Re: Re: newsletter

[Chet Patel]

Dear Christine and Nora Anne

The Upper Merion Cultural Fair Committee (UMCFC) has been created to advance the idea of having a Cultural Fair in Upper Merion once every year going forward to celebrate the increasingly diverse nature of the resident population in the Township. Earlier this year, the Upper Merion Board of Supervisors endorsed our idea of designating a special day of the year to celebrate this diversity and hold a Cultural Fair. Since time is short this year and we are still a small group with limited resources, we are going to have a tent at the annual Upper Merion Township Community Fair on Saturday, September 10th, 2011 to raise awareness about our ideas and our mission. At our tent we will have multiple displays, including a display of Greetings in different languages; a display dealing with Cultural Etiquette;  a Testimonial Book in which we hope people will stop by and share a few sentences on their journey to Upper Merion; a display of musical instruments from around the world and books and literature as well. We will also have a sort of Cultural Jeopardy game, a chance for someone to win an American Flag and an Upper Merion Flag. Many of the members of the committee are also bringing samples of food from different cuisines representative of a "cultural menu" for people to try and enjoy. In addition to all of this, one of our committee members is choreographing a "Bollywood" style dance with children in her dance classes that will be performed near the Gazebo in the Twp. park where the fair is held. There is also the possibilty of the multi-cultural percussion band Spoken Hand (spokenhand.org) playing at this event. 

We hope that the King of Prussia Players, of which our family is also a member, will help us share the news of this event and help us spread the word in the future. But more importantly, for this years event, were hoping that other members of the Players that are experienced in other forms of dance or music that represent different countries around the world, might be willing to participate in our event. We would welcome such involvement and anyone who is interested can contact us at um...@googlegroups.com . We also spoke at our last meeting about how nice it would be if some representatives of the Cast of The King and I would be willing to sing "Getting to Know You" at this event. Just imagine the picture of our Cast members singing this song, while waiving little flags from around the world as they perform. We think this would be a wonderful opportunity for the Players to also raise awareness of their activities and their plans for the new theater at Moore Road. However, time is short and arrangements have to be made. This Fair is a Township fair and other acts will also be performing. We hope that we can block of a section of time for those acts performing in relation to UMCFC. If we can get the Players to participate, we would be very grateful. All ideas are of course welcome and we will be meeting almost weekly from now until the day of the event. Thank You for your time and help.

Chet Patel

PS: Please feel free to edit and improve this...

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chet Patel <find...@gmail.com> wrote:

Okay, here is tha cast photo...

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Broome Family <broome...@verizon.net> wrote:

Smaller file size. Under 100KB.
8 or 9 is fine

Have a good day

Christine


Jul 28, 2011 07:07:50 AM, find...@gmail.com wrote:

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I will do both by thus evening but may not be able to get to it until around 8 or 9 pm. Is that okay? When you say compressed, do you mean a small file size (lower resolution/smaller canvas) or do you mean zipping (.zip) the file?

Thanks for your help!

Chet

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On Jul 28, 2011, at 6:50 AM, "Broome Family"  wrote:

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>
> Hi Chet, hope meeting went well. Any short write up you can provide me by
> tonight would be appreciated, would like to get the newsletter sent by
> tonight...thanks for all you do!
>
> Also...could you send me any compressed pic you have of entire cast?
>
> Thanks!! Christine
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chet [mailto:find...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 7:35 AM
> To: Upper Merion Cultural Fair Committee
> Cc: waterfa...@msn.com; LSey...@montcopa.org; Kim-Chheng Ly; Nora Anne
> DiLemmo; broome...@verizon.net
> Subject: UMCFC Meeting Today - 7/27/11 @ UM TWP. Building @ 7:30
>
> Hello All,
>
> As I had mentioned in my email on Monday, let's plan on meeting today at
> 7:30 in our usual place at the twp. building. Hopefully we can all be there.
> Please plan on giving a progress report on the items that we are working on
> individually. I think it's key that we nail down the "menu" of foods that we
> feel that we can get together on our own for this event. I know Daryl has
> put for something she is planning to bring and many of us had ideas of what
> we could do last time, but I would like to get them solidified.
>
> Jill and Dan, I still need to get the dimensions of the Gazebo. Is that
> available from anyone? Otherwise, I will have to bring a measuring tape
> today and measure it. This is critical to possibly get Spoken Hand to
> perform, because of their space requirements.
>
> Hopefully, Mitali can give us an update as to how her dance preparation is
> going with the groups of kids she is working with. I will speak of trying to
> partner with the King of Prussia Players (theater group) and using them as a
> partner and resource to raise awareness of what we are doing. Also, they may
> be able to help us reach out to other dance groups or performers for that
> day. After discussing this today in our group, I am going to work on writing
> up a description of us for their upcoming newsletter that goes out to all of
> their members.
>
> Please bring your ideas and energy tonight and hopefully, we can plan on
> meeting once a week till the community fair on 9/10. The only week I cannot
> make it is the week of Aug. 10th. If we meet weekly, I don't think the
> meetings have to be very long. Your thoughts?
>
> Please bring any new members with you to the meeting if they can attend and
> i will get their contact info and add them to the group.
>
> Is anyone still having problems using this forum? Please let me know?
>
> Chet
>