[Peace-discuss] Co-Sponsorship? Info on Puerto Rican Prisoners' Exhibit

[carol inskeep]

We were approached to co-sponsor this exhibit, which opens on May 7.  Ann Bishop is a professor at the library school who has worked closely with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago.  

Ann Bishop <bishop at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> wrote:I'm writing to see if your organizations would like to co-sponsor the
upcoming "not enough space" exhibit, to be held at the UI library during
the month of may.

the exhibit of their ceramics and paintings, as well as a replica of their
cells and info about their lives, commemorates the 25th anniversary of
the imprisonment of political prisoners: oscar lopez rivera and carlos
alberto torres. it opened in chicago this weekend and will tour 10 cities
in the u.s. and puerto rico, as well as other countries. it is presented
by the national boricua human rights network, and sponsored by the puerto
rican cultural center in chicago. we're very excited that UI will be the
first stop on the exhibit's tour.

for more information about the exhibit, see the events calendar at:
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/cii/

your organization would be listed as a co-sponsor of the exhibit--we
will print banners, posters, etc., in the next few days. we will also
acknowledge sponsors on the UI exhibit program.

i am happy to accept volunteer help (such as distributing fliers and
setting out a jar and exhibit postcards to collect donations, posting the
announcement on your website and mailing list) as your sponsoring
contribution. in-kind and direct support (printing your own fliers to
distribute and providing any small financial contribution - even $10 is
wonderful) will be a great help in covering basic costs for this
all-volunteer effort.

we hope to have a press release for the champaign exhibit prepared in the
next day or two for you to circulate.

current sponsors include: ui library, the community informatics initiative
at the graduate school of library and information science, el centro por
los trabajadores, the center for latin american and caribbean studies,
latino/latina studies, and vietnam veterans against the war 
(champaign-urbana chapter), ui office of public engagement, sisternet,
urban league, illinois disciples foundation, and others..

we will hold the open public reception for the exhibit on saturday,
may 7, from 2-3 p.m. at the university ymca. the reception will include
refreshments, as well as welcoming remarks from champaign-urbana and
chicago sponsors of the exhibit and a performance by 2
award winning latino youth poets from the prisoners' neighborhood in
chicago. 

thanks!

peace, ann

****************************************************************************
Ann P. Bishop, Associate Professor (217) 244-3299 (V)
Graduate School of Library and Information Science (217) 244-3302 (F)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign abishop at uiuc.edu 
203 LIS Building (MC-493)
501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820

Prairienet (http://www.prairienet.org) 
The Inquiry Page (http://inquiry.uiuc.edu)
****************************************************************************











		
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
 Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/private/peace-discuss/attachments/20050419/4c8abef4/attachment.htm