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Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing Festival features Afro-Brazilian Music and Dance! Details:

Friday, July 21st, 2006
Optional dance lesson from 6:30 to 7:30 PM
Live Music from 7:30 to 10 PM

Come and enjoy a night of Afro-Brazilian music with a mix of Brazilian pop, samba, funk, hip-hop, reggae, salsa and merengue. Also showcasing Afro-Brazilian martial arts dances like capoeira and maculele. It’s free to listen to music and dance on the plaza. You can also choose to purchase $15 tickets for lessons and access to the dance floor.

Read more about Midsummer Night Swing here!

From Policy Debate and Advocay in NYC:

As some of you may know I am the curriculum director at the Women’s Debate Institute. The Women’s Debate Institute is a four day workshop for high school girls. It is a chance for high school girls to develop friendships with other female debaters from around the country, while learning debate and college prep skills.

One of the camp’s focuses is college preparation. We teach girls about the application process, scholarship opportunities, and try to connect them with college debate coaches. For more information on The Women’s Debate Institute see: http://www.womensdebateinstitute.org.

How You Can Help:
Ideally we would like to take the time to talk with each girl about her thoughts and needs when it comes to college, yet four days does award us that time. I would like to give each camper a female college mentor. This mentor could be a coach, graduate assistant or debater of any type.

What Type of Commitment You Would Be Making:
Being a mentor would occupy less than 5 hours of this upcoming school year. You would contact your mentee (either by phone or email) and talk to her about college debate, maybe give her advice about debate arguments, college applications and/or connect her with college coaches she may be too intimated to contact herself.

How to be a Mentor:
If this important service is something you would like to be a part of, all you have to do is send me an email with the following information:

1. Name
2. Institution of affiliation
3. Institution location (Miami, Santa Clara etc.)
4. Place you call home if different then above
5. Relationship to debate (coach, 2 year debater, director etc.)
6. Types of debate you are affiliated or familiar with (LD, policy etc.)
7. Best way to contact you in mid to late august (cell phone, email etc)
8. Any other information that might help me match you with a mentee

In mid to late August I will contact you with the name and some information about your mentee.

On behalf of the Women’s Debate Institute thank you for taking the time to consider being a mentor. If you have any questions please feel free to
contact me.

Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre
The University of Western Washington

From the Center for Career Education:

Idealism in Action Forums
Thursday, June 15th, 2006, 3 to 5 PM
Various Locations on Campus

Idealism in Action Forums (IDA’s) will provide opportunities for national, local and City Year alumni leaders who are creating positive social change in a variety of sectors, including government, non-profit, and business, to share their insight with City Year corps members and other alumni. Leaders will share their experience as agents for change and discuss issues in depth. Previous IDA topics have included education, South Africa, social entrepreneurship, and youth development.

Idealism in Action Forum Topics:
Innovations in Education
Local & State Government
Social Entrepreneurship
Running a Social Enterprise
Responding to Global Issues of Poverty and Conflict
Renewing Our Neighborhoods: The Future of American Cities
Women and Leadership
Speak Up, Act Out, Sing On: Changing the World Through the Arts

Visit this site to sign up or to find out more information.

From the Center for Career Education:

The Global Forum on Service, Democracy, and Reconciliation
Sponsored by Citigroup
Thursday, June 15th, 2006, 7 to 9 PM
Francis A. Levien Gymnasium in the Dodge Physical Fitness Center

Featuring:
William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
Jim Wolfensohn, Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Citigroup Inc.

The Global Forum will offer participants the unique opportunity to learn from the perspectives of prominent world leaders on some of the most critical issues facing citizens of the world today: poverty, democracy, religious and racial divides, and HIV/AIDS and the role citizen service can play in addressing these issues. Hard-hitting remarks from influential leaders of diverse sectors will provide context for these difficult issues, challenging all in attendance to work towards their solutions. Audience members–especially the 1,100 City Year corps members–will be encouraged to participate in this important dialogue through a question and answer session that concludes the program. The event will also feature the presentation of City Year’s highest honor, the Lifetime of Idealism Award.

RSVP or for more info.