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2012: The beginning of a new era, Taíno spirituality and you

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Apparently the world has not come to an end. But earthshaking changes are coming. We may not know what those changes are but we want to be ready. And this is one of the motivations for the event on Thursday, May 26: 2012: The beginning of a new era, Taíno spirituality and you . This is an event that's been in my mind since last year. That's when my friend José Muñoz and i started collaborating on several Taíno workshops that brought to the community some of the basic foundations of Taíno culture, the foundations that allow us to identify as Taíno and to actually go out and let the world know that the Taíno are still here. The Taíno, as many Native people, have a special affinity with nature and things that are not of this world. The Native people of this hemisphere developed knowledge conocimiento that we can only imagine. The Maya for one developed a calendar that is very particular and takes into account certain events that only a very advanced civilization could know...

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Arts & Crafts at Taller Boricua's Salsa Wednesday Taller Boricua - 1680 Lexington Avenue, NYC. tel: 212.831.4333 email: contact@tallerboricua.org www.tallerboricua.org. Directions: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd St. More information on Arts & Crafts send an email to: info@cemiunderground.com Union Settlement Association's 19th Annual Ethnic Festival - Celebrating the Cultures of the World Saturday, May 21, 2011, 11am to 6pm. East 104th Street between 3rd Avenue and 2nd Avenue, NYC. Vendors call 212-828-6052 to reserve a spot! You can also check their website: www.unionsettlement.org Loisaida Festival - Sunday, May 29, 2011, from 11am to 5pm in Avenue C, Manhattan, between 6th and 12th Streets. More info and vendor application at their website: www.loisaidainc.org
MEMORANDUM DATE: April 26, 2011 TO: All Puerto Rican/Hispanic Civic, Social and Community Organizations FROM: Teresa A. Santiago, Chairperson, Comité Noviembre SUBJECT: First Annual The Word/ Festival de la Palabra in NY This year marks the 25th anniversary of Comité Noviembre, CN. To celebrate and commemorate this very important milestone in our history CN will be hosting, co-sponsoring, and participating in a series of events beginning in May and culminating next year in November of 2012. Our first such event is The Word/Festival de la Palabra. Comité Noviembre and the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, Inc., in co-sponsorship with Salón Literario LibroAmérica de Puerto Rico invites you to the official launch and kick-off press conference of The Word/Festival de la Palabra on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, 105 East 22nd Street – 4th Floor in Manhattan at 1PM. I urge you to at...