Neighborhood Partnership Center

IT'S A CELEBRATION

CELEBRATION OF NEIGHBORHOODS

The Neighborhood Development/Partnership Center of United Way will be hosting the Second Annual Celebration of Neighborhoods on Tuesday, May 23, 2000. This special event will take place at the Franklin Park Conservatory, located at 1777 East Broad Street, From 6:oo to 9:00PM.

SHOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

This is a special time for everyone to come together and share what they are doing to make their communities better. Twenty exhibit tables will be made available for participants of the Neighborhood Partnership Center and awardees of the Neighborhood Empowerment Grant Program. Groups and organizations are invited to display newsletters, pictures, and other important information in relationship to their neighborhoods. The staff will be available to help you work on your displays here at the Neighborhood Partnership Center during special "display days" to prepare for the celebration. If you are interested, please call Lonnie Hairston at 241-3072.

Featuring Poetess and Author

Nikki Giovanni - Despite the dramatic changes that have occurred in American society since she roared out of the Black Arts Movement, Giovanni remains determinded and committed as ever to the fight for civil rights and equality in education. Always insistent on presenting the truth, Giovanni maintains her prominent place as a strong voice of the black community through her poetry and prose. Since 1968, she has inspired readers and critics and has established herself as a best-selling poet, author, and essayist. In her lectures, she speaks with great humor on her life and on the creativity in everything we do. Her focus is on the individual; specifically, on the power one has to make a difference in oneself, and thus, in the lives of others. "Do something with your life!", Nikki once told an M.I.T. audience. "You will find that what you have coveted is not worth coveting. There is a limit to what material things can do." The intensity and straightforwardness she conveys is apparent in all of her works and shows the depth of both her thinking and writing.

Also featuring at this event, Columbus' own Mayor Michael Coleman and a host of other special guests.

This event is at no charge to the public, and there will be food and fun for everyone!!!