Genre: Community Event

Covering the Vote: Journalists Examine the 2024 Election

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A panel discussion featuring local, state and national reporters sharing their experiences and observations from the 2024 election and what they see going forward.

Colby Itkowitz
National Politics Reporter
The Washington Post

Brett Sholtis
Investigative Reporter, Democracy
LNP | LancasterOnline

Carter Walker
Pennsylvania Reporter
VotebeatUS

Katie Bernard
Reporter
Philadelphia Inquirer

The mission of the Lancaster County Local Journalism Fund is to support, protect, and expand local journalism in and for Lancaster County by promoting investigative and public interest journalism and media literacy. These efforts will ensure the people of Lancaster County continue to be informed, engaged, and empowered by independent local journalism. https://lancjournalismfund.org/ 

Piano Pete & a Poet Meet

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The event will feature a unique, collaborative set designed and performed by musical artist Piano Pete, a New York City pianist, and Dana Kinsey, Lancaster City Poet Laureate, actor, and spoken word artist. The performance will feature original poems in communion with songs composed or adapted by Piano Pete. The set will include some narrative as well as a few special guest artists. 

Disposable Humanity – FREE

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Tuesday, November 17, 2026 • 7 PM • Steinman Hall
 
In Disposable Humanity, the Mitchell family—esteemed Disability Studies scholars and filmmakers—delve into the chilling legacy of the Nazi Aktion T4 program. This investigative documentary recounts the long-obscured history of how over 300,000 disabled individuals became the initial victims of the Third Reich. Targeted by the T4 program as having a “life unworthy of living,” their murders laid the groundwork for the Holocaust that followed.
 
6:15 PM • Pre-show community panel discussion
 
Post-show • Q&A with director Cameron Mitchell
 
Accessibility: The film is captioned, and live captioning (CART) and ASL interpreting will be provided for the panel discussion. Please get in touch with Barry Kornhauser to learn more.
 
Co-presented by the MU Disability Film Festival and Congregation Shaarai Shomayim. Live captioning (CART) supported by the MU Office of Learning Services.

2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture with Barbara McQuade

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SPEAKER: Barbara McQuade
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Law professor and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade will discuss the tactics of disinformation, how technology is exacerbating the problem, and how it is affecting American society. She will also offer potential solutions to help us mitigate the challenges of disinformation in an evolving world.

Lecture begins at 7:00 pm in Biemesderfer Concert Hall, Winter Center.

2026 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture with Dr. Christina Wolbrecht

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SPEAKER: Dr. Christina Wolbrecht
 
On Thursday, October 15, University College and the League of Women Voters of Lancaster County will sponsor a lecture given by University of Notre Dame political science professor, Christina Wolbrecht.
 
From Kamala Harris to Nikki Haley, women in public life are widely expected to inspire young people, especially girls, to follow in their footsteps. Is this expectation fulfilled? Based on See Jane Run, her recent book with David E. Campbell, Christina Wolbrecht explains how and when women in politics help convince young people that women are capable of political leadership, enhance faith in democracy, and inspire political engagement, including a desire to run for office themselves. As role models, women politicians help ensure a more inclusive democracy.
 
Lecture begins at 7:00 pm in Biemesderfer Concert Hall, Winter Center.

Homestead Village’s Thriving & Inspiring Talk – Speaker: Jim Davidson

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Adventure Seeker Jim Davidson has been chosen as the speaker for Homestead Village’s second annual 2025 Thriving & Inspiring Talk. He has written two best-selling books about his life-changing experiences mountain climbing and has cheated death more than once. His message of survival, facing your fears, and resilience will have you on the edge of your seat and inspire you to conquer any challenges that come your way.
 
Ticket Prices:
General Admission: $25.00

Holocaust Conference Keynote Lecture by Dr. Norman Naimark, Stanford University “Never Again? Genocide in the 21st Century”

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Dr. Norman Naimark is one of the most well-known international scholars on genocide. He is a professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Dr. Naimark is an author of such widely recognized books as Fires of Hatred: A History of Ethnic Cleansing and Stalin’s Genocides. 

This event is made possible by the continued generous support of P. Alan and Linda Loss. 

We The People First Fridays Presents: Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project – FREE

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project

Friday, November 4, 2022 | 6:30 P.M.

Steinman Hall | Ware Center

FREE

The Jingle Dress Project takes the healing power of the Ojibwe jingle dress across the nation. Through the project’s travels, dance and images of the spiritual places our ancestors once walked, it unites and gives healing hope to the world through art, dance and culture.

 

ART: Eugene Tapahe Photography

Friday, November 4

Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.

Lyet Lobby | Ware Center

On display November 4 through 29

ART: The Woodcut Portraits of Dan Miller

Friday, November 4

Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.

Regitz Gallery | Ware Center

On display November 4 through 29

At age 94, Lancaster County woodcut artist Dan Miller still makes the train commute to Philadelphia for his full-time professorship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) where he has taught for nearly 60 years.

A well-known artist in the galleries of Philadelphia, Miller is holding his first-ever show in Lancaster at 6 PM on (First) Friday, November 4 at the Ware Center.

Miller discovered the woodcut during visits to Japan in the early 1950s. Later, during his studies as a painting major at PAFA, he gradually drifted toward the medium for its directness of process and expressive strength.

You can learn much more about Miller’s life and process from a film by one of his former students, “The Reward of Art.”

ARTIST STATEMENT

The woodcut conceived in China in the 9th Century as a simple illustration of religious text has, over the centuries, achieved multiple levels of expression. Unlike other art forms in need of patronage approval, the graphic artist has been free to give voice to the personal and the controversial. The woodcut’s independence of spirit has been its power.   My own introduction to the woodcut began with visits to Japan in the early 1950s, but no efforts on my part were made until 1955 with my entrance into the Pennsylvania Academy as a painting major. I gradually began drifting toward the woodcut because of its directness of process and its expressive strength. The world of wood, printing ink and paper became a way of life. There seemed no better way to give voice to a needed desire to search for content and meaning.

Breast-A-Ville “Pink Out” for Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast-A-Ville “Pink Out” for Breast Cancer Awareness

Steinman Hall | Ware Center

Entertainment, raffle baskets, breast health information, and more. Musical guest Lavacave! Gypsybilly Cabaret stylings, with violinist Robin Chambers, and Nick DiSanto of one-man band fame, wailing and crooning their original fare.

 

Art: Jan Yatsko – 52 DIVAS

Regitz Gallery | Ware Center

Friday, October 7, 2022

Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.

On display October 3 through 28

ARTIST STATEMENT

The 52 self-portraits are a conversation and visual discovery of my own image, with myself, as an artist and with the viewer.

Since 2013, I have taught a workshop for women titled “Discover Your Inner Diva”. 2 years later, I decided to use the same exercises in the workshop for my own development. From January 2015 to March 2022, I painted 52 self-portraits of my life with its ups and downs, my dreams, my thoughts, and my visual interpretation of spiritual classes that I have taken as well as certain phrases from books. During this process, I realized that it has also been a visual interpretation of Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”. The colors, symbols and images reflect my life in Costa Rica since 1999.  It is a “visual journey” of my interior self as well as an artist over 7 years.

On Screen/In Person Film Series Old Friends: A Dogumentary – FREE

A heartwarming story of the beloved Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Join founders Zina and Michael Gooden, their amazing staff, and over one hundred plus senior pooches as they parade to their new 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art home.

6:15 P.M. Community Panel Discussion – – Lancaster Center for Animal Life-Saving, Humane PA represented by CEO Karel Minor

– ORCA (Organization for the Responsible Care of Animals) represented by Founder/Director Connie Kondravy

– K-Pets (Keystone Pet Enhanced Therapy Services represented by Director Laura Heller

– Paws On Deck (The Millersville University student branch of Susquehanna Service Dogs) represented by MU student president Jami Ebersole

7 P.M. Screening | Post-Show Q & A with film director Gorman Bechard

Running Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes.

But wait, there’s more! Join artist Loryn Spangler-Jones from 4-7 in front of the Ware for “puppies’ paws & prints”! Bring your furry friend and leave with art. Proceeds will be shared with participating orgs listed above. Learn more: https://fb.me/e/3wQKAVEnG