Holiday Wish for Education

Make a school girl's Holiday wish come true! Spend a small percentage of your gift budget this season to help girls attend school and upgrade schools with water, solar and sanitation. Donate here:
 http://wishes.causes.com/wishes/423335?bws=fb_stream_wish

December 6th, @The Mint in WLA, Bambino

This is a 'must not miss' music event, Bambino (aka Oumara) is playing tomorrow night in West LA at The Mint.

http://www.themintla.com/show/detail/50266

http://www.facebook.com/bombino.official

I've know Oumara for 5-6 years now and he has come a very long way with his music. Getting the visibility he needs now, he grows as a young new voice for the Tuareg people. He really 'rocks'!

October 28th, @UCLA - conference, "Gender, Art, and Social Movements in the Middle East and Global South"

Gender, Art, and Social Movements in the Middle East and Global South

Friday, October 28, 2011

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
California Room, Faculty Center , UCLA
details, RSVP, and location information here: http://international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9005

• 9:00am  - Registration and Film: The Dislocation of Amber
• Susan Slyomovics, Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA; Sherine Hafez, Women’s Studies, UC Riverside; and Carole Browner, Chair, Anthropology, UCLA
• Video Presentation: Talking Prison, Creating Art, and Making Justice; Based on Women Political Prisoners from the Middle East Project. 
• Panel I: Sudan Studies
• Panel II: Feminist Research in the Middle East
• Panel III: Transnational Gender Studies 
• Roundtable: Gender Dynamics – UCLA Graduate Students
• 6pm reception

thru Dec. 3rd, @USC Fisher Museum of Art, Posing Beauty in African American Culture

Posing Beauty in African American Culture



Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet. Throughout the Western history of art and image-making, the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture.
9/7/2011 - 12/3/2011
USC Fisher Museum of Art
823 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, 90089
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

more info HERE

October 9th, @African American Museum - Curatorial Walkthrough

Exhibition Curatorial Walkthrough (Art Tour)


The California African American Museum presents a bilingual tour of “The African Diaspora in the Art of Miguel Covarrubias: Driven By Color, Shaped By Cultures.” The exhibit will be ongoing at CAAM through February 26, 2012. Covarrubias was known for his caricatures depicting African Americans in the Harlem Renaissance era. His work also depicted Afro-Mexicans, Afro-Cubans and West and North Africans. Miguel Covarrubias migrated to the United States from Mexico at the age of 19; his early caricature art was featured in magazines like, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue and many more. This exhibition is free and open to the public.

10/9/2011
California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA, 9007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CAAM is located at 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 90037. For more information visit http://www.caamuseum.org/  

11 Day Trek to Los Angeles, carrying 50 lb bundles of wood on their backs!

Check this out: A brave group will set out from sunny San Diego on a 11 day trek to Los Angeles to do what no other group has done before them: carry massive 40-60 pound bundles of wood on their backs and take a grueling journey in honor of, and to bring awareness to, the hundreds of millions of women in this world that cook every meal over an open fire.

http://www.theparadigmproject.org/woodwalk.html

October 8th, @USC - Tales from the Sahel: An Evening with Baaba Maal

Tales from the Sahel: An Evening with Baaba Maal


Saturday, Oct 8th, 8:00p

at University of Southern California - University Park Campus: Bovard Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
One of the many stars to rise from the African continent, Senegalese master musician Baaba Maal has been making music for the world to enjoy for nearly two decades.

Before the musical performance, Baaba will be sitting with renowned music journalist and author Chris Salewicz to discuss his personal experiences growing up in Africa and traveling the world, his views on issues facing Africa and the African diaspora, as well as other assorted issues of the day.
Tickets & More HERE

IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, RENEW YOUR RALPHS COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION CHOICE. You get coupons and cash back too!


We have been blessed with some great donations from Ralphs Rewards every year, but we need you to sign-up again,... and if you did not participate last year, please do so now, it's a great benefit for the schools we serve!

 

Please Sign-up for a Ralphs' Rewards Account, attach it to your keychain and every time you shop at Ralph's for groceries, swipe your keychain bar code, or give them your phone #, and you will be helping us with our Rural School projects!
YOU MUST RE-REGISTER EVERY YEAR in September to participate. So if you were helping us last year, you need to do this again!

 

............tell your friends & family too!

TO USE THE RALPHS COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM, and add NomadHope as your sponsored charity, take these steps:

1. ENROLL here, just create a Ralphs Reward Account; INSTRUCTIONS here
2. Once you get your email confirmation, and you have an account (or just need to renew for NomadHope, just SIGN IN 
3. click on Services on top, then Community Contribution Program, Then ENROLL at the bottom
4. Search for us as '92117', or 'SAHARA'. We are listed as Sahara Solutions Foundation in Manhattan Beach.  (aka NomadHope.org)
5. select the radio button for us and hit Save Changes,  You're done!

Now every time you shop at Ralph's and swipe your card or give your phone #, you are helping us outfit schools for needy children in the Sahara.

 

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED YOUR REWARDS CARD ON-LINE start with Step #2 above, every September to renew your selection.

For help Call 800-660-9003 to get your REWARDS card number.

Members must swipe their registered Ralphs REWARDS card or use their phone number that is related to their registered Ralphs REWARDS card when shopping for each purchase to count.

 

 

Thanks!