Get ready for a truly unforgettable celebration of the Festival of Lights with your family!Join us for a special Diwali Puja at the Broome Street Ganesha Temple, where the morning will be filled with beautiful prayers, rituals, and blessings that you won't want to miss. It's a rare chance to connect with your community, immerse yourself in the joy of Diwali, and experience the magic of this auspicious day together. But that's not all! After the puja, enjoy a captivating Diwali storytime with Chhavi Arya Bhargava as she reads from her NEW book, A KIDS BOOK ABOUT DIWALI. We’ll wrap up the day with a delicious mithai tasting from TAGMO and Diwali trivia led by Anu Sehgal—fun for all ages! Bring your family, and let’s light up the day with faith, love, and celebration. This event promises to be one of the highlights of your Diwali festivities!For more Diwali events, go to our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://theculturetree.com/events">website</a>.

Diwali Puja for Families

Ticket sale ends Sunday, September 8. Limited seats on first come, first served basis.Join us at the JLF New York for the Women in Culture Conclave, an evening of conversations/readings/fireside chats with culture makers, writers and ideators, contemplating women's role in history &amp; narrative as both disruptors and transmitters of culture. Curated by Myna Mukherjee the event is presented by Engendered in association with The South Asia Institute, Columbia University.&nbsp;Other partners include The Culture Tree, Jayaram Studios, Tagmo &amp; Rupee Beer.Featuring: Rajshree Bakshi is Senior Vice President – Marketing and Brand Strategy Reliance Industries. She has led the inaugural programming across performing, visual and costume art for the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre; anchored the opening of India and Mumbai’s milestone performing art centre. She is Involved in setting the strategic road map to the NMACC vision for India, ensuring the best of India and world are showcased at the cultural centre that aims to entertain, educate, inspire and to experience the arts together.&nbsp;Vidya Shah, an Indian classical singer, musician and composer, &amp; winner of the Charles Wallace Award. She will present an musical excerpt from her project collaboration with the Ford Foundation called Women on Record, and her book Jalsa highlighting the contributions of the forgotten women performers of the gramophone era.Marilyn Hacker, eminent poet, translator &amp; critic and a feminist. Recipient of Lambda Literary Award and other numerous honors, including the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review, the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, the PEN Voelcker Award, the Argana International Poetry Prize from the Beit as-Shir/House of Poetry in Morocco, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York and was elected as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2008.Bushra Rehman, an award-winning novelist &amp; poet, and author of the New York Times and New Yorker Editor’s Choice of the year 'Roses in The Mouth of a Lion', a modern classic about what it means to be Muslim and queer in a Pakistani-American community.Anu Sehgal, children's author and founder of The Culture Tree, a cultural literacy and language education company that focuses on South Asia. Anu has written 5 books that represent stories and languages of India. Anu’s books have been selected at the World Literature Festival at NYPL, Brooklyn Museum’s annual Children’s Literature Festival and Asia Society’s AAPI Literature Festival. Raakhee Mirchandani, journalist, children’s book author, activist, also co-author of She Persisted with Chelsea Clinton and her latest upcoming book Kamala Raised Her Hand.Aroon Shivdasani, founder, former executive &amp; artistic director of the Indo-American Arts Council, NYC, and recipient of Minnie Untermeyer Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2023Sunita Iqbal, senior advisor in private and public arts philanthropy. She has worked with majors arts funders including the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with the Regional and Economic Development Council's Arts and Culture Initiatives and Capital Improvement Funds, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and DanceNYC.Shruti Ganguly is a filmmaker and writer based between New York City and Oslo. Shruti was a member of Obama’s ECCO committee of 30 leaders and creators in entertainment, chairing its Asian Caucus. She has produced several feature films (including Spirit-winner H., and the Nora Ephron Prize-winner INITIALS SG) that have premiered at Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, Telluride, and Berlin, and she is a Co-EP on the Oscar-nominated feature documentary, TO KILL A TIGER.Myna Mukherjee, listed as India's top 5 curators and Open Magazine's Top 50 Open Minds 2024. She is a cultural curator, producer and director of Engendered, a transnational arts &amp; human rights organization New Delhi/New York.

JLF Women in Culture Conclave

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://theculturetree.com/">The Culture Tree</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://broomestreetganesh.org/">The Broome Street Ganesha Temple</a>host Kid's and family Holi celebration.The event will include an interactive aarti, meditation, storytime (by author Anu Sehgal), art activity, prasaad and face painting. This will be a beautiful celebration that is interactive and will bring the community together.

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