Events

Past Events

  • Redistricting for Lawyers

    Legislative Redistricting: Beyond the Political Hyperbole

    April 16th, 2019
    12:00pm - 1:00pm
    Dauphin County Bar Association
    213 North Front Street
    Harrisburg PA 17101
    This event is free and includes lunch but registration on the Dauphin County Bar Association's website is required.

  • Coffeehouse Meet-up for DTL Mapping Support

    Not sure where to begin, have some questions, or just want to map with others over coffee and conversation? Bring your laptop and join the Draw the Lines team at Biddle’s Escape on April 11th from 5pm-7pm for this informal mapping tech support session. Help to fight gerrymandering and have a chance to win cash prizes by becoming a Draw the Lines citizen mapper!

    April 11th, 2019
    5:00pm - 7:00pm
    Biddle's Escape
    401 Biddle Ave
    Pittsburgh, PA 15221
    Free

    Photo of Draw the Lines mapper
    Draw the Lines mapper experiments with redistricting
  • Draw The Lines PA Map-A-Thon

    A free map-a-thon with food at the Firehouse Restaurant in Harrisburg open only to The Harrisburg Harrisburg Internship Semester interns at the PA State System of Higher Education. Learn more about redistricting and the Draw The Lines PA legislative mapping contest.

    April 9th, 2019
    6:00pm - 8:30pm
    The Firehouse Restaurant, 606 N 2nd St, Harrisburg, PA 17101
    Free but open only to The Harrisburg Internship Semester interns at the PA State System of Higher Education

  • Draw The Lines Comes to Indiana, PA

    Come learn how to draw your very own congressional maps as part of the Draw The Lines PA educational and engagement initiative and contest. Cash prizes up to $5,000 for winning maps.

    April 6th, 2019
    11:00am - 2:00pm
    Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Room B11, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 441 North Walk, Indiana PA 15705
    Free

    This is a photo of a Map-A-Thon event at which you can start and draw your own congressional maps to submit in the Draw The Maps PA contest
    Join us for a Draw The Lines PA legislative Map-a-Thon on the IUP campus! Free lunch and help will be provided to get you started on your own congressional maps.
  • Williamsport Hearing - PA Redistricting Reform Commission

    Share your feedback with the commission to help them prepare a report for how PA should be drawn. Then visit with Draw the Lines to learn how to draw your map and enter our competition. You can come and go at any time before 7 pm to give your testimony.

    April 4th, 2019
    4:00pm - 7:30pm
    FCFP Philanthropy Center
    201 W. 4th St., Williamsport, PA 17701
    Free

  • Save Democracy, Eat Pizza

    Games were played, pizza and beer served and all left knowing more about gerrymandering and election redistricting. And most importantly, everyone left ready to draw their own congressional district map and enter it into the Draw the Lines competition.

    April 2nd, 2019
    6:00pm - 7:30pm
    American Philosophical Society
    104 South 5th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19106
    FREE. Registration is requested.

  • Roman Catholic High School Awards Ceremony

    Draw the Lines is recognizing honors students from Philadelphia's Roman Catholic High School for the work they did drawing congressional maps in Fall 2018.

    March 22nd, 2019
    9:00am - 10:00am
    Roman Catholic High School
    301 North Broad Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19107
    Free

    Roman Catholic HS regional honoree D'kai Duncan, with Rep. Mary Isaacson and Committee of Seventy President David Thornburgh