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Promoting Harmony Through Knowledge and Better Understanding
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Program - Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
The Aboriginal Peoples of this Land
March 21st, 2006
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Kitchener City Hall
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Cross Cultures Magazine & The City of Kitchener and our entire diverse community
join together to commemorate the UN International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
ROTUNDA - arrival, registration, passports, mingling reception |
| 8:00 am |
Official Opening - Native Elder Prayer
O'Canada |
| 8:30 am |
Dignitaries Greetings |
| 9:00 am |
Stereotyping ... Identity ... Diversity - Panel of University of Waterloo Aboriginal Students Association |
| 10:00 am |
Dialogue with all attendees |
COUNCIL CHAMBERS & CONESTOGA ROOM concurrently: |
| 11:00 am |
2 X 30 min Videos - titles such as "They Lied To You In School" |
| 11:30 am |
Discussion |
ROTUNDA |
| NOON |
Bring Your Own Lunch/ Browse & Mingle
Entertainment & Browsing Booths & Filling in Passports
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| 1:00 pm |
Cultural Component
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UPPER LEVEL ROTUNDA |
2:00 pm
-5:00 pm |
International Skills Fair
+++++ Network +++++
- Businesses meet extraordinary New Canadian professionals
- Explore International opportunities
- Speakers and Discussions addressing topics such as:
- Employers satisfied with hiring New Canadian Professionals
- Obstacles and Barriers faced by Foreign Educated / Trained Professionals
- Issues around Diversity, Racism, Equity in Employment
- Self Made Successful Business Immigrants
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COUNCIL CHAMBERS |
4:00 pm
- 6:00 pm |
Reforming the United Nations
- Andrew Caddell, Senior Policy Advisor, U.N. Affairs Section, Foreign Affairs Canada
Peace, Justice and Reconciliation after Conflict: Universal Rights
- Dr. Alistair Edgar, Executive Director, Academic Council on the U. N. Systems ACUNS
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MAIN LEVEL ROTUNDA |
| 5:00 pm |
Cultural Component |
| 6:00 pm |
Keeping You In Minda - Marcela Elizondo
photography exhibit / meet the artist Reception |
| 6:30 pm |
Silent Auction
money will be donated to Amnesty International's Group 9 (Kitchener) and the Th"paga Foundation
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7:00 pm
- 10:00 pm |
Peace Concert dedicated to Tibet
(view more at tibetanpeaceconcert.org
Guest Speakers:
- Lama Karma Phuntsok
- Professor Darol Bryant of Renison College
- Jean Becker, Aboriginal Services Coordinator at St. Paul's College
Musicians:
- Good Hearted Woman Singers
- John McKinley's Band de Jour
- Sarah Gropp
- Organic Groove Collective
- Frets & Ivories (Special Guests)
- Lisbeth Haddad
- The Opportunities
- Sandy Jrup
- Keith Thom.
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