18 mai 2012, "French Spring": A Global Potential Cocktail Party
Global Potential 5th Anniversary Party
Global Potential 5th Anniversary Party 2012
Join Us for Open Bar and Raffle Prizes
WHERE: The Caulfield, 119 E 27th, Between Park and Lexington
WHEN: 6:30pm-9:30pm, Friday February 24, 2012
Felt Club, December 19: 1st Annual Holiday Party for Global Potential in Boston!
PLEASE
WHEN: December 19, 7-10pm
WHERE: 533 Washington Street, Boston, MA
Tickets are on sale at http://www.gpcharity.eventbrite.com
Sponsored by: 235 Entertainment, Joshua James Photography, Felt Boston, Dj hectic, Moves n’Vibes Dance Studio, and Westport Rivers vineyard.
Our first GP Boston holiday charity event features a live latin dance performance by Moves n’Vibes Dance Studio and auction by Lyrical. The cost of admission includes complimentary champagne, hors d’oeuvres, and a very special gift bag.
The live auction will feature sports memorabilia, sporting event tickets, and artwork.
Please join us to raise money and have a blast for our organization at our first holiday fund raising event since our expansion to Boston.
Early bird tickets for $15 will be available until December 10, 2011
Regular admission is $20 online at http://www.gpcharity.eventbrite.com
Tickets may be purchased at the event for $25
Cost of Admission includes: complimentary champagne & hors d’oeuvres
21+ event
For more information please contact event coordinator, Jennifer Dauphinais: jenne@global-potential.org
December 2 and 3, 2011: Ignite your Inner Voice and CALL TO ACTION Film Festival
Please buy your ticket online: comes with extra raffle ticket if purchased online rather than at door!:)
PLEASE
Raise the Roof so We can Pay for Ours!!!
Thank you to all 156 people who attended our event, keep your eyes and ears open for our next holiday bash in December 2011!
GP POST HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH A PURPOSE IN BOSTON, CLICK HERE FOR FACEBOOK INFO
Hi, HOLA, Bonjour!!!!
Global Potential presents you to a one of a kind party experience for a great cause!
Even if Halloween is over, come dressed up, practice your amazing dance moves and get fancy…
for an AMAZING CAUSE!
Who & What: Global Potential’s wonderful staff and other amazing people from Northeastern are planning a huge party in Chinatown the Friday of November 4th.
Where and When: 33 Harrison Ave in Chinatown, on the Fifth Floor. 9pm to 12H30am!
Directions: Take Orange Line from Ruggles to the Chinatown stop or the Green Line from the NU T stop to Boylston. From there, walk to 33 Harrison Ave.
Why: To support Global Potential (GP), its youth and awesome Encuentro 5 space where it is hosted! GP is a non-profit organization that works with urban youth to enact positive change in their lives, neighborhoods and when coming full circle, around the world. We help the youth become better leaders, social entrepreneurs and seek to engage them in becoming active members of society. If you want more info on us, visit us at: http://global-potential.org/
or like us!!: http://www.facebook.com/globalpotential
-$10 cover charge at the door, $8 online!
DJ Orion Quest- prepare your arms to fist pump to house, your hips to sway to hip hop and bachata and in general, get in shape by November 4th! You will be dancing A LOT!
In general, get ready to have a great time and great company. It’s Chinatown and the doors are open till 12H30am, so you’ll have more time after to go out in awesome neighborhood too
Showing of Global Potential movies in background throughout night!
June 29: Ilegal Mezcal Cocktails Night: Support Global Potential Pre Departure!
FEE
$25 (your generous contribution will go 100% to the youth to participate in Global Potential)
Please purchase your ticket online HERE
We have a limited number of spaces available for this event so purchase your tickets soon!
Ever wonder what Ilegal Mezcal tasted like?
Ilegal Mezcal invites you to an exclusive event to benefit Global Potential.
WHY:
Support our amazing organization, Global Potential, for 58 youth, young adults and staff going to do our annual international development work for 6-weeks on a life transformative journey, leaving July 5, 2011!
This is a night you will not want to miss.
DETAILS
-Amazing space and special Global Potential Central America and Caribbean cocktails.
-Great music, great people, great cause
-Unique taste of vintage, small batch, handmade mezcal
WHERE
1 Worth Street (Corner of Worth and Hudson), 2nd Floor
RSVP
ilegalmezcal@global-potential.org
WHEN
June 29, 2011
7-10PM
Snacks and light refreshment provided
June 4, 2011: Boston Youth Film Festival in partnership with Ashoka's Youth Venture
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WHERE:
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
85 W. Newton Street (between Tremont Street and Shawmut Avenue)
Boston, MA
An Ashoka Youth Venture and Global Potential Production
Sponsored by:
*Global Potential Northeastern University Student Organization
*Anna’s Taqueria
__________________ONE NIGHT FILM FESTIVAL FEATURING__________________
-Short documentaries about youth in Boston and around the Globe
Running their own World
Changing Social Ventures
-Special guest speaker
RSVP: ycbworld@gmail.com or on 
acebook HERE
Please spread the word! Space has capacity of 250 people, the more the merrier!
Global Potential joins 2000 other sites around the U.S. to take a Stand Against Racism, April 30, 2011
Read Boston Globe Article here.
“Facebook Page here.”: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178221012226250
City Councilor Tito Jackson special guest at Global Potential’s youth showcase event in partnership with the YWCA to
STAND AGAINST RACISM!
April 30, 2011 from 5 to 9pm
Youth community of Boston together raises awareness that racism still exists in our communities.
WHAT: Global Potential is hosting a youth showcasing event on YWCA Stand Against Racism Day: http://www.standagainstracism.org/.
=Featuring innovative Boston youth and Global Potential social venture Ashoka Youth Venture-sponsored youth groups — all committed to making social change locally, nationally and internationally.
=Global Potential stands for the right of individuals to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve and we commit ourselves to take action for peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all people.
=STAND WITH THE YOUTH OF BOSTON on April 30!=
Thank you for taking a Stand Against Racism!
___________HOST ORGANIZING YOUTH GROUPS___________
(1) Les Manos United (LMU) – 4 teenagers from Boston organizing to collect necessities in Boston for international communities in Haiti, DR and Nicaragua.
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT LMU
Mission Statement: Our vision is to encourage youth to widely discuss world issues and inquire them to make a change starting locally in Boston. Youth engaged in Les Manos United will organize and lead fundraising events to contribute to local and international social causes and towards the intention to help the common well of their community
****Note from (LMU): We are initiating our new project “Shoes for the people of Batey 7” in the Dominican Republic and “Books for kids Nicaragua”. Please bring a donation of either a book or pair of shoes to the event.
To inquire about this group please email Marianny Martinez at marianny@global-potential.org
(2) Real Talk! CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT Real Talk Boston
Founded by GP Youth Leader 2010 Daniel Alfaro, The Real Talk! project serves all youth who want to spread their message of: equality, love, respect and/or solidarity in the City of Boston. Daniel says: “Many teens, like myself, have passions in the arts, music, social scene and youth power, thus we invite everyone who can spread their message of: equality, love, respect and/or solidarity to use this site and recruit new members to your cause, while making the City of Boston a strong community.”
Daniel will be launching the first issue of his Real Talk! newsletter tonight!
Please email Daniel Alfaro at daniel@global-potential.org for more information about this group.
(3) BSAC: GP Youth Leader 2010, Ayan Hassan, and President of BSAC, will be presenting about her organization, which is a citywide body of student leaders representing their respective high schools. BSAC serves as the voice of students to the Boston School Committee. They offer their perspectives on high school renewal efforts and inform their respective schools about relevant citywide school issues. They also address student issues by developing district-wide policies. BSAC, a unit of the Office of Family and Student Engagement, is another initiative of BPS to engage students in school improvement and academic success.
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BSAC
Please email Ayan Hassan at ayanabdihassan123@hotmail.com for more information about this group.
PRINCE GEORGE GALLERY SPRING FUNDRAISER
WHEN: Wednesday March 23rd, 7-11pm
WHERE: PRINCE GEORGE GALLERY, 15 East 27th St. (between 5th Ave and Madison Ave)
WHY: Because you care and want to meet Global Potential’s YOUTH LEADERS and LISTEN to their stories
Successful event for UN International Volunteer Day at Encuentro 5 Boston, December 5, 2010!
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On UN International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, Sunday, December 5, 2010, Global Potential, with the help of the Starbucks Youth Action Grant, hosted a fundraiser to raise money to support the youth in Boston for the upcoming year. The money raised will help prepare Boston Public School (BPS) students prepare for a six-week community service learning trip to the Dominican Republic, Haiti or Nicaragua next summer.
The event was held at their new shared office space at Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Avenue in Chinatown from 1pm until 7pm. Encuentro 5 is spacious and beautiful and accommodated around 100 guests at different times throughout the afternoon. The event offered a range of fun filled activities, each with a different time slot, and guests paid $7 for each activity in which they wanted to participate. The event was entirely youth-led and included activities ranging from mural painting, to DJ classes, and even Latin cooking classes.
Prior to its start, youth from Boston and New York worked diligently to prepare, advertise and set up for the fundraiser. They were even joined by co-founder and Executive Director of Global Potential from New York, Frank Cohn!
The day’s activities kicked off with an introduction of each GP youth leaders’ community social ventures, as well as a sneak peak of the documentaries that the students made during their six weeks overseas last summer. These documentaries depicted their different experiences and discoveries throughout their fieldwork. The youth had Nicaraguan jewelry and GP T-shirts for sale, light snacks for guests, a slide show of images and of course the painting of a beautiful mural by Lesly, a GP youth leader who also came to help from New York.
The event closed with an energetic and unforgettable Capoiera lesson donated by the local Boston group Kilimobo Novo Capoeira Angola. Overall, the event was not only fun and a great success, but it was also an amazing opportunity for youth to organize, lead and participate in a fundraiser in their own community, benefitting their own social ventures. Youth demonstrated passion, organization, and dedication to their community and their social ventures. A great way to celebrate the UN International Volunteer Day!
Our final program for GP e5 Fundraiser December 5, 2010!
$7 suggested donation per activity
Artisanal Jewelry straight from Nicaragua available for purchase
New GP T-shirts for sale, $15/ $10 for students
Food and Snacks prepared by GP Youth!!! (Free, but donations appreciated!)
We are volunteer-run, and 100% of proceeds go to creating transformative experiences for our youth and communities.
ONGOING ACTIVITIES
Play drums like you are in the Bateys of the Dominican Republic
Paint a mural, designed by Lesly Manzanares*, with Paint generously donated by Pill Hardware
Games!: Play Cards, Chess, Goh, Chinese Chess, and More!
Toy Collection: Donate toys to distribute to Haitian families for Christmas organized by “Les Manos United” (LMU) GP Youth Social Venture group.
Buy Jewelry and T-shirts: designed by GP youth and from Nicaragua
Ask any of the GP youth or staff to find out how you can join us in leading this movement!
SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES
1:00- Learn about the Social Enterprise Ventures that GP Leaders have created since they returned from their 45 days in the Dominican Republic & Haiti or Nicaragua, this past summer!
1:30- Watch Teasers from GP docs by Christelle, Daniel, and Natalia*!
1:45- Watch award-winning documentaries made by 2009 GP youth
2:00- Learn about the DREAM Act with Student Immigrant Movement, and make action plans!
2:00- Listen to Stanley Lahens* Rap about his GP experience, and create your own Slam poetry
3:00- Relax with an expert yoga session with Suzi Parks from the South End Yoga Center.
4:00- Learn to Dance Salsa and Bachata, with Maribel Sánchez
4:30- Learn how DJ and listen to Matthew McNeill aka Mr. McNeill spin! (more details on back)
5:00- Cooking Class: Learn to Make Platanitos and Morir Sonando with Marianny Martinez*
6:00- Learn to speak Haitian Creole with Christelle Abraham*
6:15- Watch and learn how to dance Capoeira with a Special performance and class by Kilombo Novo group, led by Zumbi and other amazing dancers (see back for more details)
- 2010 GP Leaders
DECEMBER 5: INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Stay tuned for an updated program! CLICK HERE TO RSVP to reserve your spot or click here on our EventBrite
set up for this fun day in Boston with Global Potential!
Peter Brock, a new visual artist, helps GP raise funds at his art gallery February 23, 2010
Peter Brock, a new visual artist, is helping Global Potential raise funds on February 23, 2010! Showing at a gallery in Williamsburg for 1 night only, Peter’s work “translates the paradoxes, contrasts and peculiar grace of contemporary life into a colorful and bold pictorial language”. Half of the sales of prints will go directly to support Global Potential. There will also be a great party, drink specials, live music all night, great conversations, and special guest appearances of GP youth. Invite all your friends. Enjoy!!! Click here to see the flyer!
PETER BROCK: My work channels the contrasts, contradictions, paradoxes and peculiar grace of our interconnected yet disparate world. I strive to give my emotional and sensory faculties unfettered contact with the agonizing tensions and sublime harmonies that punctuate my experience as a human being. During the act of painting, I strive to silence the intellectual chatter in my head and to let myself be as open and flexible as possible so that nuanced and elegant images might flow through me. Through this process I hope to craft images that illuminate the fringes of our visual comprehension.
You are cordially invited to the PLURAL + Youth Produced Video Festival Awards Ceremony.
Youth from around the world participated with their videos highlighting their
hopes and challenges regarding migration, identity and diversity.
PLURAL + is a project of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and
the International Organization for Migration in collaboration with many international partners.
The Award Ceremony & Screening will feature Sugar Cane Hopes (L’espwa Kan), produced and directed by 2009 GP Youth Leandro Perez, Xu Xiang, and Freddy Ogando. This film is about two Haitian migrant workers struggling to survive in a Dominican Batey while working in the sugar canefields. The film depicts parallel stories of Roberto, 18 years old, and Junior, 24 years old. Both came to the Dominican Republic with hopes of finding a better life.
On 18th December 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm
the award winning videos of PLURAL + will be
announced and screened at the PLURAL + Awards Ceremony
held at the Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street, New York City.
Please RSVP at plural@unaoc.org.
Famous Nicaraguan singer, Salvador Baltodano, will perform at our filmraiser in Boston!
Special appearance at Northeastern University School of Law, November 20, 2009, by famous Nicaraguan singer, Salvador Baltodano! Salvador endorses Global Potential’s work next summer in Nicaragua and the local and global change that our work carries out. Thank you Salvador!
Biography
My Musical Trail
I was born in Nicaragua, Central America, into a family where my grandfathers, aunts and sisters played piano, guitar or sang. Those early years were magnificent; full of color and motivation. Next, I took my guitar and my voice onto school stages, and later I jumped into traditional groups of dance and experimental music.
My first attempts at song-writing failed, so I set out to make good lyrics by reading a great deal of poetry and philosophy. It seemed that I should put music to some poem, when in fact the treatment for songwriting is different. Songs, according to my understanding, do not have to be linear. Composers play with the memories and the interests of the listeners. The public also wants to participate in singing the song and needs to listen to a refrain or phrase that is repeated. In my first years of composing, I was convinced that, without exception, all songs had to have a message, and I rejected most compositions of others’; they seemed to me too light, or lacking in depth. In time I reached the conclusion that music also is entertainment, and that four lines and a good rhythm can make a song a classic.
First it was songs with social content. Next, groups with music of diverse styles captured my interest. I competed in popular and romantic musical festivals in my country and abroad, and continued composing until the voice of love called me to the United States, where I now permanently reside.
Here in the U.S., I assume the challenge of making music in a country with incredible professional exigency, still coveting those fruits of triumph. I close this brief route of the artistic history of my life, hoping this is not the last time that you visit me.
Instrumentation
One member: Me
Two intruments: My guitar and my voice
Discography
In the past I recorded with other bands and musicians. Currently I am finishing my first solo album and all my musical material is in Spanish. I will soon dare to compose in English. In this new material you will find the songs “Asomate”, “Oh Luna”, “Tan Solo”, “Mingo” and others.
Forum Mondial de l'Action Humanitaire et Sociale
Global Potential will be representing its program at this First World Forum of Humanitarian Action in Paris, France! The event will be held from December 5 to December 8 and one of our alumni youth will also be attending.
Previous Events
Art with a Purpose, May 29, 2009
Party with a Purpose #2, December 6, 2008
Party with a Purpose #1, June 20, 2008
Art with A Purpose #1, April 5, 2008
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Our Partners for our fundraising events
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