Media Advisory: Diversity Week at Kurn Hattin

DATELINE: January 16, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO OP
Contacts:

Jaimie Scanlon
Rapt Creative
(W) 802-490-2164 (C) 802-579-8545
jaimie@raptcreative.com

Mark G. Auerbach
Mark G. Auerbach Public Relations
(W) 413-733-7095 (C) 413-427-7352
mgauerbach@gmail.com

 

Kurn Hattin Homes for Children Celebrates Diversity Week

WESTMINSTER, VT--Kurn Hattin Homes' Diversity Week is an annual 4-day event on Kurn Hattin's campus. Featured activities include presentations, lectures, discussions, and workshops focused on diversity-related themes such as the impacts of stereotypes, prejudice, racism, discrimination, class and gender bias, the use of inclusive language, and restorative justice, as well as diversity in art, music, and poetry.

This year's event kicks off on Tuesday, January 22 with an assembly devoted to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Throughout the week, award-winning New England Youth Theater founder Stephen Stearns will work with the Kurn Hattin children on an anti-bullying play to be performed at the final assembly on Friday.

Other guest presenters and performers include Dr. Dottie Morris, Chief Officer for Diversity and Multiculturalism at Keene State University, photographer and poetry teacher Dr. Robert Fay, musical artists Moonlight and Morning Star, Vermont Jazz Center founder Eugene Uman, percussionist Todd Roach, and the Brattleboro School District's Restorative Justice Coordinator, Mike Szostak.
 
Kurn Hattin School Principal, Scott Tabachnik, heads up the event's organization. Tabachnik is the former Diversity Coordinator of Brattleboro Union High School and is a recipient of the WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Teacher Recognition Award, given by the Anti-defamation League New England Region.

Kurn Hattin's 2013 Diversity Week scheduled presentations and workshops are as follows. These events are not open to the public:

Tuesday, January 22

8:15 – Diversity Week Kick-off Assembly – Dr. King’s Legacy  
8:30-11:45 – Stephen Stearns – Anti-bullying Theater Workshop

9:15-10:55 – Dr. Dottie Morris – Topic TBD

                        Bill McHugh – Unity and Diversity 
10:05-1:40– Scott Tabachnick – What is Diversity?

12:50-2:45 – Nancy Clingan – Screening & Discussion of “Baseball in the time of Cholera” auditorium
 2:30-4:00 – Mike Szostak – Restorative Justice Training

Wednesday, January 238:00-11:45 – Stephen Stearns – Anti-bullying Theater Workshop

8:00-10:30 – Assembly – Screening & Discussion of “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Thursday, January 24
8:10 – Scott Tabachnick – Diversity in America 

8:30-10:05 – Corey Mitchell – Individuality: Reading and Discussion
8:30-11:45 – Stephen Stearns – Anti-bullying Theater Workshop
9:15-10:55 – WFC Presenter – Healthy Relationships 

                     Kristin McGee – Meditations
*12:50-1:40 – Moonlight & Morningstar with special guest Eugene Uman
2:30-4:00 – Mike Szostak – Restorative Justice Training

Friday, January 25

8:15 – Diversity Week Poetry and Art Awards Distributed 

8:30-1:00 – Stephen Stearns – Anti-bullying Theater Workshop
8:30-1:00 – Todd Roach – World Drumming Styles 

9:15-11:40 – Dr. Robert Fay – “The Harlem Renaissance”
*1:00-2:30 – Diversity Week Wrap-up Assembly – Drumming & Theater Performances

[* These events will be available for viewing via live online streaming at https://kurnhattin.org/news/diversity-week-livestream]

Events not open to the public. Credentialed media may visit Kurn Hattin to cover/photograph the events. Please call in advance and reserve a spot with Jaimie Scanlon, Rapt Creative, at jaimie@raptcreative.com or 802-490-2164.

A place of hope since 1894, Kurn Hattin Homes for Children provides a safe home and quality education for boys and girls, ages 6-15, whose families are experiencing a time of personal or financial need. Kurn Hattin transforms the lives of children and their families forever. www.kurnhattin.org

 

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