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November E-News from Multicultural Activities
Below are listed the upcoming events and activities for November from the Office of Multicultural Activities. Please contact Karen Roth, Director of Multicultural Activities, at kroth1@cocc.edu or at 383-7412 for more information. You may also view this newsletter on our webpage at: www.cocc.edu/mcc.
Upcoming Events/Programs:
brought to you by the COCC Multicultural Center
Student Club meetings in the Multicultural Center:
Latino Club, Wednesdays at 2:15 – 3 pm
Native American Club, Wednesdays at 3:30 pm
Gay Straight Alliance, meets at Foxes Billiards at 5:30 pm on Thursdays
El Dia de los Muertos
Tuesday, November 2, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm.
Multicultural Center, Campus Center
Food, Games, and Prizes! Join us for an interactive celebration on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead.) Learn about the traditions and the meanings behind the objects on the altar that we create each year in the Multicultural Center.
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Poet, Author
Thursday, November 4 at 4 – 5:30 pm, Pinckney Auditorium
In partnership with the Nature of Words, COCC brings this renowned author to our campus. Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13, it was after Baca was sentenced to five years in a maximum security prison that he began to turn his life around: he learned to read and write and unearthed a voracious passion for poetry. He is the winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, the International Hispanic Heritage Award and, for his memoir A Place to Stand, the prestigious International Award. Baca has devoted his post-prison life to writing and teaching others who are overcoming hardship.
Tickets are $15 for staff and students available at: www.thenatureofwords2010guestauthorlecturebaca.eventbrite.com. Select “Enter Discount Code” – type “2010_COCC” into discount code box – Select “Apply Discount Code” – Select “Order Now”. Bring campus ID to the event.
General admission $35 available at: www.thenatureofwords.org
Scholarship Workshop
Tuesday, November 9th, 11:00 am -12:30 pm
Multicultural Center, Campus Center
The COCC Native American Program and COCC Campus Partners, Financial Aid and the Foundation Office, will be offering a FREE workshop focused on Scholarships! This workshop will help you to locate scholarships and to have success when applying for scholarships! If you are looking for advice on a particular scholarship application, please bring it with you to the workshop. Refreshments will be provided!
Out in the Silence
A film screening and discussion with the director, Joe Wilson
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3-5 PM at Redmond Library, 827 SW Deschutes Ave, Redmond
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6-9pm, COCC Hitchcock Auditorium
Join director, Joe Wilson, and view the film, Out in the Silence. The goal of this film is to expand public awareness about the difficulties that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people face in rural and small town America, and to promote dialogue and action that will help people on all sides of the issues find common ground. Even if you do not know where you stand on this issue, please join us and be part of a transformational conversation to make our schools and communities safer for all.
Oregon Leadership Institute (OLI)
Saturday, November 13, COCC
Latino high school students and their parents from the tri-county area of Central Oregon will meet with OLI college mentors for a reception and interactive and cultural activities. The goal of OLI is to encourage high school students to set goals for their future, to graduate from high school, and to pursue a higher education. To find out more about OLI, please contact Jessica De la O Díaz, OLI Coordinator, at 541-318-3717 or jdiaz@cocc.edu.
Mary Youngblood, Live Performance and Talk
Monday, November 22, 4:00PM
Wille Hall, Campus Center
Join the Central Oregon Community College Native American Program in welcoming Mary Youngblood as she shares with us her journey to success in the music industry and plays Native Flute for us in the unique style that has earned her two Grammy winning albums in the category for Best Native American Music.
Multicultural Celebrations and Holidays
November 2 - Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican festival honoring and celebrating a reunion with ancestors who have died.
November 2 - Election Day
November 5 - Diwali - Festival of Lights celebrated by the Hindu’s and Sikhs in India as the new year.
November 5 - Mahavira Nirvana - Jains celebrate Diwali as the day of the Nirvana of Lord Mahavira, who established the dharma that they follow.
November 11 – Veteran’s Day
November 12 – Birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, co-organizer of the first women’s rights convention.
November 12 – Birth of Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i faith, in 1817 in Persia.
November 13 – Supreme Court held that segregated buses are illegal, 1956.
November 15 – Shichi-go-san, a Japanese holiday when prayers are offered for children’s growth. The ages of three and five for boys and three and seven for girls are celebrated.
November 15 – Day of Hajj – All Muslims are expected to make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lifetime as one of the five pillars of Islam. During the Hajj, Muslims remember and commemorate the trials and triumphs of the Prophet Abraham.
November 16 – United Nations International Tolerance Day
November 17 – Eid al-Adha - At the end of the Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca), Muslims throughout the world celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice). On the first morning of Eid al-Adha, Muslims around the world attend morning prayers at their local mosques. Prayers are followed by visits with family and friends, and the exchange of greetings and gifts. At some point, members of the family will visit a local farm or otherwise will make arrangements for the slaughter of an animal in commemoration of Abraham’s trial to kill his own son. The meat is distributed during the days of the holiday or shortly thereafter.
November 18 – Birthday of Sojourner Truth, African American Abolitionist, and Wilma Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee Nation
November 20 – American Indians took over the closed Alcatraz Island in 1969. By law, surplus land should revert back to them.
November 21 – National Organization for Women founded, 1966.
November 21 - Guru Nanak’s Birthday - Guru Nanak is the founder of Sikhism. Sikhism is still based on his teachings and those of the nine Sikh Gurus who followed him. Sikhs celebrate Guru Nanak's Birthday by reading the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, continuously from beginning to end. This is done by a team of Sikh men and women, each reading for 2-3 hours over 48 hours, beginning two days before and ending early on the morning of the birthday.
November 21 – Kathina, a Buddhist festival that takes place during the months of October and November. For 2500 years families have gathered to take part in the largest alms-giving ceremony of the Buddhist year. Friends, old and new, parents and children join together in a celebration on the theme of harmony. Also, as winter approaches, the supporters are checking to see that the basic needs of the samanas are being met. It is with regard to the offering of these requisites that this festival comes about.
November 22 – Nation of Islam founded in the US in 1930.
November 23 – Kinro Kansha no hi, Japan Labor Thanksgiving when people express gratitude to each other for their labors throughout the year.
November 24 – The day that the martyrdom of Guru Teg Bahadur is commemorated by the Sikhs.
November 25 – Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.
November 26, 27, & 28 – 17th annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival.
November 25 - 28 – Hmong New Year
November 28 – Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha - Members of the Baha'i Faith throughout the world commemorate the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the eldest son and successor of Baha'u'llah, 83 years ago. Baha'i’s observe the Holy Day of the Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha at 1:00 a.m., about the time of His death. There are no prescribed ceremonies but gatherings usually involve prayers and devotional readings.
November 28 – First Day of Advent. The word Advent means "coming" or "arrival." Advent is marked by a spirit of expectation, of anticipation, of preparation, of longing. There is a yearning for deliverance from the evils of the world. The focus of the entire season is the anticipation and celebration of the birth of Jesus the Christ.
November 29 – Thurgood Marshall, the first African American is appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967.
November 30 – Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman congressperson born in 1924.
COCC Multicultural Center Web Site
For current information about COCC, please visit the COCC Multicultural Center Web Site.
Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this newsletter, please contact Karen Roth, Director of Multicultural Activities at COCC, 383-7412 or kroth1@cocc.edu.
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