Welcome to the web site for the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC)! Many thanks to Andrejs Ozolins for building and hosting this site for us. And thank you for visiting.
MRC started in 1987 and is a small, grassroots 501(c)3 non-profit organization located in Ithaca, NY. We offer a number of programs and cultural celebrations throughout the year, diversity workshops and trainings, and a lending library with resources on undoing racism and diversity education. Please take a look around the site, and feel free to contact us at 607-272-2292 if you have any questions.
Audrey J. Cooper, Director
Sarah Reistetter, Diversity & Inclusion Projects Coordinator
SHARE
WHAT IS AN ALTERNATIVE GIFT FAIR?
The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair is a fun way to bypass the annual stress of holiday shopping and “stuff” accumulation while honoring friends and relatives with donations to causes that fit their values. What’s more, the IthacaAlternative Gift Fair provides critical support for a diverse collection of community organizations whose work has local, national, and international reach.. Last year’s gift fair earned more than $66,000 for the participating organizations.
Come visit the Multicultural Resource Center’s table. This year we’re at the First Presbyterian Church.
|
The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair is sponsored by
The Center for Transformative Action
and Tompkins Community Action.
|
|
|
|
For information write to:
Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair
c/o The Center for Transformative Action
117 Anabel Taylor Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca , NY 14853
Fax: 607-255-9985 |
SHARE
First Peoples’ Festival – 2nd Annual
The First Peoples’ Festival will be offered downtown in Dewitt Park in conjunction with Ithaca’s Apple Harvest Festival.
The First Peoples’ Festival is a celebration of indigenous peoples of New York State with traditional music, crafts, displays and foods. We provide an educational opportunity for the public to learn more about the traditions and unlearn the stereotypes connected with indigenous cultures.
Opening Welcome 11:30 a.m.
-
Tadodaho Sid Hill (Onondaga) will give opening remarks
Performances & Demonstrations
-
Native Earthling Band (Friday, on the Commons)
-
Traditional flute music by Dan Hill
-
Young Spirit Dancers
-
Stories & myths by Tonia Loran-Galban
-
Basketweaving
-
Songs by Theresa “Bear” Fox
-
Lacrosse Demonstration & Sticks
-
Vendors
-
Native American arts & crafts, jewelry, drums, pottery, silver, music and much more!
Children’s Activities
- Cornhusk Dolls: Marcella Kane will teach children (and adults) how to make a cornhusk doll
- Home Depot: projects for children to take home
-
Gardens 4 Humanity
-
Amazing Pete: balloon fun for children 12:30pm-4:30pm
-
CU Professor Carl Batt & students: hands-on science fun 12:00pm-4:30pm
-
Face painting: for young & old
Displays
- Cayuga Share Farm
-
Colgate University Native Studies Program (tentative)
-
Lehman Alternative Community School and Akwesasne Freedom School project: Check out the veggie van on display, powered by vegetable oil and featuring designs by the students and children of the Akwesasne Freedom School
-
Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective: The Green Guerillas are a grassroots collective of youths working together to connect the dots between sustainability, pollution, prison and social change. Their biodiesel, solar powered, mobile media center will be parked at DeWitt Park on Buffalo Street, and they are listed as a stop on the CCETC Green Buildings Open House Tour. Visit:
www.guerrilla-griots.org.
-
Ithaca College Archeology Program
-
Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON)
-
Tompkins Cortland Community College Multicultural Affairs Program
The First Peoples’ Festival is sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center, American Indian Program at Cornell University, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College and Wells College, and hosted by Dewitt Park and the City of Ithaca. This event is made possible with grant support from the Community Arts Partnership.
DATES
Saturday October 01, 2011: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
LOCATION
DeWitt Park
300 N. Cayuga Street at 100 E. Buffalo Street
Ithaca, New York 14850
This event is free. For more information contact Audrey J. Cooper at (607) 272-2292.
SHARE
The annual Sister-Friends Celebration is a fun and festive event by and for women of all ages. Held Friday, March 18th at Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites, the event features performances by young girls, teens, women and elders, with a special performance by Poet Jaylene Clark. A Women’s Market with products by women entrepreneurs runs from 10-3, buffet luncheon at 11:30, and program from 12-1:30. Tickets are $20/person and are available from GIAC and the Multicultural Resource Center. For more information please call Audrey J. Cooper 272-2292, ext. 135.
SHARE
Join us for the annual community luncheon and celebration as we commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, January 17, 2011 at the BJM Elementary School gym.
Featuring guest speakers Reverend Nathanial Wright and Reverend Margie Mayson, local choirs and music from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm.
Speakers panel from 10 am -11:15 am in the BJM library. Join us as we listen to individuals from our community share their personal stories of the impact inflicted on them because of acts of hate, fear and ignorance.
Are you interested in volunteering helping to set up, serve and clean up? Contact GIAC at 272-3622 or MRC at 272-2292 ext. 135 to volunteer or for more information.
SHARE
