Beyond Boundaries

beyond boundaries

building lasting and just relationships across cultural and class boundaries

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Upcoming Events

ANNUAL PICNIC

Saturday

September 27, 2008

3:00 pm

340 Midland Avenue

(Aggie Lane’s house)

All Are Welcome

Please bring a dish to share and a lawn chair, RSVP to Aggie

at 315-478-4571

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BB Booth at Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Sunday

September 21, 2008

11 am – 7pm

Westcott Street,

University area, Syracuse

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Come to

BB’s FIRST MEETING

To get information on our 2008-2009 Project

Sunday

October 19, 2008

4 – 6pm

Brady Faith Center

404 South Ave, Syracuse

View our full 2008 - 2009 Calendar here.

About Beyond Boundaries

Beyond Boundaries, founded in 1993, is a grassroots group based in Syracuse, NY. Beyond Boundaries (BB) encourages cross-cultural understanding and self-awareness.

MISSION STATEMENT:

Beyond Boundaries hopes to build in Central New York, in the United States, and abroad, modest but lasting and just relationships across cultural and class boundaries. To do so, we select projects in local, national, and international places. Part of our mission is to make traveling a possibility for each of our members, not just those who can afford it.

At present, BB focuses on West African, African-American, Puerto Rican and Native cultures. We have built a partnership with CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, Ghana, West Africa. On the Gullah Island of St. Helena off the coast of South Carolina, we now know the staff at the historic Penn Center. We have friends in Loiza, Cayey, Yabucoa and San Juan, Puerto Rico who are family members of Puerto Rican Syracusans. From Native peoples we have learned about Lakota, Haudenosaunee, Chippewa and Algonquin history and culture.

MEMBERSHIP:

YOU CAN BE A BB MEMBER by signing up for an awareness project. If you want to travel on BB’s annual awareness trip you must commit to:

· attending monthly meetings,

· paying for your own trip expenses, and

· helping out with publicity and local awareness-raising events.

We are striving for a diverse and welcoming group.

Puerto Rico Awareness Trip - At Tibes, PR

African-American Awareness Trip -- At the Avery Research Center, Charleston, SC

African Awareness Trip - in Bolgatanga, Northern Ghana

Native Awareness Project in Ottawa