All events at 3PM in AC:
Mon Feb 28 - Conversation Hour: Focus Group on Democracy Literature
Tues Mar 1 - Conversation Hour: American Women's History Month Quiz Contest
Wed Mar 2 - Conversation Hour: TBD
Thurs Mar 3 - Conversation Hour: TBD
Fri Mar 4 - Film: "Real Bad Arabs" (about Arab stereotypes in Hollywood films)
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
AC Stand-Up Comedy Show!!!!!
This event got postponed due to the revolution. So now we are rescheduling it. The AC Comedy Club Show consists of AC members performing stand-up comedy acts for a maximum of 15 minutes for an audience of their peers and AC members.
If you would like to participate, you can come to the AC to sign up or just e-mail me your name, e-mail, and phone number (at rkaneriya@amideast.org). Please only sign up if you will definitely participate. There will be awards and prizes at the event!
The show will take place on Sunday March 13 from 1PM-3PM. You can come to participate or just to watch.
If you would like to participate, you can come to the AC to sign up or just e-mail me your name, e-mail, and phone number (at rkaneriya@amideast.org). Please only sign up if you will definitely participate. There will be awards and prizes at the event!
The show will take place on Sunday March 13 from 1PM-3PM. You can come to participate or just to watch.
Social Entrepreneurship and NGO Start-Up Contest
The American Corner will be hosting a contest to encourage the development of civil society organizations in Tunisia. We will host a Social Entrepreneurship and NGO Start-Up Contest.
For this, students will work in teams to work on and pitch ideas for new NGOs, associations, or for-profit business that serve a socially-oriented purpose or help advance social goals.
The teams will then present their ideas to an expert in the field of NGO management or social entrepreneurship, and the winning team will receive a grant of 400TD as prize money that can be used towards their idea. This contest will take place on Sunday March 13 at 3PM in the American Corner.
Spectators may attend this event to watch the teams' presentations and offer opinions on which team has the best ideas.
This will be similar to our business competition in November but for ideas that have social goals and the ideas don't have to necessarily be for-profit businesses although they can be.
Also, on Wednesday, March 9 at 3PM at the American Corner, Wiem Melki, an alumnus of a social entrepreneurship exchange program to the USA, will present a workshop on social entrepreneurship to help lead teams through the process of starting up an NGO or other social enterprise. Anyone interested in presenting their ideas at the final contest on March 13 should plan on attending this workshop with Wiem.
If you want to participate, please send me your name, e-mail, and phone number as well as those of your teammates. My e-mail is rkaneriya@amideast.org.
Ravi Kaneriya
American Corner Coordinator
AMIDEAST-Tunisia
Bridging Cultures, Building Understanding
For this, students will work in teams to work on and pitch ideas for new NGOs, associations, or for-profit business that serve a socially-oriented purpose or help advance social goals.
The teams will then present their ideas to an expert in the field of NGO management or social entrepreneurship, and the winning team will receive a grant of 400TD as prize money that can be used towards their idea. This contest will take place on Sunday March 13 at 3PM in the American Corner.
Spectators may attend this event to watch the teams' presentations and offer opinions on which team has the best ideas.
This will be similar to our business competition in November but for ideas that have social goals and the ideas don't have to necessarily be for-profit businesses although they can be.
Also, on Wednesday, March 9 at 3PM at the American Corner, Wiem Melki, an alumnus of a social entrepreneurship exchange program to the USA, will present a workshop on social entrepreneurship to help lead teams through the process of starting up an NGO or other social enterprise. Anyone interested in presenting their ideas at the final contest on March 13 should plan on attending this workshop with Wiem.
If you want to participate, please send me your name, e-mail, and phone number as well as those of your teammates. My e-mail is rkaneriya@amideast.org.
Ravi Kaneriya
American Corner Coordinator
AMIDEAST-Tunisia
Bridging Cultures, Building Understanding
Thursday, February 24, 2011
AC Comedy Club Show!!!!!
When: Sunday, March 13 from 1PM-3PM
Where: American Corner
What:
This event got postponed due to the revolution. So now we are rescheduling it. The AC Comedy Club Show consists of AC members performing stand-up comedy acts for a maximum of 15 minutes for an audience of their peers and AC members.
If you would like to participate, you can come to the AC to sign up or just e-mail me your name, e-mail, and phone number. Please only sign up if you will definitely participate. There will be awards and prizes at the event!
Where: American Corner
What:
This event got postponed due to the revolution. So now we are rescheduling it. The AC Comedy Club Show consists of AC members performing stand-up comedy acts for a maximum of 15 minutes for an audience of their peers and AC members.
If you would like to participate, you can come to the AC to sign up or just e-mail me your name, e-mail, and phone number. Please only sign up if you will definitely participate. There will be awards and prizes at the event!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Week of 2/21 Schedule
All the events below start at 3PM:
Mon. 2/12 - Conversation Hour: Civil Rights in America
Tues. 2/13 - Guest Speaker: John Berry on His Experiences as Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Wed. 2/14 - Guest Speaker: Mary Burns on the Impact of the Arab Diaspora on American Literature
Thurs. 2/15 - Guest Speakers: Neila and Intissar on "The Case for Creationism"
Fri. 2/16 - Film + Discussion: "Intelligent Design on Trial" (making the case for Darwin and evolution)
Mon. 2/12 - Conversation Hour: Civil Rights in America
Tues. 2/13 - Guest Speaker: John Berry on His Experiences as Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Wed. 2/14 - Guest Speaker: Mary Burns on the Impact of the Arab Diaspora on American Literature
Thurs. 2/15 - Guest Speakers: Neila and Intissar on "The Case for Creationism"
Fri. 2/16 - Film + Discussion: "Intelligent Design on Trial" (making the case for Darwin and evolution)
Monday, February 14, 2011
AC Membership Fees Change
Hello all. Please be aware that starting March 1st, the AC will be increasing its membership fees to 20TD/year in order to support the many new activities, programs, and services that we now offer.
Week 2/14 Schedule
Mon. 2/14 @ 4PM - Conversation Hours: Tunisian-American Relations
Tues. 2/15 - AC Closed for Moulid
Wed. 2/16 @ 3PM - Conversation Hour: Valentine's Day
Thurs. 2/17 @ 3PM - Guest Speaker: Radwan Masmoudi from the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Fri. 2/18 @ 3PM - Film: "The Golden Compass"
Tues. 2/15 - AC Closed for Moulid
Wed. 2/16 @ 3PM - Conversation Hour: Valentine's Day
Thurs. 2/17 @ 3PM - Guest Speaker: Radwan Masmoudi from the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Fri. 2/18 @ 3PM - Film: "The Golden Compass"
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