From: Andrea Poag Date: May 5, 2023 Subject: Reminders
Grand Challenge Project Pop-Up for naRoho
409 Marketplace at Student Agencies is a pop-up marketplace for student-run businesses and other project teams. One of the Grand Challenges project teams has been working with a social enterprise in Uganda (naRoho) that supports women and sells amazing handmade leather goods.
Friday, May 5th -- 3-7 pm. 409 Marketplace at Student Agencies
409 Marketplace is located at 409 College Ave, right by CTB in Collegetown. I'm really proud of this student team, they've worked very hard this semester. It's a great way to support our students and maybe do some Mother's Day shopping!
Thirty Dyson students have been working in teams of five to coordinate all aspects of this inaugural event, which will feature indigenous boatbuilding and wayfinding demonstrations, open paddling on Cayuga Lake, and friendly dragon boat racing. We invite everyone to explore the history and magic of human-powered outdoor recreation. Additionally, we will have indigenous foods and crafts for sale, origami paper canoe lessons for kids, and performances of traditional Haudenosaunee Social Dances.
The event will kick off at 10AM with a Welcome Ceremony given by Sachem Sam George (Cayuga Nations, Bear Clan), and then an open paddling session with Hickory Edwards, Haudenosaunee Canoe Journey. Around Noon, Dyson students will gift the canoe they built this semester to Hickory Edwards, followed by a traditional Chinese Eye Dotting Ceremony (“Awakening the Dragons”) and colorful performance by Cornell Lion Dance Club to bless the event, the paddlers, and the boats.
