First, tonight YAC is co-sponsoring the Town of Amherst Social Justice Project showing of Unnatural Causes. Join us tonight from 5-7pm at Amherst Cinema for this free showing of the eye-opening documentary about the causes of health inequality in the United States. Check out the preview below of the section being shown tonight!
Next up, on Thursday night from 5:30-7pm, the Capturing Stories Capstone Class from UMass Amherst will be presenting their completed projects at Food for Thought Books. These students spent the year volunteering with community organizations, including YAC, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County, the Amherst Survival Center, the Literacy Project, Nuestras Raices, and the Center for New Americans, and interviewing people involved with the organizations to share their stories. It's going to be a great evening, with 5 YACies profiled!
Finally, this Friday from 5-7pm is MAKING OUR WAY: the YAC art & media showcase! Join all of YAC at the Nacul Center Gallery (592 Main St, Amherst) to see some amazing artwork and celebrate an incredible year of programming.
There will be food donated by the Fresh Side and Henion Bakery!
This event is also a fundraiser for YAC. We'll be accepting donations at the door, there will be a raffle drawing for prizes from many local businesses, and many pieces of youth artwork will be for sale.
Just to introduce myself, my name's Ellie and I'm writing on behalf of the Global Peace Index (GPI).
ReplyDeleteThe GPI is a ground-breaking piece of research in the study of peace, which not only ranks nations by their peacefulness but also seeks to identify the drivers of peace. Now in its fourth year, the Index is produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank dedicated to the research and education of the relationship between economic development, business and peace. It is collated and calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Having read your work I thought you might be interested in learning a bit more about the Index. We're getting in touch to alert you to the fact that the next Global Peace Index will be launched on June 8th 2010. We'll be providing you with further information closer to the time - unless you tell us that you'd rather not hear from us again - but thought you might appreciate the heads-up in the meantime.
You might want to join us on Facebook too:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Global-Peace-Index/92288319748?ref=ts,
And follow us on Twitter:
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If you have any thought or questions about the Index, our methodology, or our organisation, please get in touch and let us know. We hope you find our research interesting and informative, and look forward to sharing this year's finding with you in a few weeks' time.
Best Wishes,
Ellie Kirby - updates@visionofhumanity.org