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Smartphone Photo Contest and Exhibit

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First Ever Local Smartphone Photo Contest/Exhibit and Activities at Cooperative Gallery The first-ever local Smartphone Photo Contest and Exhibit will open First Friday March 2nd at the Cooperative Gallery 213 and run until March 24th. According to Peg Johnston, curator of the show, “Smartphone photos are ubiquitous on social media and at all … [Read more...]

Women’s March Huge

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March organizers estimates 2500 participants at the anniversary of last year's Women's March protesting the inauguration of Donald Trump as President and his regressive agenda. Ironically, on the first anniversary of his inauguration the US government is shut down, a fact not lost on the crowd Saturday. At the post March gathering at the First … [Read more...]

Women’s Suffrage Exhibit at BU

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Vote for Woman Suffrage! Commemorating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in New York State, 1917-2017 exhibit explores the suffrage movement from the Seneca Falls Convention to the fight by suffrage organizations in the Triple Cities for the woman’s right to vote. Items from the re-enactment of the 1913 Binghamton suffrage parade and the 2017 … [Read more...]

Call for papers: Perspectives on Broome County Area History Conference

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Conference date: Saturday, April 21, 2018 at the Bundy Museum of History and Art 129 Main St. Binghamton, New York 13905   Sponsored by: Bundy Museum of History and Art   The rich and complex history of Broome County has long attracted attention from a diverse array of researchers and citizens. In recent years, the area’s local history … [Read more...]

Art Mission to Close

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The Board of Directors of the Art Mission just announced:  "It is with great sadness that we must inform our patrons that the Art Mission and Theater will be closing as of Friday 12/29/2017. After much thought regarding the organization's financial position and the current film viewing climate the board of directors has voted to proceed with … [Read more...]

Did Trump Read 1984?

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The Trump Administration has instructed the Centers for Disease Control not to use certain words in reports and budgets. The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.” During the Bush II … [Read more...]

20 Gardens by 2020

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As part of VINES' 10th Anniversary, we have launched a campaign to build 20 gardens by 2020. This expansion would not be made possible without the funding through a grant from the Conrad and Virginia Klee Foundation. With volunteer help, we were able to build two new community gardens this fall. We built a garden on Park Street, on the West Side of … [Read more...]

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