2008 Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration 11/23/2008

Keynote Speaker Patty Loew

Sunday, November 23
3-5 pm
Lakeview Lutheran Church
401 Mandrake Road, Madison, Wisconsin

Madison's third annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration is being sponsored by the Greater Madison Interreligious Association (GMIA) and more than two dozen area churches and civic organizations, including Lakeview Lutheran which is hosting the event in its East Hall.

This multicultural and interreligious event is free and open to the public. It will be held on Sunday, November 23, from 2:30 - 5 pm. Lakeview Lutheran Church, 4001 Mandrake Road, is located at the corner of Mandrake and Northport Drive in Madison, Wisconsin.

Arrivals for this year's event begin at 2:30 pm with Celtic music by Michael Doran. The interfaith program starts at 3 pm, and a potluck social follows. There will be free childcare from 2:30 - 5:30 pm in the church nursery.

This year's keynote will be by Patty Loew, Ph.D. , an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches documentary production and Native American Environmental Issues and the Media. An enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew has produced more than a dozen award-winning documentaries on Native topics and published two books, Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal and Native People of Wisconsin, a fourth-grade textbook currently used by 15,000 Wisconsin school children. Her most recent documentary, Way of the Warrior, which explores Native American veterans and cultural healing traditions associated with combat, aired nationally on PBS in 2007.

This year's program also will include music, readings, dance, and prayers from a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions in the greater Madison area.

Those who attend this year's event are invited, but not required, to bring canned goods or a cash donation for the charity food drive to benefit Dane County food pantries. Attendees also are welcome to contribute appetizers, snacks, or desserts to the social that concludes the program.

DIRECTIONS to the site, contact Lakeview Lutheran Church: (608) 244-6181 or visit: http://www.lakeviewlutheranchurch.org/contact.htm [include link]

QUESTIONS? Contact GMIA Secretary Jerry Mosser: jerrymosser@tds.net or GMIA President Selena Fox: selena@circlesanctuary.org; (608) 924-2216.


SPONSORS

Greater Madison Interreligious Association
Benedictine Women of Madison-Holy Wisdom Monastery
Circle Sanctuary
Congregation Shaarei Shamayim
Deer Park Buddhist Center
Dialog International
Edgewood College - Department of Religious Studies
First Unitarian Society
Inroads Ministry
Lakeview Lutheran Church
Madison Baha'i Community
Madison Eckankar Community
Madison Interfaith Dialogue
Madison Jewish Community Council
Madison Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Madison Sufis
Madison YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association)
Madison-area Urban Ministry (MUM)
Memorial United Church of Christ
Niagara Foundation
Northside News
Northside Planning Council
Saint Mark's Lutheran Church
Springdale Lutheran Church
The Crossing Campus Christian Center
Tiger's Eye Temple
Tri-Unity Wellife Associates
Unity of Madison
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Wisconsin Council of Churches
Wisconsin Tibetan Association
Wisdom's Well Interfaith Spirituality Center

Sponsoring organizations are supportive of interfaith encounter, dialog, and collaboration and are helping with publicity for this event. To be a Sponsor, contact jerrymosser@tds.net

MORE INFO:

Madison Area Neighbors 2007 Article

2007 Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration

2006 Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration