Peace of the Action: 2010 Peace Awards less than 2 weeks away!
FOR’s 2010 Peace Awards Celebration — where Scott Kennedy, Medea Benjamin and Drs. Tashi Dolma and Tashi Rabten will be presented respectively with the International Pfeffer Peace Prize, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize, and the Nyack Area Peace Prize — is fast approaching on Sunday, October 3, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Festivities at our Shadowcliff headquarters, 521 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY begin this Saturday, September 25, with an Art Show and Sale Fundraiser lifting up the 2010 theme: Peace of the Action! Featured artists include Eric Laxman, Shawn Dell Joyce, Ned Harris, P.J. Flanagan, Natasha Rabin, Jim Morgan, Gretchen Kane, Ellen Mayer, Monica Ostrow, Sally J. Savage, Toni Quest, Chandler Roberts, and Joyce Kanyuk. Saturday’s opening reception is from 2 to 5 p.m. The art show and sale will run from Saturday, September 25 to Friday, October 8.
Continuing the unity in diversity lifted up in this year’s theme, our Sunday, October 3rd program includes performances by Naaz Hosseini, The String Jazz Society of North Jersey featuring Paul Speziale, and, embarking on the first stop of their U.S. tour, the Iranian music group Dang Show.
Tickets are still available, for more information, phone 845-358-4601 or e-mail jmiller@forusa.org or development@forusa.org.
