Thursday, May 6, 2010

“Create Huntington developing cultural center - West Virginia Public Broadcasting” plus 3 more

“Create Huntington developing cultural center - West Virginia Public Broadcasting” plus 3 more

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Create Huntington developing cultural center - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:38 PM PDT

Members of the Create Huntington  group had an idea a while back, to develop a cultural center. The facility would showcase the diversity that makes up the Huntington community. With so many different cultures in the area, organizers wanted to spotlight the unique attributes of each one.

 

Saba Gebrehiwot is from Ethiopia. She says she came up with the idea as a way of sharing her culture - and others.

 

"We from other cultures can introduce our culture to the local people here and they also can enjoy it and so we can create a friendly environment for everybody here," Gebrehiwot said.

 

Gebrehiwot says with so many different cultures infused into the area because of Marshall University and the medical school a place like the cultural center would serve as an educational center, keeping these heritages alive.

 

"The cultural center would bring different ethnic groups together and it would and they can enjoy what they're missing from home right here," Gebrehiwot said.

 

Currently the cultural center group is looking for an appropriate facility. Amanda Kolling is a member of Create Huntington. She says a cultural center would serve many purposes.

 

"We're looking for a spot that's going to be low cost for us, that would accommodate dance recitals, music recitals, classes for people who want to take a language class or learn how to cook, so it has to have kitchen facilities," Kolling said.

 

Kolling says they hope to get the program off the ground by the fall.

 

She says they want to give people in Huntington the opportunities to experience something different then what they are used too.

 

"When you realize that there are all of these people in town from all of these different backgrounds it really broadens your horizons, you don't really necessarily have to leave town to experience something like that and that's a huge thing," Kolling said.

 

Kolling says the cultural center in Huntington doesn't plan on trying to compete with the state cultural center in Charleston.

 

"Ours is more of a grass roots, individuals getting together, doing this on their own on a volunteer basis, individuals who want to share the food of their culture, the music, the dance and just being enthusiastic and saying I want to share this with other people," Kolling said.

 

Kolling says the Huntington cultural center will be for everyone.

 

"We have space for people who one want to teach a class and two take a class or take part in a recital or a wine tasting whatever it is, there is room for all these people and you could just come to one thing and you might come to lots of different things," Kolling said.

 

Kolling says that fundraisers will begin soon for the facility.

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Doha set to host Saudi Cultural Week from Sunday - Peninsula

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:28 PM PDT

 Doha set to host Saudi Cultural Week from Sunday
Web posted at: 5/7/2010 5:47:16
Source ::: The Peninsula

DOHA: The Saudi Cultural Week that will open here on Sunday will feature a wide range of events illustrating the rich cultural heritage of Saudi Arabia. The activities will continue until May 14.

General Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage Mubarak bin Nasser Al Khalifa has stressed the importance of the Saudi Cultural Week saying that it will be unique, given the cultural position of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The cultural week is being held as part of the Doha, Capital of Arab Culture 2010, celebrations.

Al Khalifa was addressing a joint press conference on Wednesday with Saudi Ambassador to Qatar Ahmed bin Ali Al Qahtani.

Al Khalifa, who is also the Vice President of the Higher Committee for Doha Capital of Arab Culture 2010, added that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the biggest country in the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Saudi people has a lot to offer in this cultural week.

For his part, the Saudi Ambassador hailed the excellent ties Qatar and Saudi Arabia are enjoying, stressing the role of culture in strengthening relations between the two countries.

Culture is one of the main tributaries that contribute to strengthening relations and cementing them, said the ambassador.

A number of Saudi artistes and intellectuals will participate in the week to reflect a comprehensive image of Saudi culture to the people in Qatar that embodies the authenticity and modernity, he said.

Culture had a significant role in cementing fraternal relations between Saudi and Qatari people linked by religion, history and blood and we are proud of our equal roots. Saudi women will have significant presence in the week, he added. The cultural week will feature exhibitions and folk performances. The exhibition to be held in Souq Waqif, will showcase plastic art, photography, Arabic calligraphy, sculpture and the Arabian dates. All types of dates produced in Saudi Arabia will be displayed.

Exhibitions will also be held at the Qatar National Theatre, Al Fanar Islamic Centre and Qatar University.

Folkdance and music performances will take place in Souq Waqif, and childhood exhibition at Youth Creativity Art Centre. Other events include a Saudi fashion show, poetry recital sessions, lectures on Saudi poetry and literature, as well as on traditional architecture.

Lectures focusing on Qatari-Saudi bilateral relations will also be held. A number of Saudi women artists will showcase for the first time sculpture works in a joint fair.

Dalai Lama’s Ind. visit to benefit cultural center and hunger ... - Indiana Daily Student

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:25 PM PDT

You don't have to be Buddhist to benefit from the Dalai Lama.

When he visits the Conseco Fieldhouse in May, both the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington and the Interfaith Hunger Initiative will share proceeds to help benefit their organizations and programs.

Dave Miner, volunteer executive director of the IHI, said his group is ecstatic about the upcoming visit.

"We are very pleased to be a part of this," Miner said. "Having His Holiness here is not a common thing, and we're glad to be a part of it."

In fall 2007, Jim Morris, sports and entertainment president of the Indiana Pacers and former director of the World Food Program, proposed the IHI. He challenged various religious groups to come together for a common cause, Miner said. The group now has more than two dozen congregations.

The IHI is particularly excited because this is the first large-scale event the group has taken part in, Miner said. The organization plans to use the money it raises for its student lunch program in Kenya, as well as to assist food banks and lunch programs near Indianapolis.

Currently, the IHI helps more than 2,700 Kenyan children get a free meal while in school, Miner said. With the money generated from the Dalai Lama's speech, it hopes to expand the program so the schools can be comfortably self-sufficient.

"It's disturbing to think that food is not available to everyone," Miner said. "One of the girls said to us, 'Thank you, I hope you can keep helping us. If you don't, we will probably all disappear.'"

Miner said there are about 18,000 students in the Indianapolis area on a free-lunch plan, and the donations from the event could help expand the program to the summer months.

Only one in every six students receiving free lunches in Indianapolis can access food provided by a summer food program, he said. The IHI's goal is to find out why these students are not getting to any of the more than 120 locations across Marion County where the food is available.

Miner said he's heard many stories that demonstrate how hard life is for some of the children.

"A kid last year got a good citizen award," he said. "Sometime later, he was in line for a lunch and got in a fight with another student."

The fight occurred because he hadn't eaten all weekend and wanted to be first in line.
Hunger has become an increasing problem since the recession, Miner said.

Requests to Connect2Help, an organization that offers emergency services regarding food assistance, increased by 41 percent in 2008 and increased again in 2009.

The TMBCC also has projects of its own that could be furthered with its share of the funding.

TMBCC director Arjia Rinpoche said it has plans to start a children's cancer hospital in Mongolia, a refugee camp in India and a Tibetan and Mongolian summer camp at the center.

"His visit will be a wonderful support for our projects," Rinpoche said.

The good news for the IHI and the TMBCC is that the revenue from the Dalai Lama visit is expected to be very high.

According to Lisa Morrison, the event's marketing director, His Holiness's visit to IU's Assembly Hall in 2007 was a sellout. More than $100,000 was raised on merchandise alone.

Ticket sales are expected to raise more than $250,000 by the time of the event, she said.

In 2003, the City of Bloomington made about $1.4 million as a result of tourism from the event and saw more than this total in 2007, she said.

Rinpoche said he's very excited to see His Holiness again and that he thinks the event will be insightful for the community, as well as all of those who attend.

"He's a great person, role model and mentor," Rinpoche said. "No matter the situation, he always says 'never give up' and is always searching for a positive way."

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The recognition of the cultural basis - Salon

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:59 PM PDT

The recognition of the cultural basis of race prejudice is a desperate need in present Western civilization. vibram five fingers We have come to the point where we entertain race prejudice against our blood brothers the Irish, and where Norway and Sweden speak of their enmity as if they too represented different blood. five fingersThe so-called race line, during a war in which France and Germany fight on opposite sides, is held to divide the people of Baden from those of Alsace, though in bodily form they alike belong to the Alpine sub-race.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community, we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

To this anthropology makes two answers.  vibram five fingers saleThe first is as to the nature of culture and the second is as to the nature of inheritance. The answer as to the nature of culture takes us back to prehuman societies. There are societies where Nature perpetuates the slightest mode of behaviour by biological mechanisms, but these are societies not of men but of the social insects. The queen ant, removed to a solitary nest, will reproduce each trait of sex behaviour, each detail of the nest. reebok easytone  The social insects represent Nature in a mood when she was taking no chances. The pattern of the entire social structure she committed to the ant's instinctive behaviour. There is no greater chance that the social classes of an ant society, or its patterns of agriculture, will be lost by an ant's isolation from its group than that the ant will fail to reproduce the shape of its antenna: or the structure of its abdomen.

For better or for worse, man's solution lies at the opposite pole. easytone sale Not one item of his tribal social organization, of his language, of his local religion, is carried in his germ- cell. In Europe, in other centuries, discount easytone when children were occasionally found who had been abandoned and had maintained themselves in forests apart from other human beings, they were all so much alike that Linnaius classified them as a distinct species, Homo Jerus, and supposed that they were a kind of gnome that man seldom ran across.

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