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Generation Mix National Awareness Tour to Stop
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MATC Downtown as Only Stop in Wisconsin
The Madison Area Technical College (MATC) Downtown
Education Center will be the only Wisconsin site to host Generation
Mix tour activities
during the historic 5-week, 8,000-mile journey of five multiracial
young adults to raise awareness of America’s mixed race baby
boom. All events take place at MATC’s Downtown Education
Center, 211 N. Carroll St. in the 1st floor atrium on Wednesday,
May 4, from 3-7 p.m.
The five young adults are traveling the United
States in a 26-foot RV, stopping in 16 cities to promote a national
dialogue about
the multiracial experience. At each stop, local communities learn
about the multiracial experience through family friendly activities,
interactive games, reading materials, comprehensive resource
lists and facilitated dialogues. In addition to the activity fairs,
audiences
will enjoy a keynote stage presentation by the five tour crew
members who will combine personal anecdotes with compelling information
about the mixed race experience. The public can also participate
via a comprehensive tour website available at www.generationmix.org,
where the five young adults keep a diary of the tour stops and
additional press releases and events are listed.
“We’re
very excited to host something as important as the National Awareness
Tour,” says Harold Gates who is
a faculty advisor of the MATC Social Change Collective and a member
of the
Midwest Center for Cultural Competence, the two local organizations
who are sponsoring the event. “Madison is a diverse city
that must continue to promote dialogue and awareness about multiracial
issues.”
The public is welcome to attend and celebrate the
racial diversity in Madison. The keynote presentation is titled “Growing up
Mixed in our Highly Race Conscious Society.”
The Generation
MIX National Awareness Tour is a project of MAVIN Foundation, the
nation’s leading organization that celebrates
and advocates for mixed race people and families. Since 1998, MAVIN’s
award-winning projects like MAVIN magazine and the MatchMaker Bone
Marrow Project have raised awareness of this rapidly growing population.
For more information, visit www.mavinfoundation.org or www.generationmix.org.
MATC is one of the largest of the Wisconsin Technical College System’s
16 colleges and serves about 50,000 individuals annually. It provides a comprehensive
curriculum of technical, liberal arts and science, adult basic education and
life enrichment studies and activities, as well as customized employee training.
MATC provides training in more than 100 career programs. It awards associate
degrees, vocational diplomas and certificates, and offers non-degree courses.
The college serves all or parts of 12 counties located in south-central Wisconsin
and offers instruction through five campuses and various other locations throughout
the district.
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Last
Modified:
April 28, 2005
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