======================================================================== Ongoing: Exhibition of paintings, Art Chamber, Calangute www.goa-art.com Dec 13: Dance workshop, with Jaap Van Maanen. Tel 2275733 BB Cafe Dec 14 onwards: Shireen Mody's Goa 2002 exhibition, Arpora. Tel 2276759 Dec 14: Customer Relationship Mgt Seminar, Xaviers, Mapusa Tel 2262356 Dec 17, 18, 20: Indo-Portuguese furniture, lectures Fundacao Ph 2230728 Jan 18-19: International kite carnival at Morgim beach, Pernem ========================================================================
Dear Rene: I applaud you for your efforts towards organizing GOA DAY 2003. I would like to repeat some of what I said last year on the occasion of GOA DAY. GOA SUDHAROP (www.goasudharop.org) is committed to sharing the pride and joy Goans feel as a community on GOA DAY this year. Our manner of celebration is to try and give something back to our community by improving and developing Goa. Our efforts are very minor but we are trying. Other Goans have given back differently and impressively. Whether they have built cyber communities, donated money, time, skills, computers, or work for the underpriviledged, etc., there is hopefully a significant increase in altruism, based on our traditional Goan emphathy for humanity I suppose. Our worldwide celebration of GOA DAY should not be minimized. It compares no less with the Irish efforts of ST. PATRICK'S DAY and America's INDEPENDENCE DAY (minus the commercial marketing of those days) in preserving our identity. If we want to be, we can be a proud people, holding our own on the world stage. We have our own music, art, cuisine, history, literature, etc. Let's hope we speficially set aside some time this GOA DAY to celebrate our culture. Congratulations to you and everyone who has contributed to making this GOA DAY happen again. Best wishes, George Pinto www.goasudharop.org __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------- ***** CHRISTMAS PARTIES 2002 ***** Dec 14 - Goan Association of New Jersey, Inc., Somerset +1 (732) 599-7644 Dec 21 - GOA-LA, Los Angeles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (714) 821-6168 (late fee on tickets after Dec 10) Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a free X'mas party announcement here! ----------------------------------------------------------
