Momentum is building for the Too Many Victims National Candlelight Vigil.
All events will be held on January 8 unless otherwise noted.
Please check back for updates as additional communities announce plans to hold vigils and ceremonies.
Click on the name of your city to RSVP for an observance in your community.
If time and location details aren’t yet listed, you can still RSVP and have organizers contact you when details are available.
If your community is not listed, please consider signing up to organize a vigil in your city.
Current Candlelight Vigil locations:
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM - First Congregational Church, 540 South Commonwealth Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90020
Hosts: Women Against Gun Violence/CA Brady Chapters
Note: Event is being held inside main sanctuary. Candles will be provided. Parking is available.
Go to www.wagv.org or email wagv@wagv.org for more information including travel directions.
San Francisco
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM – Yerba Buena Gardens, MLK Memorial Fountain
Mission Street, between Third and Fourth Streets
San Francisco, California 94103
Hosts: Legal Community Against Violence, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Bay Area Chapters, 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence, and Youth ALIVE!
Note: Please bring LED FLAMELESS CANDLES ONLY! Arriving via Public Transportation: Yerba Buena Gardens is a short walk from the BART/MUNI Powell and Montgomery Street stations. Convenient MUNI bus lines include the 14 Mission, 15 Third, 30 Stockton, 45 Union and all Market Street routes. The CalTrain Station at Fourth and Townsend is served directly by MUNI’s 30 Stockton, with stops on Third Street at Howard and at Mission. Yerba Buena Gardens is also convenient to Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans and AC Transit downtown bus routes. Parking information: Yerba Buena Garage, Fifth and Mission, (2700 spaces); Moscone Garage, Moscone Center, (710 spaces); Hearst Parking Center, 45 Third St., between Market and Mission, (806 spaces).
Sacramento
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Meet on the Front Steps of St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L Street, Sacramento, CA.
(A Memorial Procession and Candlelight Vigil at corner of 15th & L, will follow)
Sacramento, California 95814
Hosts: Sacramento Brady Campaign Chapter, Nevada County Brady Campaign Chapter, Lutheran Office of Public Policy & Physicians for Social Responsibility-Sacramento Chapter, Friends Committee on Legislation of California
Note: We’ll gather at St. John’s at 5:00 for a bell-tolling and program; We’ll then have a short Memorial Procession, followed by a Candlelight Vigil at the corner of 15th & L Streets..
Santa Barbara
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM - Santa Barbara County Courthouse Steps, 105 East Anapamu
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Host: Coalition Against Gun Violence
Notes: Gather at the County Courthouse 9:45 a.m. at Anacapa and Anapamu–Rain or shine. Park in structure across the street on Anacapa. Congresswoman Lois Capps will address the community. Mayor Helene Schneider will announce a Santa Barbara city Proclamation and Supervisors Janet Wolf and Salud Carbajal will present a countywide Resolution. The ceremony will commence at exactly 10:00 a.m. At 10:10 the bell will be rung and the names of those who died will be read. Members of the Santa Barbara faith community will be also be memorializing this event in their various congregations on this day.
Santa Monica
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM – Corners of Wilshire and 20th Street
Santa Monica, California 90403
Host: Beth Shir Shalom Synagogue
Notes: Please bring your own signs noting that it’s the anniversary of the January 8th 2011 killings in Arizona. Please cite other victims of gun violence you personally know. Please bring your own candle(s). We’ll have little children with us from our Religious School so please keep them in mind with the language of your signs and the safety of your candle(s).
Walnut Creek
Friday, January 6
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM - Corner of N. Broadway and Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA
Host: Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center/Contra Costa Brady Campaign Chapter
Note: Please bring a candle or flashlight and make sure your candle has a drip cup so that we do not damage the granite at Veteran’s Plaza.
COLORADO
Denver
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM - Denver Health Pavilion A, Speer and Bannock
Denver, Colorado 80204
Host: Denver Million Mom March
Notes: We will keep to the sidewalk. Paid Parking available in lot nearby. Map: denverhealth.org/ForPatients/MapsandDirections.aspx
Bring signs, example: ’Enough!’, ‘Too Many Victims.’ Brief reading, lighting of candles and honoring those wounded and killed by gun violence. If you have them, bring flameless candles.
CONNECTICUT
New Haven
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM - Q House, Dixwell Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut 06515
Host: Stop The Violence For My Sake
Notes: Bring a candle to light in the name of your loved one.
Stamford
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM - Unitarian Universalist Society, 20 Forest Street at Bedford Street
Stamford, Connecticut 06901
Host: Interfaith Council of Southwestern Connecticut & Connecticut Against Gun Violence
Notes: Meet up at 3:00 p.m. at Old Town Hall, 175 Atlantic Street, and walk in procession to 20 Forest Street for our vigil, including remarks and prayers by clergy, victims’ families, public officials and police. At the conclusion, we will move outside onto Bedford Street to circle Latham Park with lighted candles (we have electric candles… please sign up so we can provide enough!) Call Kate at 203-415-1962 if you have any questions.
DELAWARE
Dewey Beach – Private Event
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington, D.C.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM - Shiloh Baptist Church, 1510 9th St. NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20001-3208
Host: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Note: RSVPs are strongly encouraged. This is an indoor event.
Confirmed special guests include DC Mayor Vincent Gray, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressman Jim Moran, and Chair of the Brady Center’s Faiths United To Prevent Gun Violence coalition, Jim Winkler. Program will include a candlelight vigil, as well as performances by the choir and a local youth group. Event will be followed by light refreshments.
ILLINOIS
Chicago
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM - More Like Christ Christian Fellowship Ministries , 8201 S Dobson Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60619
Host: Ray of Hope Center of the Arts – M.O.P.P. (Movement of the People for Peace)
Notes: Please bring photos and flamelss candles.
11:15 AM – The Faith Community of St. Sabina, 78th Place and Throop
Chicago, Illinois 60620
Host: St. Sabina Church
Notes: ”A Call to Nonviolence” – Guest Speaker, Elder Bernice King, youngest child of Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King, a nationally and internationally known powerful, motivating and life-changing orator. Elder King is a graduate of Spelman College with a B.A. in Psychology and a Masters of Divinity and Doctorate of Law from Emory University. At this celebration we will present Courage Awards to Ondelee Perteet, paralyzed victim of gun violence. We will also honor his mother.
Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, Pastor
Chicago
10:00 AM – 1:45 PM – New Beginnings Church of Chicago, 6620 South King Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Host: New Beginnings Church of Chicago
Notes: Prayer service for parents and families who have lost someone to violence. Both Sunday services (10:00 a.m. and Noon)
Chicago
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM – St. Peter’s Episcopal Church – Guild Room, 621 W. Belmont
Chicago, Illinois 60657
Host: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Notes: We will host a Remembrance Roundtable, inviting parishioners and guests to share stories of how gun violence has affected their lives and the lives of those they know, and discussing strategies for achieving and supporting enforcement of sensible gun legislation.
Glencoe
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM – Am Shalom, 840 Vernon Avenue
Glencoe, IL 60062
Host: Am Shalom
Notes: Discussion will follow the screening of THE INTERRUPTERS, a movie telling the story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed.
Naperville/Lisle
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM – DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church, 1828 Old Naperville Road
Lisle, Illinois 60563
Host: DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church
Notes: Candles will be lit to honor victims of gun violence and their families, followed by an informal sharing in which participants are encouraged to bring stories, photographs, remembrances, and discuss how future gun violence might be averted.
INDIANA
Fort Wayne
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM – IPFW – Rhinehart Music Building, 2101 E Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805
Host: Unity Performing Arts Foundation
Notes: The award-winning Voices of Unity Youth Choir will perform a concert titled Praise Celebration 2012. The organization is Unity Performing Arts Foundation. We will a moment to recognize the National Candlelight Vigil during our previously planned event. Cost for this event: Adults $15.00; Students/Seniors $10.00; Children 12 & under – $5.00 or free with a canned good donation.
Indianapolis
8:15 AM – 12:30 PM – North United Methodist Church, 3808 North Meridian Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46208-4067
Host: North United Methodist Church
Notes: We will have a designated education table for handouts in the narthex (gathering place). Handouts will be distributed to all adult Sunday School classes; and to our youth group (middle through high school age) that evening.
Newburgh
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – St. Lukes Lutheran Church, 4200 Epworth Road
Newburgh, Indiana 47630
Host: St. Luke Lutheran Church
Notes: St. Luke Lutheran Church has planned a candle light service dedicated to those victims of gun violence, especially those killed in Evansville (Vanderburgh County) and Newburgh (Warrick County), in the year 2011. The Chaplain of the Evansville Police Department and a Sargent from the Newburgh Police Department will speak. Reverend Tom Vanselow and Kit Holland and Jim Moore, Asst. Ministers, have planned a service of prayers dedicated to non-violence, silent prayers from the congregation, and special hymns for Sunday, January 8. Names of the local victims will be read aloud.
KANSAS
Topeka
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM – Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, 1515 SE Monroe
Topeka, Kansas 66044
Host: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Notes: The event will be held on the front steps of the school house.
MAINE
MARYLAND
Baltimore
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM - 5728 Belair Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Host: Koinonia Baptist Church and Baltimore Interfaith Coalition
Conowingo – Private Event
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston – Private Event
Lawrence
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Grace Church, 35 Jackson Street
Lawrence, Massachusetts 01840
Host: Communities Together
Notes: Grace Church is at the corner of Jackson and Common Streets. We will be in front of or to the side of Grace Church. There is plenty of on street parking on both streets which is free on Sundays.
MICHIGAN
Detroit
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Playground located at the corner of Beland Street and Manning Street (Between Seven Mile and Eight Mile Road)
Detroit, Michigan 48205
Host: NSO-Youth Initiatives Project
Notes: The event will be held at the playfield located at the corner of Beland and Manning Streets. The location is three blocks north of Seven Mile Road in the heart of the Osborn Community. The location is between the borders of Outer Drive Street to the west, Hoover Street to the east, Seven Mile to the south, and Eight Mile Street to the north.
Detroit – Private Event
MINNESOTA
Duluth
4:00 PM – 4:32 PM – 1 East Superior Street, Southeast corner of Lake Avenue and Superior Street
Duluth, Minnesota 55802
Hosts: Protect Minnesota/Northland Brady Campaign Chapter, and Peace UCC Church Peace and Justice Committee
Notes: Please dress warmly! The event will be held unless there is a blizzard. We will light 32 LED candles for the 32 gunshot murder victims a day in America. There will be a bell-ringing in memory of the Tucson shooting victims and some reflections. Bring your own LED candle if you wish.
Minneapolis
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Church of the Ascension, 1723 Bryant Ave. N.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411
Host: Protect Minnesota: Working to End Gun Violence
Notes: This event will look different from a candlelight vigil and is entitled “Remembrance of Life for Victims of Gun Violence.” Please bring a photograph of a person lost to gun violence – it may be a loved one, friend, neighbor or acquaintance. Photographs will be displayed on a birch tree, the Remembrance Tree of Life. Framed photographs can also be displayed.
NEW JERSEY
Princeton
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street (across from Palmer Square)
Princeton, New Jersey 08542
Hosts: Mercer County Million Mom March, Coalition for Peace Action, Fellowship in Prayer, Trenton NAACP Branch
Notes: INTERFAITH VIGIL — ALL interested in preventing gun violence invited to attend. Words of concern and support from various clergy, victims/survivors of gun violence, gun violence prevention advocates and Senator Frank R. Lautenberg. Enter small door on right front of church and go to Niles Chapel down hall and to the right. For directions to the church, click here. Metered on-street parking on Nassau and adjoining streets. Other parking includes the Princeton University lot behind Thomas’ Sweets off Nassau Street, the Parking Garages behind Palmer Square on Hulfish Street and on Chambers Street (pick up a $1.00 off coupon in the narthex). Reduced-price coupon for the Chambers Street parking garage is also available in the narthex. Limited handicapped parking on church grounds.
NEW YORK
New York/Harlem
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM - 163 West 125th Street (Corner of 125th Street and 7th Ave/Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Blvd.)
(Meet in the plaza in front of the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr State Office Building)
New York, New York 10027
Host: New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and National Action Network
Notes: IMPORTANT – This event is a march followed by the vigil. We will meet in front of the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building and then march across 125th Street to Lenox Avenue and then head north to 135th Street. The vigil will then take place at the Schomburg Center at the corner of 135th Street and Lenox Ave.
NORTH CAROLINA
Raleigh - Private Service
OHIO
Beachwood
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM – City of Beachwood Park (in the Pavilion), Shaker Blvd. East, between Green and Richmond Roads
Beachwood, Ohio 44122
Host: National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section
Notes: Please bring a candle. The weather is supposed to be great for January: 40 degrees! All are welcome.
Columbus
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Indianola Presbyterian Church, 1970 Waldeck Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43201
Host: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Notes: Victims will be remembered during Sunday Service.
Columbus
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Hope Alive World Outreach Church Of God, 2016 Minnesota Avenue
Columbus, OH 43211
Host: Hope Alive World Outreach Church Of God
Note: Refreshments will be served.
Fremont
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Sacred Heart Catholic Church,550 Smith Road
Fremont, Ohio 43420
Host: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Note: Victims of gun violence will be remembered at weekend masses. Saturday 4:00 p.m.; Sunday 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Lyndhurst
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM – Lyndhurst Community Presbyterian Church, 5312 Mayfield Road
Lyndhurst, Ohio 44124
Host: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Notes: Victims will be remembered at the 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. services.
Oberlin
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Oberlin Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 317 E College St
Oberlin, Ohio 44074-0354
Host: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Notes: Victims will be remembered during Sunday meeting.
Perrysburg
8:00 AM – 11:30 AM – Blessed John XXIII Catholic Church, 24250 Dixie Highway
Perrysburg, Ohio 43551
Host: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Notes: A candle will be lit and prayers said for victims at all masses this weekend.
Pastor’s Note: This weekend, people throughout the country are lighting candles as a sign of solidarity against violence, especially violence committed with handguns. There is a candle lit near the altar today to remind us that we can be a light against the use of all forms of violence….
Toledo
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM – Collingwood Presbyterian Church, 2108 Collingwood Boulevard
Toledo, Ohio 43620
Host: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Notes: Victims remembered at Sunday services at 9:15 and 10:45.
OREGON
Eugene
5:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Steps of the Old Federal Courthouse, Corner of E. 7th and Pearl Street
Host: Ceasefire Oregon and Million Mom March
Note: This is a very visible location to the public, but is also an OUTDOOR venue, so please bring warm clothes and umbrellas due to cold weather and chance of rain. Outdoor heaters and snacks will be provided. Candles will be provided, but feel free to bring your own candles and lighters as well. Local peace and non-violence groups will likely attend as well.
Portland
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM - Ainsworth United Church of Christ, 2941 NE Ainsworth
Portland, OR 97212
Host: CeaseFire Oregon
Note: Portland Mayor Sam Adams is the guest speaker.
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Love Park, 15th Street and JFK Boulevard
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
Host: Heeding God’s Call
Reading
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Reading City Park, 11th and Washington
Reading, Pennsylvania 19604
Host: CeaseFirePA
Note: Bring flameless candles only. If weather permits, the vigil will begin indoors and move outdoors into the neighboring Hill District.
Kennett Square
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM – Kendal at Longwood, 1109 East Baltimore Pike
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19348
Host: Kendal Against Guns
Notes: Mett at Porte-Cochere, walk together to Route 1
TENNESSEE
Chattanooga
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Olivet Baptist Church, 740 ML King Blvd
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403
Hosts: Stop the Madness National, Inc. and the Servant Leadership Christian Fellowship
Notes: Stop the Madness National, Inc. and the Servant Leadership Christian Fellowship (SLCF) of Chattanooga, TN will be hosting a “Too Many Victims” Candlelight Vigil during the SLCF’ 12 Day City-Wide Consecration Revival on January 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM. Please come and help us remember those who have lost their lives to gun violence and to pray for our country and all of those who have been affected and impacted by violence.
TEXAS
Austin
7:00 PM until 8:30 PM – South steps of the State Capitol, 1100 Congress Avenue
Host: Brady Campaign Texas
Note: Please only bring FLAMELESS ELECTRIC CANDLES. Open flames are not allowed on the Capitol grounds. Some flameless electric candles will be available for guests to use at no cost. In case of severe weather the vigil will be held at the First United Methodist Church at 1201 Lavaca. Please keep an eye on TooManyVictims.org and our Brady Campaign Texas Facebook page for more information.
Dallas - Private Service
Hosts: Greenland Hills United Methodist Church & North Texas Brady Campaign Chapter
VIRGINIA
Norfolk
Saturday, January 7
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – YWCA of South Hampton Roads, 5215 Colley Avenue
Norfolk, Virginia 23508
Host: The League of Women Voters of South Hampton Roads
Notes: This will be a vigil to remember those lost to gun violence and a community conversation to discuss various aspects of the problem of gun violence with an eye towards solutions. Please note that this gathering will be in the Hampton Roads Community Foundation Room at the YWCA of South Hampton Roads near Old Dominion University (not the YMCA which is in downtown Norfolk). We will gather indoors and weather permitting may go just outside by Colley Bay for our vigil.
WASHINGTON
Seattle
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM – Westlake Plaza, 501 Pine Street
(Downtown) Seattle, Washington 98101
Host: Washington Ceasefire
Note: Take the Union Street exit off I-5 in downtown Seattle and go straight for three blocks and north for one block to Fifth Avenue and Pine Street.
WISCONSIN
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