This is our day! HIP is growing, and with our increase in membership, we are expanding our diversity. What better place than our own community to discover the world.

So let’s use our combined knowledge to help each of us develop our intercultural expertise!  Here is the clever plan:

Each of us will:

•    Come with a dish to pass from our national cuisine.
•    Come dressed in your national costume or a ‘typical outfit’
•    Come with a proverb from your country which reveals the essence of your culture
•    Come with 3 essential ‘do’s or taboos’ that someone should know before traveling or working in your country.

Everyone will have about 2 minutes to present their country to the group. If you’d like to bring an A4 sheet with an image or map or information of any sort, feel free to do so and we will build a collage with those papers and some Polaroid pictures taken during the event. Feel free to bring CD’s of your country’s music as well!!

Recently there has been a great deal of controversy around the theme of women and equality.  The International Women’s Day theme is #PressforProgress.

We at HIP have decided to start the year on a positive note by celebrating the richness our diversity brings to our organization, to each other, and to the world.  Let’s charge up our batteries together by recognizing the depth and breadth of our own community while hopefully inspiring openness and understanding towards all that makes us different.

Bring a dish from your national culture, drinks will be provided. While there is no entrance fee we suggest a donation of 10€ per person to cover our expenses.

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