The 2019 Northside Festival will be held as a street festival in the 800 block of North Salina Street from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8. Attendees can enjoy family fun, activities for kids, Northside food vendors, the Vietnamese Dragon Dance and Italian, Bhutanese and Bavarian musical performances. To learn more, contact Mary Salibrici at msalibrici@yahoo.com.
Tomorrow's Neighborhoods Today Southside regularly meets at 6 p.m. on the first Monday of each month. Meetings are subject to change if necessary. For more information or to be added to the group's email list, call TNT Operations Manager Tina Zagyva at (315) 448-8178 or email TZagyva@SyrGov.net. Note September's meeting meets on the second Monday of the month due to the Labor Day holiday.
A representative from the 2020 Census will be on hand to help people apply for Census jobs. For more information, call the library at (315) 435-1940.
Internationally-renowned lacrosse stickmaker, Alf Jacques of the Onondaga Nation, will talk about how he creates traditional wooden lacrosse sticks from tree to finished stick. He will discuss the game of lacrosse from an historical, cultural and religious perspective and will have his personal collection of antique lacrosse sticks on display. To learn more, call the library at (315) 435-1940
A meeting on the status of the I-81 Viaduct Project will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Chestnut Hill Middle School, 200 Saslon Park Dr., Liverpool. Attendees will learn about the project alternatives, get questions answered and have a chance to provide comments. For more information, visit the project website at dot.ny.gov/i81opportunities. If you need an interpreter or have special needs, please contact Curtis Jetter at (315) 428-4351.
Need help with legal problems? Talk to a lawyer for free on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. Volunteer lawyers will answer questions on a first-come, first-served basis in the CNY Meeting Room on Level 3 of Central Library. Arrive early and sign in as space is limited
The NYCLU will hold an I-81 workshop to provide information to residents starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at Beauchamp Branch Library.
Volunteer tutors spend at least one hour weekly reading, writing and talking with students in kindergarten to third grade at Syracuse city schools. A training to become a Syracuse City School District tutor through the Oasis program will be held from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Syracuse Teacher Center, 1005 W. Fayette St. For more information, contact Shelly Lee at LeeShe@upstate.edu.
The U.S. Postal Service offers short-term work during the holidays. These casual mail handlers work indoors at the Syracuse mail processing plant. These positions are designed for people looking to earn extra money during the holiday season. A hiring workshop will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Syracuse plant, 5640 E. Taft Road. To reserve a spot, call Theresa at (315) 452-3508.
This free workshop is sponsored and funded by Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel with guest artists Jennifer Denning and Carolyn Renee from InterPlay Atlanta. Session will be held in room 100a of The Nancy Cantor Warehouse in downtown Syracuse. Free parking is available.
The tools of InterPlay provide artful ways to help people share personal stories, find courage, witness, affirm and deepen their awareness and motivation to shift implicit bias, structural racism and racially-charged dynamics. There is a physicality to the emotions that get triggered on all sides by racism, by interactions that are racially-charged and by forums on race issues. InterPlay’s expressive art-based tools will offer participants an effective container to transform and release difficult emotions. InterPlay Atlanta leaders Denning and Renee bring years of experience using InterPlay and other body-arts modalities to offer this in-the-moment, interactive workshop for community connection and healing.
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