Guided Search: Human Rights, Children

West Mount Airy Neighbors presents Race Still Matters, Renewing Community in Mt. Airy

In this series West Mount Airy Neighbors invites you to learn, speak out, and discover new ways of building community. Together we can defeat racism, build better communities and overcome the caste systems that still shape our world.

What is the legacy of the Cold War? Three historians debate. With comment by David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

What truly caused the Civil War? The Director of The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University, the Associate Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and a Park Ranger and historian for the Civil War Defenses of Washington will discuss.

On Wednesday, October 30th from 7–8:30 p.m., a panel of historians will convene on Villanova’s campus for our next event in our Revisionist History series, “Revising the Civil War.”

Can an immigrant’s story be universal in today’s America? To find out, Emmy-award winning performer Kayhan Irani excavates memory and experience to reconstruct a sense of belonging. Using video projections, live performance, and humor, Irani embodies characters from her journey and invites the audience to share their own stories. IJ curator Alex Shaw joins Irani as a guest artist.

 According to ACTED.org, “The 15th of June is the global day of action against hunger and is an opportunity to learn more about the challenges concerning food insecurity and malnutrition globally.”

 Photo courtesy of ACTED.org

Playing household items — pots, cans, and spoons — alongside conventional instruments like guitar, violin, bass, and drums, Romano Drom is one of the most prominent representives of contemporary Roma (“Gypsy”) culture in Hungary. They play original compositions in the Olah Romani language in arrangements that integrate Tsollar, Lovar, Beash, and Romanian melodies with modern music from many parts of the world: Catalan rumba and Arabic and Balkan rhythms.

The Philadelphia-Serengeti Alliance Invites You to The Top of the Hop!

The Solarium, Top Floor oF Hopkinson House

604 South Washington Square, Philadelphia Saturday,

October 19, 2013, 6 – 9 pm

Please join us for our debut fundraiser and help us build our first of many wells in Tanzania! $35 Admission (in Advance Only)* African Food & Music ~

Despite mounting pressure from stockholders to discover the next blockbuster drug, R&D budgets are being reduced. Outsourcing drug discovery provides one solution, and China is an ideal partner for this. Among the benefits to outsourcing drug discovery in China:

* Instant market access to a growing local market;
* Lower operational costs;
* Access to new technology and its educated workforce,
* The Chinese government's financial commitment to the healthcare industry.