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Calendar of Events
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Lyndale Park Peace Garden, Minneapolis
5:30pm Music by Arden Consort
6:00pm Commemorative Tea Ceremony by "Yukimakai" Tea Study Group
Friday, August 6, 2010
Lyndale Park Peace Garden, Minneapolis
7:30am Ceremony of the Cranes - Donald Fraser, former mayor of Minneapolis, speaker;
"Sadako and 1,000 Cranes" told by Elaine Wynne and Renee Weeks-Wynne
8:15am Moment of Silence
11:00am Ceremony of 11 Bells - Junshin Students, Veterans for Peace, Women in Black
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Global Harmony Labyrinth, Como Park, St. Paul
7:00pm Nagasaki Commemoration - Junshin singers from Nagasaki, KAIROS Dance
For more detailed information about these events click HERE.
Previous program:
Saturday, April 10, 2010
"Disaster Aid in Haiti & Elsewhere: Good Intentions vs. Results"
Coffee with Relief Workers
Van Cleve Community Center, 901 - 15th Ave SE, Minneapolis
Speakers from the American Refugee Committee, Feed My Starving Children, and Haiti discussed recent work in Haiti along with best practices in doing relief work abroad.
Thank you to our guests who served as panelists at this wonderful program!
Eric James from the American Refugee Committee. (For more information, see: http://www.archq.org/)
Meghan Howard from Feed My Starving Children. (For more information, see: http://www.fmsc.org/)
Martin Elie, a pharmacist originally from Haiti who has worked for the following local organizations:
No Time For Poverty
and
World Wide Village
and also recommends
Haiti Outreach, another local organization.
For more information about SOIL, the organization featured in the Spring Newsletter, including many more pictures of their work in Haiti, see: http://www.oursoil.org/
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