Previous Events

Feb 20, 2008, Wednesday - Noah's Pudding at the World Festival

Location: ASU Hayden Lawn
Time: 10:30am - 2:30pm

Fellowship of Faiths & Cultures Club shared Noah's Pudding (Asure) at the World Festival. Asure received great interest from the visitors.

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Oct 30, 2007, Tuesday - "Rumi Returning": Sneak Preview of a Documentary, written &                                               produced by Kell Kearns & Cynthia Lukas.

Location: ASU Memorial Union, 202 (Alumni Room)
Time: 6:00pm

Fellowship of Faiths and Cultures Club presented a unique event at ASU: "Rumi Returning" (Click for more details and pictures).

Mevlana Celāleddin Rumi is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical genius and was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam who lived in 13th century. In Afghanistan, he is known as 'Mawlana', in Iran as 'Mawlawi' and in Turkey, he is known as 'Mevlana'. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the birth of Mevlana Celāleddin Rumi to honor his greatness, his work, and philosophy. 800 years after he was born, Mevlana Rumi is the most popular poet in the United States of America. The name "Mevlana Celāleddin Rumi" stands for an ecstatic flight into infinite love.

 

Apr 11, 2007, Wednesday - Inter-Cultural Poem Night

Location: ASU Memorial Union, 208D (Havasupai)
Time: 5:30pm

Are you a poem addict? Do you want to enjoy a night full with poems from different beliefs, cultures, and traditions? Come and share the poems you like with us. Do you like writing poems? It might be also a good experience to share your own poems. Refreshments will be served.

Feb 21, 2007, Wednesday - World Festival

Location: ASU Hayden Lawn
Time: 10:30am - 2:30pm

FFC participated in the 19th Annual World Festival, which is held on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 on Hayden Lawn at ASU main campus. This annual event is one of the highlights of the Spring semester and has large number of participation by the campus community. The members of FFC served Noah's Pudding (Asure) which was free and Baklava during the World Festival (Click to see pictures).

Nov 27, 2006, Monday - Tea & Talk-2, Inter-Cultural Story Telling

Location: ASU Memorial Union, 212 (Cochise)
Time: 5:00pm

Fellowship of Faiths and Cultures Club (FFC) continued bringing members of different cultures together in our campus. As a part of Tea'n Talk series, FFC hosted Inter-Cultural Story Telling Event in Memorial Union Room 212 on November 27, 2006. Magnificent stories from American, Canadian, Indian, Mexican, Turkish and Japanese cultures were told. Audiences also contributed with their stories after the story tellers. Warm talks continued with light refreshments (Click to see pictures).

Sep 28, 2006, Thursday - Tea & Talk-1, Inter-Cultural Movie Night

Location: 905 S. Hacienda Dr. Tempe, AZ 85281
Time: 7:00pm

FFC welcomes to everyone who wants to join us. This first meeting of the semester is a gathering to warm up people and meet with new club members. The future events of the semester will be discussed. Light refresments will be served. Also, the movie "Kashmir" will be watched together.

May 1, 2006, Monday - Exploring Faiths and Cultures Lecture Series: The West African Ifa
Tradition
(In collaboration with The Foundation for Inter-cultural Dialogue)

Speaker: Iyalorisa Marilyn Omifunke Torres
- Chief Olumeto Agbomola of Imota
- Chief Iyasale Egungun of Imota
Imota, Nigeria

Location: ASU Memorial Union, 208D (Havasupai)
Time: 5:30pm

Ms. Torres has been actively involved in philanthropy, public policy, organizational management, program design, multicultural education, and training for over 20 years. Her main focus has been in coaching, training, public speaking/storytelling, international touring, lecturing, and multicultural program design, institutional development, legislative research, conference design, coordination and facilitation. In the area of multicultural education focus has been given to: West African, Caribbean, European, Polynesian, South and North American indigenous traditions.

Ms. Torres is the president of the WestWinds 9 Consulting, which promotes cultural respect, human tolerance and social awareness among tribal nations both in the United States and abroad. Her projects have included travels through-out the United States, West Africa, Europe (Spain, France, Scotland, and England) Canada, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru and Mexico. She also holds Chieftancies for the Village of Imota, Lagos, Nigeria (conferred August 3, 1984) as the Chief Olumeto Agbomola of Imota and Chief Iyasale Egungun of Imota.

Ms. Torres has a B.A. in Behavioral Science and Anthropolgy and an M.S. in Non-Profit Management & Public Policy.

April 11, 2006, Tuesday - Exploring Faiths and Cultures Lecture Series: Bahai Faith
(In collaboration with The Foundation for Inter-cultural Dialogue)

Speaker: Paul Harasha
Location: ASU Memorial Union, 219 (Navajo)
Time: 5:30pm

We continued the Exploring Faiths and Cultures seminar with Baha'i Faith. Mr. Paul Harasha who works at Mesa Community College as a Professor in Sociology, was the guest speaker. First, he showed a 3-minute video about the three Oneness in Baha'i Faith, and then started his presentation. He outlined the principles of the Baha'i Faith and answered some questions while he was explaining the important points of the faith. Prof. Harasha also talked about the origin and history of the Baha'i faith. He emphasized the notion of fellowship and dialogue as well. The presentation was followed by a question and answer session. After the refreshments were served, participants interacted through informal conversations while enjoying refreshments in a friendly atmosphere.

Speaker: Prof. Gary D. Bouma
- UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific
- Head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia
Location: ASU Memorial Union, 225 (Rincon)
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm

Dr. Gary D. Bouma is currently the UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific and the Head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia. The topic of Dr. Bouma's presentation was "Religion, Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion" and approximately 12 guests attended the talk. The diverse structure of Australia and the relation between the members of different faiths and culture groups were examined during Dr. Bouma's talk. The attendees joined the discussion with their personal experiences in their life. Everybody was very glad with the discussion and the great appreciation was presented to Dr. Bouma.

February 28, 2006, Tuesday - Abraham: A Model of Religious Tolerance and Peace

Location: ASU Memorial Union, 202 (Alumni Lounge)
Time: 5:00pm

The Fellowship of Faiths and Cultures (FFC) Club and the Religious  Studies Society (RSS) are presenting a joint event on Abraham (peace be upon him)  from the perspective of Abrahamic Religions. The aim of the event is to establish  interfaith dialogue among the members of these religions by emphasizing their  commonalities, as well as to understand Abraham's mercy, tolerance, and embracing voice that welcomes all humankind.

In the event, the first talk will be about Abraham's life as background knowledge, then 3 speakers representing Christianity, Judaism and  Islam will give a speech about Abraham based on scriptures or stories in their religions (click for details).

November 29, 2005, Tuesday - Exploring Faiths and Cultures Lecture series: Christian Science

Speaker: Anne Taylor
Location: ASU Memorial Union, 221 (Apache)
Time: 5:30pm

This is the second of the series which was about Christian Science.

September 15, 2005, Thursday - Indian Culture (Tea & Talk)

Speaker: Hari Balasubramanian
Location: ASU Memorial Union, 204 (Copper)
Time: 5:00pm-5:30pm

We are initiating a new series of discussion sessions to investigate different cultures. These discussions will be informal such as tea & talks. This session we will explore Indian culture, bliefs and traditions.

September 14, 2005, Wednesday - Katrina Hurricane Relief Day

Location: beside the Business Administration Bldg.
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm

This is a fundraising project to help the victims of Katrina. As the student organizations of ASU, we'll have a donation station on campus, beside the Business Administration Bldg. (at the end of Cady Mall, south part). Please, come and join us to support the people in need (see activity details).

September 13, 2005, Tuesday - Exploring Faiths and Cultures: Catholicism
(In collaboration with The Foundation for Inter-cultural Dialogue)

Speaker: Father Nathan Castle, director of the Catholic Newman Center
Location: ASU Memorial Union, 226B (Ventana B)
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm

"Exploring different faiths and cultures" is a series of events. In the first meeting, we began with Catholicism. Through these series, our aim is to increase diversity and make people better understand about different cultures and faiths (see activity details).

August 30, 2005, Tuesday - FFC Welcome Meeting

Location: ASU Memorial Union, 225 Rincon
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm

FFC welcomes to everyone who wants to join us. This meeting is a gathering for warm up people. The events of the semester will be discussed. Light refresments will be served.

April 13, 2005, Wednesday - Whirling Dervishes of Rumi
(In collaboration with The Foundation for Inter-cultural Dialogue)

Location: ASU's Gammage Auditorium
Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm

The Whirling Dervishes of Rumi, one of the most exquisite ceremonies of spirituality, was a rare opportunity to experience a mesmerizing seven-century old ritual, incredible performance featuring beautiful costumes, hypnotic live music with flutes, string and percussion, and the amazing sight of the Dervishes whirling on the stage (see activity details).

February 9, 2005, Wednesday - The Necessity of Inter-cultural Dialogue (Panel)
(In collaboration with The Foundation for Inter-cultural Dialogue)

Location: ASU Memorial Union, 203S Gold South
Time: 4:00-5:15pm

The goal was to promote communication, mutual respect and cooperation among different cultures and faiths that make up this society, which is really from various cultural backgrounds, all over the world. Thus, this panel was a great opportunity to form new friendships, to establish a fellowship and a peaceful dialogue atmosphere for this community (see activity details).

November 6 , 2004, Saturday - Ramadan Dinner (Eid-ul-Fitr)
(In collaboration with The Foundation for Inter-cultural Dialogue)

Location: Phoenix Sheraton Airport Hotel
Time: 5:00pm

March 26, 2004, Friday - Dialogue Among Faiths (Tea & Talk)

Location: Arizona State University, Memorial Union - 212 Cochise
Time: 4:00pm

The notion of the event is to get together and to warm up dialogue among faiths. (see activity details).

February 21, 2004 - Lunch for Christian Students and Muslim Refugees in accordance with the AZ Lost Boys Center & Friendly Soccer Match

Location: AZ Lost Boys Center, Phoenix, AZ

We provide support some refugees and homeless people in the Phoenix Metropolitan area. We also set up a free dinner for Christian students of AZ Lost Boys (see activity details).

February 1, 2004 - Religious Festival of Sacrifice (Eid-ul-Adha)

Location: Schnepf Farms, 22601 E. Cloud Road, Queen Creek, AZ 85242

Many years ago, Prophet Abraham was going to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Isaac in Bible) for the sake of God due to his oath he had given before. Then for his loyalty, God sent him a lamb instead of his son. This program is the annual celebration of his event (see activity details).