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Generous support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs enabled the Armory to partner with Proyecto Pastoral, Public Works, and the Art for Incarcerated Youth Network to present art making classes for kids and teens throughout the Los Angeles. City Council District 14 neighborhoods of Lincoln Heights and Boyle Heights. From summer 2018 through spring 2019, nearly 450 young people developed their creative voices in 18 Armory Teaching Artist-led art courses. Thank you, Department of Cultural Affairs, for helping make this great program happen! Please enjoy these highlights from the 2018-19 program.
Art for Incarcerated Youth Network (at Central Juvenile Hall)
UN Women, through generous support from the Government of Japan through the Japan Supplementary Budget, is currently implementing the multi-country project “Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access & Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) -South Sudan Displacement and Refugee Crisis”.
The one-year project is part of a regional response that is being implemented by UN Women offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan, which are currently hosting refugees estimated at 537,504 (Ethiopia: 422,240, Kenya: 115,264) and internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to the South Sudan 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview, there are around 1.9 million IDPs in the country, 210,000 persons in protection of civilian sites (PoC) and an estimated 2.1 refugees in neighboring countries.
The overall goal of this project is to ensure that women and girls affected by the South Sudan displacement and refugee crisis lead, participate in, are empowered by and benefit from response and recovery efforts.
UN Women Kenya, through the Government of Japan, is responding to the needs of women and girls in humanitarian crisis by contextualizing the UN Women global LEAP flagship programme to promote resilience, restore dignity and provide durable solutions to women and girls within the humanitarian- development nexus in Kenya.
UN Women, through generous support from the Government of Japan through the Japan Supplementary Budget, is currently implementing the multi-country project “Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access & Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) -South Sudan Displacement and Refugee Crisis”.
The one-year project is part of a regional response that is being implemented by UN Women offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan, which are currently hosting refugees estimated at 537,504 (Ethiopia: 422,240, Kenya: 115,264) and internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to the South Sudan 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview, there are around 1.9 million IDPs in the country, 210,000 persons in protection of civilian sites (PoC) and an estimated 2.1 refugees in neighboring countries.
The overall goal of this project is to ensure that women and girls affected by the South Sudan displacement and refugee crisis lead, participate in, are empowered by and benefit from response and recovery efforts.
UN Women Kenya, through the Government of Japan, is responding to the needs of women and girls in humanitarian crisis by contextualizing the UN Women global LEAP flagship programme to promote resilience, restore dignity and provide durable solutions to women and girls within the humanitarian- development nexus in Kenya.
On October 24, 2017, we hosted the first annual Bayview Yards and Invest Ottawa Sponsor and Stakeholder Reception for an evening of networking and recognition of their generous contribution to Bayview Yards, Invest Ottawa and our innovation ecosystem.
October 25, 2021 - Here are the generous Food Gifts given to us from Aunt Ruby and Uncle Angel of Las Vegas, NV! They loaded up our Honda CR-V with all of this food bounty, and we thank God for these blessings from them! Thank God we returned safely Home tonight at 8:40 PM, from our road trip to Las Vegas, NV to visit family!
Generous support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs enabled the Armory to partner with Proyecto Pastoral, Public Works, and the Art for Incarcerated Youth Network to present art making classes for kids and teens throughout the Los Angeles. City Council District 14 neighborhoods of Lincoln Heights and Boyle Heights. From summer 2018 through spring 2019, nearly 450 young people developed their creative voices in 18 Armory Teaching Artist-led art courses. Thank you, Department of Cultural Affairs, for helping make this great program happen! Please enjoy these highlights from the 2018-19 program.
Benjamin Franklin Branch Library
For the theme of “Zero Hunger”, my work portrays equality and connectivity in society. Deprivation of basic needs is obvious in
the work, and the hand symbolizes the fulfillment of these needs. Rather than wasting food, why not give it to people in need?
That's precisely where the role of helping out others comes into play. The hand below, painted in white, symbolizes hope and
peace.
Division " Sculpture"
429 Kent Avenue 341, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Represented exclusively by Shelley Wasserman and Robert Lynn. See more eye candy on this home at www.halstead.com/11123349
A generous $2.5 million pledge from the Manning family to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation will fund a major research project to integrate leading-edge research and care for patients living with cognitive health issues on Vancouver Island. Partnering on this project are Island Health, the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia: ow.ly/s1p230fFzXj
UN Women, through generous support from the Government of Japan through the Japan Supplementary Budget, is currently implementing the multi-country project “Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access & Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) -South Sudan Displacement and Refugee Crisis”.
The one-year project is part of a regional response that is being implemented by UN Women offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan, which are currently hosting refugees estimated at 537,504 (Ethiopia: 422,240, Kenya: 115,264) and internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to the South Sudan 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview, there are around 1.9 million IDPs in the country, 210,000 persons in protection of civilian sites (PoC) and an estimated 2.1 refugees in neighboring countries.
The overall goal of this project is to ensure that women and girls affected by the South Sudan displacement and refugee crisis lead, participate in, are empowered by and benefit from response and recovery efforts.
UN Women Kenya, through the Government of Japan, is responding to the needs of women and girls in humanitarian crisis by contextualizing the UN Women global LEAP flagship programme to promote resilience, restore dignity and provide durable solutions to women and girls within the humanitarian- development nexus in Kenya.
Due to the generous donation from Mike and Monette Hopton of Fair Hope, Alabama, we also sent Jackton Wasiema, who is currently living in Nairobi, Kenya, three boxes of shoes, T-shirts, and medals. Boonies first learned about Jackton from Edit Berces, a Hungarian national Ultramarathon champion who also receives and disperses shoe shipments. Jackton and several of his athlete friends were dislocated by the civil unrest in Kenya last year. At that time, Boonies helped him out by sending shoes and clothing. Due to instability in Kenya, Jackton has been competing locally the last year and a half, winning events in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. With his proceeds, he is currently assisting 20 athletes. Here are some of the goals Jackton is helping his friends meet: keep them away from drugs and vices such as thuggery (his terminology); look out for means to help them get an education; nurture, groom and tap athletic talents; make them better people in the society; and empower them with life skills.
Please see the photos of Jackton and one of the training sessions with his runners.
Here are some highlights from Jackton’s resume:
Marathon best in France 1997 – 2:13:17
Half-marathon best in Germany 2002 – 1:01:48
10K in Rome (Vatican City) in 2002 - 28:35
Winner Budapest Marathon (Hungary) 2004, 2005, 3rd place 2006Winner Valencia Marathon (Spain) – 1999, 2002
Winner Hegau International Half- marathon in Germany – 20022nd place Chantilly Marathon (France) - 2000
3rd place Regensburg Marathon (Germany) - 2002
Other top four finishes in international marathon and half from 1997-2002.
Several wins in U.S. events in 2003 from 5k to ½ marathon
This CreativeMornings/Gothenburg event was generously hosted by Stendahls
Nora Lorek was our speaker.
This event was sponsored by Stendahls, Mailchimp, Adobe, Wordpress, Main Local Partner Gothenburg Symphony.
Techpartner Datanova
photos by Sina Farhat,Gunnar Fägersten Novik, Sandi Habinc
2019/02 - Symmetry - Nora Lorek
Text on bag saying: "Go ahead! Small plums/prunus picked from the tree today 12/8". On a bench next to a public footpath. Skarpnäck in southern Stockholm, August 12, 2024.
UN Women, through generous support from the Government of Japan through the Japan Supplementary Budget, is currently implementing the multi-country project “Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access & Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) -South Sudan Displacement and Refugee Crisis”.
The one-year project is part of a regional response that is being implemented by UN Women offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan, which are currently hosting refugees estimated at 537,504 (Ethiopia: 422,240, Kenya: 115,264) and internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to the South Sudan 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview, there are around 1.9 million IDPs in the country, 210,000 persons in protection of civilian sites (PoC) and an estimated 2.1 refugees in neighboring countries.
The overall goal of this project is to ensure that women and girls affected by the South Sudan displacement and refugee crisis lead, participate in, are empowered by and benefit from response and recovery efforts.
UN Women Kenya, through the Government of Japan, is responding to the needs of women and girls in humanitarian crisis by contextualizing the UN Women global LEAP flagship programme to promote resilience, restore dignity and provide durable solutions to women and girls within the humanitarian- development nexus in Kenya.
A generous donation from the Oatley family provides for this garage-cum-workshop at the Department of Engineering where student teams can work on and store their projects. These photos were taken at the garage's opening ceremony on 15 February, 2016.
News item in The Metro (London) featuring a generous gift to the Royal British Legion at Diwali 2016.
How unexpected circumstances can be embraced and turned into beauty
Vulnerability is fundamentally generous. It takes the first step of disclosure, in order to render it safe for those to unburden themselves and disclose their hidden selves in turn. It’s a gift in the form of a risk taken for somebody else.
How can we use our genuine selves and vulnerability to enhance the aesthetic of our work? By sharing her world of trauma and being extremely vulnerable, Mandy will show how her work became a success and brought her into the land of digital and VR. The beauty though, lies within the truth of being open and not very good at really anything other than that.
You are not casting yourself out of the clan for good by doing so, but rather we are just re-confirming our essential membership of the human race. It is something of a minor tragedy that we spend so much of our lives trying to hide our weaknesses, when in fact, it is only upon the dignified sharing of vulnerability that true friendship, and love, and good work and good design, can arise.
Wow, September has been generous with its stunning sunsets so far! But, we may be in for some interesting weather (at last)... Hurricane Irma was battering Florida this day with ferocious winds & blinding rain. We may actually also have a dose of our own weather here... Pic taken from San Jose, CA. (Sunday around sunset, September 10, 2017; 7:31 p.m.)
Weather update - Unusual thunderstorm outbreak for California for the week of (2017) September 10:
A slow-moving cut-off low pressure area was setting up off the SoCal coast & has the potential to bring some very active weather to parts of the state over the next 5 days. In fact, convective parameters for much of SoCal & the Central Coast are impressive, with mid-level instability, sufficient column water vapor, and even large-scale ascent forced by diffluent flow east of the offshore low. With all of these ingredients in place, numerous t-storms were likely to develop over the region. This could be a pretty active weather week for Cali even in places that rarely see this kind of vigorous t-storm activity. On Monday & Tuesday, the storm threat was to shift northward to encompass the rest of Cali even including the Bay Area! T-storms may occur over much of NorCal as moisture & instability was to be present virtually everywhere. This sort of weather setup, with a fairly deep offshore cut-off low & modest amounts of late monsoonal moisture, aligns with the sort of pattern that has historically caused spectacular early-autumn lightning shows over the state! By later next week, the cut-off low was to finally move inland and perhaps bring a final round of isolated showers & t-storms to a fairly broad area (perhaps even the coast), though coverage & intensity should be less than earlier in the week. Looking ahead, quieter weather conditions would likely return.
A big thank you to the participants and generous donors of the first ESCP Europe Fundraising Gala in London last week. An impressive £220,000 was raised which will contribute greatly to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme.
Over 100 guests gathered at the Four Seasons Park Lane for a wonderful evening sponsored by Ondra Partners and New End Associates. A cocktail reception was offered, serving champagne premier cru Frerejean Freres, and was followed by a gourmet autumn dinner.
The auction, led by Adrian Biddell, spurred great interest for the wonderful lots donated by Pierre Guénant (72), Olivia de Posson (06), Jean-Pierre Raffarin (72), Christian Marti (93), and W. Salamoon & Sons.
Around 15 alumni pledged their support to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme for the equivalent of eight years of study or a total amount of £120,000.
This unprecedented mobilisation demonstrates the unity and dynamism of the ESCP Europe alumni network. It also shows its commitment to support the School's growing momentum, forging a path to become the number one business school in Europe with a truly global reach.
On behalf of the scholarship students and all the ESCP Europe community, thank you!
A girl in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince enjoys safe water for the first time since the January 12 earthquake.
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance
This image forms part of the digitised photographs of the Ross and Pat Craig Collection. Ross Craig (1926-2012) was a local historian born in Stockton and dedicated much of his life promoting and conserving the history of Stockton, NSW. He possessed a wealth of knowledge about the suburb and was a founding member of the Stockton Historical Society and co-editor of its magazine. Pat Craig supported her husband’s passion for history, and together they made a great contribution to the Stockton and Newcastle communities. We thank the Craig Family and Stockton Historical Society who have kindly given Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, access to the collection and allowed us to publish the images. Thanks also to Vera Deacon for her liaison in attaining this important collection.
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Yesterday was a very good mail day thanks to bookbird1, Sally flickr.com/photos/10931699@N06/ ....a wonderful surprise of a mail day, a mail day filled with sweet pictures, fun stickers, a postcard that spoke to me very directly (It's just become a part of my everyday life" - this woman was talking about her obsession with costumes...but regular visitors will know about my breakfast obsession...which "has just become part of my everyday life"!), and there were sprouting seeds....so many lovely sprouting seeds.... I made a simple comment on one of my photos about how small cress is here in Germany and Sally so sweetly offered to send me some....but not just mustard and cress seeds did I receive, ooooohhhhh noooooo! I also received wonderful broccoli seeds and red cabbage seeds.... we're going to compare notes on our sprouting escapades. There was also a beautiful plate for my breakfast....this will be appearing in a breakfast near you very soon..... THANK YOU SALLY...you are so sweet and kind and generous.
On May 9 and 10 the Foundation hosted a donor recognition event for the first time since 2019. Donors were invited to an inspiring evening with student ambassadors who are award, bursary and scholarship recipients.
Love Song
Rainer Marie Rilke
How shall I hold on to my soul, so that
it does not touch yours? How shall I lift
it gently up over you on to other things?
I would so very much like to tuck it away
among long lost objects in the dark,
in some quiet, unknown place, somewhere
which remains motionless when your depths resound.
And yet everything which touches us, you and me,
takes us together like a single bow,
drawing out from two strings but one voice.
On which instrument are we strung?
And which violinist holds us in his hand?
O sweetest of songs.