The Ethnic Hoosier��..����.. May 2003

Published by the Nationalities Council of Indiana

 

You can find us on the Internet at

http://www.nationalitiescouncil.org

(for information about NCI, Indiana and the world)

 

President�s Message�.

 

Let's try this again!  One of the attachments to this electronic newsletter is an application for membership in the Nationalities Council of Indiana. I'm sure we have supporters out there who would like to be members, if for no other reason than to be able to take some pride of ownership in what we are doing!

The ethnic festival season begins this month with Cinco de Mayo. Unfortunately (due to the SARS epidemic), the Taiwanese-American Association of Indianapolis has canceled its second annual "Taste of Taiwan" on 11 May. NCI members are invited to a performance by the Taiwanese cultural troupe of aboriginal Tsou dancers that day, but seating is very limited. The 11th annual Russian Festival is at Clowes 18 May.

 

Check our website calendar for more ethnic festivals in Indy, including Italian and Middle Eastern Festivals (June), Celebration of India (August), German Oktoberfest, French Market, Slovenian and Irish Festivals (September), and the biggest one of all, our own International Festival at the Indiana State Fairgrounds 6-9 November.


Our special guest at the next meeting of the Nationalities Council on Monday, 12 May, will be the new executive director of the Hispanic Center. Please come join us!

 

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Did you know�.

 

Steve Zlatos has been confirmed as honorary consul for Slovakia in Indianapolis? He is an attorney with Woodard, Emhardt, Naughton, Moriarty & McNett LLP.

 

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has cancelled its annual Africafest? Held each June since 1994, the event has been suspended� for "two or three years" until construction projects are completed on the museum grounds at 38th Street and Michigan Road.

 

Two professors and 21 Indiana University students, 10 from East Asian Languages and Cultures and 11 from the school of Business, spent Spring Break in Japan as part of the combined East Asian Languages and Cultures and Kelley School of Business class "Japan Study Tour, Spring 2003"? To read more, go to the online newsletter of the East Asian Studies Center at IU: http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/newsletter/index.html.

 

El Sol de Tala Restaurant has opened a second location in Indy's Union Station? It's worth a trip just to see the hand-carved, hand-painted chairs from Cuanajo, Mexico!

 

 

In Memoriam�.

 

Tsuru "Betty" Bunnell, 70, died 25 April 2003. Born in Tochikan, Japan, she was an accomplished Japanese folk dancer, president of the Minyo Club of Indianapolis and a long-time member of NCI. Her husband, Bob, also an NCI member, survives her.

 

Emmanuel S. Zaphiriou, 90, died 5 April 2003. He was active locally and nationally in the American Hellenic Education and Progressive Association (AHEPA) and served as past president of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church.

 

May�s International Calendar for Indy�

(for more details about these and many other events, see the complete calendar at http://www.nationalitiescouncil.org)

 

1-3: 26th Annual Strassenfest. 4th and Cherry Streets, Terre Haute.

1-10: Copa Mexico de Futbol. Mexican-American tournament in Indiana.

2: Program by Deputy Amb.Harry Purwamto, Indonesia, MSD Washington Twp. 3: Maifest sponsored by Indianapolis Liederkranz. 6 p.m. - midnight.

4: Cinco de Mayo (Mexican)celebration. American Legion Mall, downtown.

4: Latin American Concert. Indiana State Historical Society. 7 p.m.

9: Syttende Mai celebration, Sons of Norway Circle City Lodge #5-614. 10: 20th Annual IPS Multicultural International Festival.Glendale Mall. 11: CANCELLED: "Taste of Taiwan", Taiwanese-American Assn of Indpls.

11: "Aboriginal Dance of Tsou" 2:30 p.m. Performing Art Center of Carmel, 575 West Carmel Drive, Carmel. LIMITED SEATING. Sponsor: TAAI.

12: Regular meeting, Nationalities Council of Indiana. 7 p.m., Willkie Room, Athen�um, 401 East Michigan Street, Indpls. All are welcome.

14: Board meeting, Indiana German Heritage Society. 4:30 p.m.

14: Stammtisch (no-host dinner) and program by Paul Ramsey on "The War Against German-American Culture: The Removal of German Language Instruction from the Indianapolis Schools, 1917-1919". 6 p.m. Athen�um.

14: Regular meeting, Scottish Society of Indianapolis. 6:30 p.m.

15: "Holy Land -- Whose Land?" by Dorothy Drummond, professor of geography, Indiana State University. Assn. of International Women.

15: Regular meeting, Indpls-Piran Sister City Committee. 6:30 p.m.

17-18: 9th Annual Pow Wow of Indiana Indian Movement, Clear Spring.

17-18: Voyageur Rendezvous, Grand Kankakee Marsh County Park, Hebron. 18: 11th annual Russian Festival. Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler Univ.

21: "Fresh Thinking about New International Realities: Global Terrorism, Humanitarian Crisis and the American Empire" by Edward Queen and John Clark. Regular meeting, Indiana Council on World Affairs.

 

 

 

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E-mail: [email protected].� Deadline: 30 May 2003