UPCOMING EVENTS

This year’s events for 2007 spot light are on Haiti .  Please review the dates of upcoming events for this celebration and attend as many as you can.

Friday June 1, 2007                    Press Conference at the Georgia State Capitol

12:00 Noon                                206 Washington Street

6:00 -10:00 pm                          Opening Reception, City Hall Atrium

                                                55 Trinity Street SW , Atlanta

Saturday, June 2                        Gospel fest, Cathedral of the Holy Spirit

6:00 pm                                    4650 Flat Shoals Parkway , Decatur

6:00 pm                                    Caribbean Cultural Presentation

                                                Venue:  Royal Hall Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross

                                                2005 Columbia Place Decatur

Friday June 8                             Symposium Crossing Cultures

7:00 pm                                    Caribbean Music and the American South

                                                Venue:  Auburn Ave. Research Library on African

                                                American Culture and History

101 Auburn Avenue Library, Downtown

Saturday June 9                         Interfaith Celebration & Reception

                                                Theme:  “The many faiths of the Caribbean

                                                Venue: Royal Hall, 2005 Columbia Place , Decatur

Saturday, June 16                      Forum at the State Capitol

3:00 – 5:00 pm                          206 Washington Street Atlanta

12:00 pm – 9:00 pm                   2^nd Symposium on Haiti bringing Haitians and friends of Haiti together

Thursday, June 21                      Meet and Greet and Caribbean Art Show

6:30 – 9:30 pm                          City Hall East, Ponce de Leon Ave , Atlanta

Saturday, June 23                      Business Opportunities Seminar

10:00 am – 12:00 noon               Clark Atlanta University

                                                223 James P. Brawley Drive, SW Atlanta

Saturday, June 30                      Closing Awards Dinner and Dance

7:30 pm

There will also be ongoing activities i.e. national essay writing contest, national student leadership  as well as other events around town including plays, films, food tasting all 4’s match June 17 Brooke Atl. Sports Assoc. and sporting events.

This announcement is about the event with Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States, His Excellency Lee Tai Sik.
This event is the first in a series of programs featuring Ambassadors of Asian countries in cooperation with the Asia Society, in Washington, DC, supported by the Coca-Cola Company. The program will be held at the World Trade Center on August 15th, 2006 with reception from at 6:30 to 7 pm and dinner from 7 to 8:30 pm. 
For this particular event, there is a fixed rate of $60 for all attendees. 
For more information on SCIS's corporate membership levels please check the link below.
http://www.southerncenter.org/corporate_membership.html
Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Natalia Ferreira directly at 404-261-5763 ext. 138 or via e-mail at natalia@sici.org. 

The Southern Center for International Studies is in the process of planning its fifteenth conference with the former U.S. Secretaries of Defense in Atlanta .  This important event will feature a dinner with the Secretaries the evening of Thursday, June 8, 2006 followed by a round-table conference in front of a live audience of approximately 600 people on Friday, June 9, 2006.  The conference will be videotaped, edited, and shown on a PBS station nationwide. Invited Secretaries of Defense include:  The Hon. Robert S. McNamara, The Hon. Caspar W. Weinberger, The Hon. Frank Carlucci, The Hon. William J. Perry, and The Hon. William S. Cohen.  To date, the following participants have been confirmed:  The Hon. Melvin R. Laird, The Hon. James Schlesinger, and The Hon. Dr. Harold Brown. The panelists will discuss critical issues such as: the status of civil liberties in the U.S. and around the world, immigration and national identity after 9/11, national security in a globalized world, and media portrayal of the war in Iraq .  An experienced broadcast journalist will moderate and narrate this program.  Past SCIS moderators have included Edwin Newman, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Marvin Kalb, Terrence Smith, David Gergen, Hodding Carter, and Judy Woodruff.  For this conference, David Gergen is expected to moderate. More details such as time and costs will be available shortly.

For more information on our upcoming events, please visit http://www.southerncenter.org/upcoming_programs.html. 

FOR GENERAL INFO: 404.752.6080

GAMES