The Ethnic Hoosier...November 2000
NEXT MEETING IS 7 p.m. Monday, 13 November, in the Athenaeum!
WOW! We did it!
International Festival 2000 is now history, and we're ready to start on 2001!
We have successfully completed the 2000 International Festival. I thank everyone who helped with or participated in the Festival. We will have an in-depth review of the Festival at the next NCI meeting on 13 November. Please come to the meeting to share with everybody your experience with the 2000 International Festival.
(signed>Chao-Hung Lee, Chairman, International Festival 2000
Here are this year's Festival Award winners:
Culture Booth
Theme
1st place: Latvian Community Center
Runner-up: Indianapolis Minyo Dancers
Educational value
1st place: Indiana German Heritage
Runner-up: Swiss club of Central Indiana
Creativity
1st place: Barangay Club of Indiana
Runner-up: Taiwanese American Association
Quality
1st place: Minyo Club of Indianapolis
Runner-up: Estonian Society of Indianapolis
Best overall - Grand Prize: VASA
Food Booth
Grand prize: Taiwanese American Association
1st place: Congo Food
DID YOU KNOW....
- The Mikado, a Japanese restaurant and sushi bar in downtown, was profiled in the 23-29 October 2000 edition of the Indianapolis Business Journal? It's owned by Yu-Mei Lee and her sister Ju-Ping Erdelyi-Chi, daughters of a Chinese diplomat, who are scouting a second restaurant location near 86th Street and Keystone Avenue.
- There's been an explosion of web sites targeted toward ethnic Americans? The Wall Street Journal mentioned these in an e-commerce feature on 23 October 2000: AsianAvenue.com, Click2Asia.com and MiGente.com.
Chairman's Corner:
The year has come and gone very quickly for us and it is time to consider officers for the new year. I intend to have the new slate of officers at this meeting. For those of you that received the recommendation sheet for the new slate, if you haven't sent it back to me already, call me before Sunday Night with your recommendations.
This meeting also means that all remaining tickets for the Festival need to be turned in along with any money owed for advance sales. Make sure that someone from your group is present for this purpose. This will help us get a complete analysis of our financial picture for this past festival.
Speaking of the Festival, I will await the final numbers on our financial success along with the rest of you. However, from all other perspectives, I would personally consider it a success! That we were able to successfully put it on says a lot about your work and perseverance. Thanks to all of you who had a hand in this year's Festival. You can be rightfully proud of your effort.
Thanks again to all of you for your encouragement and help as we progressed through this year. I couldn't have made it without you. I made a commitment to many of you about working with the new slate to assure that this year will be as successful as the past year has been. I wish you all the very best for the coming year.
(signed)Chuck, [Charles A. Lindgren, CW4 (Ret), U.S. Army], Chairman, Nationalities Council of Indiana
Calendar....
2-23 November
"Art in the Face of Nazi Tyranny: Resistance, Death and a Living Legacy" exhibit of work by Mietje Bontjes van Beek of Fischerhude, Germany; library area of IUPUI Conference Center, Indianapolis. Opening reception at 4:30 p.m. 2 November with artist.
3 November
"America's Stepchild: The Unique German Relationship with the United States" by Frederick Kempe, editor and associate publisher of The Wall Street Journal Europe; 3 p.m., IUPUI Conference Center. Information: Giles Hoyt, (317) 278-1265.
3 November
" Family Stories : The Burden of German Heritage " by Frederick Kempe, 6 p.m., Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis. Information: (317) 232-1882.
4 November
"Good and Bad Germans: My Family Story on the World Stage," by Frederick Kempe, 10:30 a.m., Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis. Information: (317) 232-1882.
4 November
"Divali 2000": dinner, dancing and entertainment. Sponsored by the India Association of Indianapolis. Tickets: $35 adult, $22 student, $15 children 6-12, 5 and under free. Information: Mohammed Khan, (317) 297-4640; Beenu Sikand, (317) 328-8583 or e-mail.
8 November
"U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom" by Lawrence J. Goodrich, Director of Communications. 6:30 p.m. dinner followed by speech, Woodstock Club, Indianapolis. Sponsored by Indianapolis Committee on Foreign Relations. Information: Steven L. Tuchman, (317) 639-1210 or e-mail.
8 November
"The Civil War Sacrifices of Joseph Hotz," by Paul Brockman. 7:30 p.m., Max Kade Room, Athenaeum, Indianapolis. Sponsored by Indiana German Heritage Society.
9 November
Music from (European) Renaissance performed by Steven Rickards, counter tenor, and Dorothy Linell, lute. 7 p.m., Music Room, Athenaeum, Indianapolis. Part of Young Artists Initiative sponsored by the Indiana School of Music at IUPUI and the Athenaeum Foundation. Tickets: $5. Information: IUPUI, 274-4000) or Athenaeum, 630-4569.
12 November
Sikh Worship Tradition in Indiana. 9:45 a.m. - noon, Sikh Gurdwara Temple, 11010 Southeastern Avenue, Indianapolis. Part of Spirit & Place, annual civic festival of the arts, humanities and religion coordinated by the Polis Center at IUPUI. Information: (317) 849-7340 or website.
13 November
Regular meeting, Nationalities Council of Indiana. 7 p.m. Athenaeum, Indianapolis.
16 November
Luncheon, Association of International Women. 11 a.m., Lockerbie Room of Canterbury Hotel, Indianapolis. Andy Jacobs Jr., former 10th District congressman, will speak. Information: Sally Sebeckis, (317) 571-1602 or website.
18 November
Dinner-dance celebrating the Independence of Cartagena sponsored by the Sociedad Amigos de Colombia. Egyptian Room, Murat Centre, 520 N. New Jersey Street, Indianapolis. Information: Hector Perez, (317) 845-1398, Berta Torres (317) 849-2439, Alfredo Gedeon, (317) 547-4266, or click on website.
1-3 December
Old World Christkindlmarkt (German-style Christmas Market). 6-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Athenaeum, Indianapolis. Information: (317) 630-4569.
Deadline for the December issue of The Ethnic Hoosier is 1 December 2000.
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