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More than 150 people from around the world broke bread tonight for the Humanist Center of Cultures' fifth annual Multicultural Thanksgiving Feast. The pot-luck feast has become a new tradition, welcoming immigrants to this country and exchanging cultures with food and laughter.
For more photos of the event, visit the DiverseCity Online web site.
Active leader in Humanist Center of Cultures in Queens; honored by New York Women's Foundation Nov. 6 as a Neighborhood Leader in immigrants' rights; worked in 2001 with a Queens- based community groups coalition called Movement for Peace . . .
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November 13, 2003
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Contact: Aaron Freimark, aaron@diversecity.org
For articles and other materials especially for the press (including downloadable high resolution pictures), please see below.
The Humanist Center of Cultures announces its fifth annual Thanksgiving with a multicultural food festival to be held Sunday, November 23 from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. The potluck celebration will take place at Sunnyside Community Services located at 43-31 39th Street.
Each year brings considerable participation by the city's diverse population and has offered food, dance and music from Africa, the Far East, Latin America and South Asia.
Says media coordinator of the event, Sushmita Mukherjee, "We organize this party every year to celebrate and appreciate the diversity in our unique community. Our Thanksgiving festival seeks to overcome the cultural fragmentation of our society and to salute the immigrants who have contributed positively to their adopted homeland."
Everyone is welcome and the event is free to all. We ask that you please bring a dish to share with others.
The Humanist Center of Cultures is a non-profit organization launched in 1996. For more details on the many neighborhood and international projects being carried out by the Center of Cultures, please visit our website at http://www.centerofcultures.info.
PRESS RESOURCES
Articles from previous dinners:
photo by Jurema Ferreira
Caption: You'll find clams, knishes, pasta, kimchi,--and turkey, too--at the Humanist Center of Cultures Fifth Annual Thanksgiving Feast on Sunday.
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Attendees at the Second Annual Multicultural Thanksgiving Dinner in Manhattan in 2000.
Photo by Aaron Freimark
On November 6, Yolanda Leon, Co-founder of the Jackson Heights Humanist Neighborhood Center, received a Neighborhood Leadership Award from the New York Women's Foundation. The New York Women's Foundation is "a cross-cultural alliance of women helping low-income women and girls in the five boroughs to achieve sustained economic security through expanded opportunities." Introducing Yolanda and other members of the Humanist Center of Cultures, the foundation remarked "in fact they live their mission."
We have videos of the event available for viewing on the DiverseCity web site.
November 4, 2003
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Contact: Aaron Freimark, aaron@diversecity.org
The Humanist Center of Cultures is looking for student organizers to help develop International Support Campaigns at New York area universities. The Campaigns are to collect school and medical supplies for health and education projects currently underway in Mozambique and Bangladesh.
A special presentation for volunteer organizers will be held on Sunday, November 9, from 6-8 pm, at the SEIU Building located at 101 Avenue of the Americas (between Grand and Watts Streets, 1 block north of Canal Street). People also invited to donate medical materials, which will be brought to Bangladesh on Nov. 11 and distributed directly to volunteers opening up free health clinics in 4 new neighborhoods of Dhaka, the capital.
There is special need for the following items:
Everyone is welcome and the event is free to all.
Says Center of Cultures director Nicole Myers, "This campaign is an opportunity for people to make a contribution at a international level. It is for people who want to do something to help others, and who also recognize that volunteering makes them feel good."
The Humanist Center of Cultures is a non-profit organization launched in 1996. For more details on the International Human Support Campaign as well as the many other projects already in existence through the Humanist Center of Cultures, please call 212-501-0118 or visit our website at http://www.centerofcultures.info.
