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You Give + Others Receive = Holiday Dreams

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Please join us this Monday after work for our 3rd Annual Young
Professionals Holiday Dreams Benefit on behalf of the United Cerebral
Palsy of New York City. This is the perfect opportunity to mix and
mingle with like-minded professionals while giving back to a great
cause. There will be fun activities such as network games, raffles,
and a silent auction (please see highlights of secured items below).

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be provided.

Live performance by Rob Murat whose music video is currently in
rotation on VH1, MTV, and BETJ.

Secured Auction and Raffle Items:

– A walk-on role for an upcoming Tyler Perry feature film,

– Two(2) roundtrip tickets to any Southwest Airlines destination,

– A signature designer dress by Mataano,

– One Premium MAC Cosmetics Make-Up Collection basket,

– Fine Bvlgari BLV Fragrances for Men & Women,

– Gift Certificate for a day of true relaxation at Oasis Day Spa,

– Assorted brands of male and female products gift baskets provided by Macys,

– Apple iPod Nano,

– Two(2) KNICKS Basketball Tickets,

– World Champion Yankees memorabilia,…

Plus much, much more.

Purchase Your Tickets online Today!!!

Please note: If you choose to bring a $25 gift certificate, it will be
your fee for admission.

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Dec. 1: President Barack Obama explains his decision to send 30,000
U.S. troops Afghanistan, to keep pressure on al-Qaida, preventing
further acts of terror from being committed and progress from being
pushed backward. Watch his entire speech.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34209585#34209585

The NEXT New York Conversation: Sonia Sanchez on World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 at 07:00 PM
Duration: 2 hours
Tickets: $15

The Greene Space, 44 Charlton at Varick, NYC

Tickets can be purchased through http://www.wnyc.org/thegreenespace

Twitter Map : 44 Charlton St: http://schmap.it/9rc5d0

Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she
roars, and when she sleeps, other creatures walk gingerly.
–Maya Angelou

Faced with the fierce urgency of now and the growing number of African
Americans who come face to face with the HIV/AIDS pandemic,
award-winning poet and activist Sonia Sanchez does what she does best:
challenge political and community thought with the power of the word.
Does Your House Have Lions (nominated for the 1998 National Book
Critics Circle Award for Poetry), written by Sanchez, is an epic poem
that explores the life of Sonia Sanchez’s brother who left the South
for New York, immersed himself in the city’s gay subculture, and
became a vicitim of AIDS in the first years of the pandemic. Sanchez
describes her brother’s alienation from his family and his illness and
death from AIDS with her characteristic tenderness. This brave epic
poem shatters silences surrounding gay sexuality in African-American
families. This work will be performed by Sanchez and accompanied by
luminaries from the jazz world, including Odean Pope on saxophone,
Kenny Gates on keyboard and Lee Smith on bass.

Sanchez will be joined by Brooklyn-based dancer/choreographer Ronald
K. Brown, founder of Evidence.

The work will be followed by a discussion moderated by Esther Armah.
Ms. Armah is an author, playwright, radio host and award-winning
international journalist. She has worked in print, radio and
television in the UK, U.S. and Africa. On radio in London she worked
with the BBC as an investigative reporter, a documentary maker and a
radio host. As a reporter and journalist she has traveled and worked
in London, Washington, Philadelphia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria,
Kenya and Lesotho. Ms. Armah and Ms. Sanchez will by joined by Dr.
Monica Sweeney, Assistant Commissioner for HIV/AIDS for the New York
City Health Department; and Phill Wilson of the Black AIDS Institute.

Don’t just sit there do something!

Did you know:

It costs around 40 cents a day for the 2 pills that are needed to help
keep someone with HIV alive.

33mm people in world have HIV. 22mm live in Africa.

You and your mobile phone can make a difference. Donate $5 to Keep a
Child Alive and help fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.