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FACES & VOICES. Faces & Voices Cultural Celebrations is Dubuque's ongoing initiative to create a more inclusive, integrated, and welcoming community. (1) Cultural celebrations include the Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, Diversity Conference, and CommUNITY Awards for Diversity Initiatives. (1) | FACES & VOICES. Faces & Voices Cultural Celebrations is Dubuque's ongoing initiative to create a more inclusive, integrated, and welcoming community. (1) Cultural celebrations include the Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, Diversity Conference, and CommUNITY Awards for Diversity Initiatives. (1) | ||
In 1998 Faces and Voices hosted a two-week human relations conference at [[CLARKE UNIVERSITY]]. [[DEAN, Cammie|Cammie DEAN]] director of Multicultural Student Services at Clarke, used the ideas generated at the conference to form a networking forum, "United Voices; United Future," at Clarke. Faces and Voices organizers used the forum to find that nearly 6,400 people attended some portion of their conference. The forum also fit into Faces and Voices priorities of continuing the momentum to get citizens involved in their community, bridge the gaps created by Dubuque's class structure and involving a broader range of people in planning future diversity events. (2) | |||
Among the groups brought to Dubuque to perform was Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, a Dixieland jazz trio. Sponsored by the [[DUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL]] and Faces and Voices, the group's leader Doreen Ketches, celebrated clarinetist and vocalist, had earned the title, "the female Louis Armstrong." (3) | |||
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1. "Partners and Initiatives," The City of Dubuque, Online: http://www.cityofdubuque.org/1978/Initiatives-and-Partnerships | 1. "Partners and Initiatives," The City of Dubuque, Online: http://www.cityofdubuque.org/1978/Initiatives-and-Partnerships | ||
2. Hogstrom, Erik, "Conference Forum Asks,"What Next?" ''Telegraph Herald'', November 20, 1998, p. 1 | |||
3. Gloss, Megan, "Red Hot New Orleans Jazz," ''Telegraph Herald,'' January 11, 2006, p. 86 | |||
[[Category: Organizations]] | [[Category: Organizations]] | ||
Revision as of 21:36, 27 February 2020
FACES & VOICES. Faces & Voices Cultural Celebrations is Dubuque's ongoing initiative to create a more inclusive, integrated, and welcoming community. (1) Cultural celebrations include the Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, Diversity Conference, and CommUNITY Awards for Diversity Initiatives. (1)
In 1998 Faces and Voices hosted a two-week human relations conference at CLARKE UNIVERSITY. Cammie DEAN director of Multicultural Student Services at Clarke, used the ideas generated at the conference to form a networking forum, "United Voices; United Future," at Clarke. Faces and Voices organizers used the forum to find that nearly 6,400 people attended some portion of their conference. The forum also fit into Faces and Voices priorities of continuing the momentum to get citizens involved in their community, bridge the gaps created by Dubuque's class structure and involving a broader range of people in planning future diversity events. (2)
Among the groups brought to Dubuque to perform was Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, a Dixieland jazz trio. Sponsored by the DUBUQUE ARTS COUNCIL and Faces and Voices, the group's leader Doreen Ketches, celebrated clarinetist and vocalist, had earned the title, "the female Louis Armstrong." (3)
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1. "Partners and Initiatives," The City of Dubuque, Online: http://www.cityofdubuque.org/1978/Initiatives-and-Partnerships
2. Hogstrom, Erik, "Conference Forum Asks,"What Next?" Telegraph Herald, November 20, 1998, p. 1
3. Gloss, Megan, "Red Hot New Orleans Jazz," Telegraph Herald, January 11, 2006, p. 86