Visual
Artists Guild - New York Chapter
Cordially
invites you to an
Annual Commemorative Tiananmen Dinner Event
And Candlelight Vigil
Dedicated
to Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan
June 4, 2008 - 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Delight 28 Restaurant - 28 Pell Street, New York City
Honoring
Ronan Farrow and Mia Farrow
"Spirit of Tiananmen Award"
Champion
of Free Speech Award
Honoring
Nat Hentoff
Syndicated Columnist - The Village Voice
&
Honoring Lucie Morillon
Reporters Without Borders
It
will be our honor to be joined by Majora Carter, the
American Olympic Torch bearer who pulled the Tibetan Flag from her
sleeve in San Francisco and was
pushed off the street as security guards from China yanked the torch
from her
hands. She told reporters: "I'm a torch bearer for peace and freedom
and justice." Majora Carter has graciously offered to present one of
the awards.
In
the spring of 1989, Beijing erupted with the largest spontaneous
demonstrations the Peoples Republic of China had witnessed in its
40-year
history since its founding in 1949. The pro-democracy movement quickly
spread to over 30 cities around China
before the world witnessed the horrors of the government's brutal
crackdown. As the Chinese people fled from the tanks and guns, they
asked
the international press to let the world know the truth.
They
asked the world not to
forget.
The Visual Artists Guild is a non-profit organization which champions
the right
of freedom of speech and expression. Established in May of 1985, it
holds
the belief that freedom of expression is the essential quality of all
art. Its mission is to bring to world attention whenever such a right
is
threatened or suppressed.
Zeng
Jinyan, Time Magazine's
100 most influential people in 2007. She and her husband Hu Jia are
activists who brought attention to China's dismal records in human
rights especially about AIDS and the environment. Hu Jia was sentenced
to
three and half years in jail after he published an article "The Real
China and
Olympics."Zeng Jinyan, the mother of a young baby, remains under house
arrest.
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Table
of 10 - $400
Members of Visual Artists Guild - $40/ Non members - $45/ Students -
$35
Donor
Ticket - $100 (allows you to sit at Honoree Table)
Dinner will be served.
RSVP
- Ann Noonan, President - New York Chapter - Visual Artists Guild
annnoonan@hotmail.com
or call 646/251-6069
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Date
: Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Time: 6:00 p.m. registration,
dinner 6:30 p.m.
Place: Delight 28 Restaurant, located
at 28 Pell Street
in Chinatown, NYC
Cost:
Members of Visual Artists Guild - $40
Non members
- $45
Students
& Seniors - $35
Donor
Ticket - $100 (allows you to sit at Honoree Table)
For information and reservation please call 646-251-6069 or
e-mail to annnoonan@hotmail.com
Please mail check payable to Visual Artists Guild, P.O. Box 861132,
L.A.,
Ca. 90086-1132
Postmarked by May 29, 2008
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Background Information: For
more
information on the Tiananmen Massacre, please click on http://www.visual-artists-guild.org
and click on Tiananmen Story.
Visual Artists Guild is a non-profit organization as qualified under
Section
501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue code.
This is an all volunteers'
organization.