New Funding Support from the Mardag Foundation

Hmong Cultural Center is pleased to announce that it has received a $10,000 grant from the Mardag Foundation to support its Hmong Men's Circle program in 2009. Hmong Cultural Center thanks the Mardag Foundation for this important show of support.

New Funding Support from the Travelers Foundation

Hmong Cultural Center has been awarded a new $20,000 grant for 2009 from the Travelers Foundation.

Hmong Cultural Center is very thankful to the Travelers Foundation for its ongoing support of the mission and programs of the organization.

Hmong Cultural Center Banquet November 9, 2008

Hope everyone can make the Hmong Cultural Center Fundraising Banquet, Sunday, November 9 in Saint Paul.

Information is at this link

Hope to see you November 9, 2008 at Food Smart Restaurant.

New HCC Videos Posted

3 new videos have been posted of lectures from HCC's Building Bridges program

Txongpao Lee Executive Director lectures on:
Hmong Shamanism
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8433917489102710972&hl=en

The Hmong Marriage Ceremony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlvXgRjlhi4

The Hmong Funeral Ceremony
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2507884663001167459&hl=en

To schedule a Building Bridges presentation call Hmong Cultural Center at 651-917-9937
More information about the program is available at:
http://www.hmongcc.org/BuildingBridgesProgram.html

Grants to HCC

Hmong Cultural Center would like to thank foundations that have provided new financial support over the past several months in 2008.

The McKnight Foundation, 3 years of funding for the youth programs

The Saint Paul Foundation, 2 years of funding for the Hmong Resource Center library

The Bigelow Foundation, 2 years of funding for the Hmong Resource Center library

The Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation 2 years of funding for the Qeej program

The National Endowment for the Arts, funding for the Hmong Funeral Songs Instruction program

Hmong Studies Journal Volumes 7 and 8 now available to order

Hard copy versions of Hmong Studies Journal Volumes 7 and 8 are now available to order through Hmong Cultural Center. Volumes 4, 5, and 6 are also available to order.

For more information visit:

http://www.hmongstudies.org/HSJPrintingsPR08.html

To view the HCC store visit:

http://www.hmongcc.org/HCCStore.html

-Mark Pfeifer

Hmong Cultural Center adds new book holdings to its Resource Library

Hmong Cultural Center is adding new items to its Hmong Resource Center library in the summer of 2008.

Among these is Thomas Vang's new A History of the Hmong and several additional books.

To see catalog lists of holdings in the library (which do not yet reflect the very recent additions) visit: http://www.hmongcc.org/ResourceCenterLibrary.html

-Mark Pfeifer

Welcome to the HCC Blog!

Welcome to the new Hmong Cultural Center blog. Check back here for announcements of interest to the Hmong Cultural Center community!

-Mark Pfeifer