Archive for the 'Events' Category

Woohoo! I’m impressed with everyone who posted events this past week. I have news to announce as well. The events page was the 4th most trafficked page this week. So, this could mean a couple things: 1) People are actually reading my blog posts and reacting to said posts; 2) It just naturally got more trafficked; or 3) Damn it. I had a third one. Ugh. Oh well.

Speaking of events. Sumaya is attending the NASALSA Conference tomorrow. If you’re in the Bay Area, make sure to stop by attend some workshops. I understand there’s a registration fee, so take cash.

I haven’t blogged in a bit, but I wanted to let you know of an event you have to attend if you’re on the east coast. I wish I could go, but I’m stuck here in a snowstorm in the Midwest.

The event is called Ehsaas ‘07. It’s an intercollegiate dance show from which 100% of the proceeds directly benefit schools established by Asha Philadelphia in India - be it providing funds for educators, school supplies, or any other means for educational betterment. Asha Philadelphia consists of both Philadelphia area schools as well as other individuals who show an interest in supporting the cause; the students involved in organizing this event are from: Cornell University, Drexel University, George Washington University, Lehigh University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

The show itself will be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium on February 16, 2007. Dance teams from Villanova, JHU, Lehigh, Bryn Mawr, Yale, UPenn, SUNY Genseo, Princeton, Temple, Drexel will be performing; as well as a guest appearance by a capella group GW Geet from George Washington University and a group of children from the Dancing Shiva Performing Arts Center as well as Brick City Bhangra - a conglomerate dance team of students from various universities in New Jersey. The show aims to raise at least $10,000 to support Asha Philadelphia schools, but to also spread awareness about Asha’s mission, issues including child prostitution, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS, and others facing the more than half of India’s children living in poverty.

The show is organized purely by students and hopes to engage a broad audience of various different ages, interests, and ethnicities, uniting for a common goal - betterment of education and socio-economic change in India through the promotion of basic education.

In order to send 100% of the ticket sales directly to Asha Philadelphia supported schools in India, we encourage donors and sponsors to donate money to Asha for Education Philadelphia with a memo statement to contribute funds to administrative funds of Ehsaas ‘07. The more money we raise to pay our technical charges (lighting, sound, etc) the more money we can send directly to the children from our ticket sales.

I wish they have events like this to better education in other countries. Hope you guys can attend!

So since my post about events earlier this week, I’ve received a lot of emails in regards to how readers can post events in our magazines. Great question!

All you have to do is go to www.theculturalconnect.com/events. On the right you’ll see this…

I’m sure you’re asking, “What if I don’t have a login?” Easy solution. Just go to www.theculturalconnect.com/signup to signup. So, after you’ve signed up and logged in, you’ll see this…

And there you go! Click on Post an Event, and you’re good to go!

I’ve been busy tonite prepping the events listing that we post for The LatinConnect. I’ve always assumed that nobody read any of the events across all 4 magazines and was hoping to propose to Kaiser and Sumaya to drop the events section from our magazines altogether. So I just looked at the statistics: it’s the seventh most popular link. Who would have thought? Now, I want to improve it. The goal is to break the top 5 on a regular basis. I’m going to be enlisting all of your help. Give me some suggestions on how I can improve the events listing. Alright, I’m going to start finding things for The AsiaConnect.

So I’m still recovering from my trip to Michigan. Sumaya and I spoke last Saturday at the SAAN Conference in Ann Arbor. Let me just say something…This was the most organized conference I’ve ever been to. I was amazed by these University of Michigan students who organized the conference. You could really tell they put a tremendous amount of dedication, planning, and effort into EVERY detail. I met almost every single person who helped organize the conference, and each one of them told me that this event was one of the best experiences of their college lives. Special thanks to all of them! Especially, Sarwat!!!

I got to see some of the other workshops by the other speakers, most notably Moushumi Khan who we profiled a couple weeks ago. It’s great when you get to meet the people you profile. I think there’s always a sense accomplishment when we profile someone who’s been doing great things. But it’s even more rewarding knowing that the people we profile will be doing even greater things in the future. I can definitely say that about Moushumi Khan. If you haven’t read her profile, make sure you do and remember where you read it first

We’re going to end up profiling a lot of the speakers we met at the conference. Stay tuned for this…

Oh, and one more thing. If you’re a college kid reading this, make sure to attend the SAAN Conference next year. If it’s anything like it was this year, you have to attend.

I’m flying to the SAAN Conference in Ann Arbor tomorrow (technically later today…12 hours to be precise). I’m very excited about the conference. There’ll be a lot of great speakers that I’m looking really forward to meeting, especially Moushumi Khan who we’re profiling later today. Sumaya’s speaking too. Her mother and brother are flying out to see her speak. Aww…

I’ll be without internet for close to 3 days. This is not good.