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Diversity Calendar
01:00 AM EDT on Monday, June 29, 2009
Cape Verdean Community
“Coming Home” is the theme of the Cape Verdean Independence Day Celebration as it returns to the newly reopened India Point Park on Sunday, from noon to dusk. Sponsored by the Cape Verdean subcommittee of the R.I. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, the festival commemorates the 34th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Cape Verde.
Cultural, health and educational booths will be featured, as well as traditional music, dance, food, arts and crafts and children’s activities.
Exhibits based on the festival’s “Coming Home” theme will be presented throughout the day at the Cultural Tent by the Cape Verdean American Development organization of Pawtucket, the Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit of East Providence and the Fox Point Cape Verdean Project of Providence. For more information, call Joao Goncalves, president of the Cape Verdean subcommittee: (860) 874-2375.
Gay Community
The Philosophy Connection will meet Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. at the R.I. Pride Center, 180 Allens Ave., Providence.
Recommended books for discussion are Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts, by David Baggett, William Irwin, Shown Klein; A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Bring a snack to share.
Southeast Asian Community
PrYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement) will hold a membership meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the PrYSM office, 669 Elmwood Ave. For more information, call (4001) 383-7450 or visit www.prysm.us.
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