer and Tatiyana Alston, dancers with the Approaching Storm Marching Band, drove five hours from Brooklyn with about 30 of their fellow band members to participate in the parade down Salina Street held June 16th. …

Exhibit on display at Community Folk Art Center through June 30th The headlines are all-too-familiar:  “Two Women, Man Shot on Syracuse’s East Side,” “Two Injured in Syracuse Shooting” and “Violent 90 Minutes in Syracuse.” “The chances of being a victim of a violent crime in Syracuse are 1 in 111 as compared to the State of New York, 1 in …

Valerie Hill is the organizer of the “Vision of Victory” parade for Syracuse’s annual Juneteenth celebration. This is something she has done for the past three years. She and the Juneteenth organizers have been working diligently to create this year’s commemoration. They believe success is defined by the participation of a wide spectrum of the Syracuse community — people of …

The Syracuse Peace Council will hold summer bike clinics for youth from 5 to 7 p.m. on select Tuesdays this summer. Bikes 4 Peace organizes volunteers with mechanical/bike skills to provide free clinics for city youth. The clinics assist youth with fixing and maintaining their bikes as well as recycling donated bikes to give away. In order to receive assistance …

Update: Organizers have postponed this event and, as of now, no new date is set A South Side festival in late June will highlight local farms, community gardens and the importance of healthy eating habits. For organizer Mable Wilson, it’s the first time she has organized an event on a scale like this. Surveying the future site of the festival …

Three workshops are planned this summer for those in the community interested in getting involved with The South Side Newspaper Project and contributing to The Stand. The first, offered at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 19, at the South Side Communication Center, will provide a lesson in journalist writing and discuss additional ways to contribute to the project.

Go ‘Behind the Scenes of The Stand’ on April 14 Staff reporters with The Stand will share how they developed their story ideas and the process taken to put together an article for the print issue in a unique workshop where we let you go Behind the Scenes of The Stand.

Register your group for the Earth Day Cleanup by April 6 Help beautify our community by volunteering for OCRRA’s annual Earth Day Litter Cleanup event happening April 20 and 21. Just donating an hour or so of your time can have a huge impact on the look of our community.

Three organize a ‘1,000,000 Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin’ this Friday Ashley Miller of Clay never thought twice about putting a hoodie on her 3-year-old son, Daquan. A hoodie, she thought, is nothing more than a jacket with a hood — a piece of clothing to keep her son warm. Her thoughts changed in the wake of the death of …

Volunteers and attendees agreed that the Sister Circle was one of the most powerful moments of the Image Initiative’s annual “Sisters Empowering Sisters” conference on Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24. While the girls sat in a circle with their eyes closed, other participants, many of them strangers at the time, whispered affirmations in their ear.