Greetings!
Blessings to Christians in this Holy Week and Jews celebrating Passover. This Sunday, Andy "metrocard man" Padre is organizing our 2nd annual Easter Parade fundraiser. Please see the information below and join him to model wearable NYC art. Last year's sale was tremendous fun and raised almost $1,000.
150 people attended our 2nd Annual Interfaith Seder last Sunday, hosted by St. Francis Xavier Church and led by Romemu's Rabbi David Ingber. Read Samir's tweets sent live from the Seder and view photos online.
Want to catch up on past Faith House gatherings? We have new articles and podcasts online:
There is more information below about upcoming Living Rooms, a field trip, and how to sponsor a Living Room gathering, a great way to support the central work of Faith House Manhattan.
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SPECIAL EVENT
Easter Parade - Metrocard Art Fundraiser
 Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010
9:30am - 12:30pm
(help when you can)
5th Avenue and 54th Street
(or meet at Andy's apartment
to help transport art)
Organized by Andy Padre andygpadre8@hotmail.com
Message From Andy ~
I need your help:
- Modelling metrocard hats (Empire State, Chrysler, Brooklyn Bridge, etc) which are also for sale
- Selling metrocard bags: by donation to Faith House w/ a suggested
donation of $10 or greater. The bags may also contain a metrocard
shoe, flip flop, card, necklace and bracelet
- Guarding the "base camp" of hats and/or helping people try hats on
(I'm suggesting people donate $1 for trying hats on and taking a
photograph of themselves)
Here's the plan:
A small team will leave our apt at approx 9:30am (after 8am church
service) loaded with hats, bags and a sheet (to display items on and
act as base camp) and head over to 5th and 54th where we'll set up
"base camp". You're welcome to join us at the apt and help load up or
meet at base camp and model hats, help sell items.
Feel free to come and go from base camp, model hats or sell bags. I'll
be working the crowd away from base camp and you are welcome to join me or sell on your own, please spend as much time as you like or drop by to say hi. We may be outdoors for several hours so you may also want to do a coffee/snack run as well as dress appropriately.If you wear one of the more popular metrocard hats, be aware you will
be photographed a lot and may be published.
I'd like to sell the bags for $10 or more, some have a more labor
intensive design and will be marked as such. Let me know if you have any questions and pls start wishing for good weather.
Thank you!
Andy Padre
andygpadre8@hotmail.com
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LIVING ROOM
The Sikh Revolution: A Vaisakhi Dialogue
on Sikhism and Social
Justice
 Wednesday, April 14, 2010
6 pm Doors, 7 pm Program
Intersections, 274 5th Ave
Btwn 29th and 30th Sts
With Sundeep "Sonny" Singh
On April 14, 1699, a day that's today honored as one of the biggest Sikh
holidays, Guru Gobind Singh (the tenth Sikh guru), along with thousands
of other Sikhs, created the Khalsa, a collective body of armed
revolutionaries, warrior-saints, whose mission it was to overthrow
tyranny in all its forms. Marking the 311th anniversary of the creation
of the Khalsa and the codification of Sikh identity, this Living Room
will explore the revolutionary foundation of Sikhism and provide an
opportunity to discuss the modern day relevance of Sikh philosophy and
poetry-scripture.
Facilitated by musician and activist Sonny
Singh of the Sikh Coalition, we will celebrate Vaisakhi 2010 by
discussing the Sikh approach to social justice through learning about
Sikh history and philosophy and through singing and discussing the
meaning of a shabad (Sikh devotional verse) together. Sonny will lead
the shabad on the harmonium, accompanied by Nisha Mistry on the dholak.
Sundeep "Sonny" Singh is a musician, activist, and
educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He has been involved in movements
for social and economic justice since he was in high school, and has
worked as a Community Organizer at the Sikh Coalition since 2008. Sonny
also plays trumpet and sings in the bhangra brass band Red Baraat and
is a freelance trumpet and dhol player. Since moving to NYC in 2003,
he has worked in the labor movement for the union UNITE HERE, was a
Community Organizer at the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
(CHAMP), and is a member of the Left Turn Magazine collective.
Sonny
received his M.Ed. in Social Justice Education from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst in 2003, where he studied and practiced the art
of popular education, using education as a tool for transformation and
liberation. Sonny grew up in Charlotte, NC and Phoenix, AZ.
RSVPs welcome, but not required, on Facebook or Meetup
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FIELD TRIP
Manhattan Sacred Harp Sing
 Sunday, April 18, 2010
2 - 5 PM
5C Cafe
68 Avenue C @ 5th StreetCome sing-along to early American music! Participatory, a capella, sacred. We will join one of the groups that gather monthly for Sacred Harp Singing in New York City. "Shape note singing is a centuries-old, living American tradition of social singing. The Sacred Harp is the most popular of the shape note tunebooks, and there are many groups across the United States, as well as Canada and the U.K., that sing from it regularly. Sacred Harp singing is at turns stirring, cathartic, and haunting. It is the center of scores of regional communities, which in turn form a nationwide community united by song and fellowship that crosses all socio-political and economic boundaries. All are welcome to any Sacred Harp singing regardless of musical experience or religious affiliation. There is no admission fee to any Sacred Harp event." from Manhattan Sing |
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May & June
Living Rooms
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May 12
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin "Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet"
May 26
Austin Dacey, Author of The Secular Conscience
June 9
Peter Rollins, Founder of Ikon and author of How (Not) to Speak of God
June 23
Carole Forman on Spiritual Storytelling
More information on Upcoming Living Room Gatherings
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