{"id":84961,"date":"2017-09-27T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84961"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T19:18:00","slug":"inaugural-jam-fest-planned-for-oct-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84961","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural JAM Fest planned for Oct. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Live music, food, films, arts, kid activities\u00a0celebrates progressive values and culture\u00a0Central New York Citizen Action will hold its inaugural JAM (Justice, Arts, Music) Fest Saturday, Oct. 14,\u00a0in Utica. It will be held at three adjacent venues from\u00a011 a.m. to 5 p.m.: DeSales Center (309 Genesee St.), Utica<\/a>\u00a0Public Library (303 Genesee St<\/a>.) and Kopernik Park (corner of Genesee and Eagle Streets). Admission is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cCelebrating Progressive Values through Music, Arts, and Family Fun\u201d is the theme of the Fest.\u00a0\u00a0A complete schedule is available at:\u00a0jam.cnycia.org<\/a>\u00a0 The Facebook event page is:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1364661433631919\/<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0To read more about this event:\u00a0 http:\/\/cnycia.org\/uncategorized\/inaugural-jam-fest-saturday-october-14-in-utica\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Central New York Citizen Action and Citizen Action of New York, the JAM Fest will feature live music, crafts, art and film exhibits, speakers, children activities, face painting, nonprofit, job, and health information, and community discussions. It aims to bring people together to showcase local art and music as well as create a common public space for a dialogue on how we can bring about positive and progressive community change. Co-sponsors include\u00a0Central New York Labor Council and 1199SEIU.<\/p>\n

Short films dealing with economic justice, racial and gender inequality, immigration, and other current issues will be shown at the Utica Public Library. Local nonprofit agencies and businesses will also have exhibits showcasing products and services. There will be free giveaways. Food trucks such as the Polish Road House will be at the event. The Central New York Labor Council will hold its 2017 Organized Labor Charitable Giving Campaign for United Way and SEFA at the Fest. This is a nonpartisan event.<\/p>\n

The following performers reflecting a diverse range of musical genres (rock, folk, blues, rap, hip hop, alternative country, etc.) have been scheduled:\u00a0Jenni’s Little Secret, Mark Khel, TOXIC,<\/p>\n

New Age Static,\u00a0J. Schnitt,\u00a0Trizzy Beats, The Taryn Jessen Band, Cassandra and Kurt, JEasy, Lyfe, Dahmoe,\u00a0Edelweiss Schuhplatters\/ Gracie Schell of the Utica Maennerchor,\u00a0Bob & Betsy (Bob Rowe and Betsy Laporte), Irish Dancers, and Steven Zacaroli,\u00a0J. Schnitt, and Megg Faulkner.\u00a0Local artists such as Teresa Van Etten and\u00a0Tracy Besancon<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0will showcase their work.\u00a0BB Designs will provide a *hand + paint involved craft activities for kids.<\/p>\n

For more information:\u00a0cnyjamfest@gmail.com<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0315-725-0974<\/a>. The performance director for the event is Tasha Cooper who can be reached at\u00a0tcooper@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0315-542-0817<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Central New York Citizen Action is the local chapter of Citizen Action of New York. Established twenty years ago, it is a social justice advocacy organization which promotes progressive values of democracy, freedom, shared prosperity, tolerance and inclusion, justice, and equity.\u00a0Find us on FB\u2014Central New York Citizens in Action\/Central New York Progressive, @CNYACT, Follow us on Instagram: @cny_citizensinaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cCentral New York is a proud, progressive, diverse, and inclusive community rooted in culture, tradition and social justice activism for more than a century,” said John Furman, president of the Central New York Citizen Action. “The JAM Fest combines entertainment, music and art, and family fun to celebrate progressive values and diversity. Through music, visual arts, crafts and local foods, and hands-on activities, we will bring together Central New York\u2019s many kinds of people and work on building a strong, inclusive community that values solidarity, unity, peace, and justice. The Fest will raise awareness of what we can all do to make our community a better and more just place to live. We see this festival as building upon the success of the One World Flower Fest and Levitt AMP Utica Music Series in bringing our community together and intend to make it an annual tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Live music, food, films, arts, kid activities\u00a0celebrates progressive values and culture\u00a0Central New York Citizen Action will hold its inaugural JAM (Justice, Arts, Music) Fest Saturday, Oct. 14,\u00a0in Utica. It will be held at three adjacent venues from\u00a011 a.m. to 5 p.m.: DeSales Center (309 Genesee St.), Utica\u00a0Public Library (303 Genesee St.) and Kopernik Park (corner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[23915,23916,23914,23912,23913,23917],"class_list":["post-84961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story","tag-2017-organized-labor-charitable-giving-campaign-for-united-way-and-sefa","tag-desales-center-309-genesee-st","tag-jam-fest","tag-john-furman","tag-president-of-the-central-new-york-citizen-action","tag-utica-public-library-303-genesee-st-and-kopernik-park-corner-of-genesee-and-eagle-streets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-m6l","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/JamFest_V2-6-1.jpg?fit=616%2C515&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}