Email from Students for International Development

Hi,

My name is Michelle Alejandra Rubio from the Students for International Development club (SID.) I am sending this email to ask for your support with our Creative Competition, a new way to help students get involved with international issues. For the past twenty years, SID has hosted an annual Hunger Banquet to raise awareness within the BYU community about global poverty and wealth inequality. The Hunger Banquet is designed to serve as both a fund-raising event and an opportunity for members of the BYU and Provo communities to think critically about the systems of inequity that permeate our world.

This year’s Hunger Banquet theme is Human Dignity, and we are hosting a creative competition as a way of exploring this theme. Our goal is to encourage students to create art that shows the dignity within the bounds of poverty. We are accepting paintings, film, photography, dance, music, creative writing, or any other type of creative platform that can be displayed in a gallery here on campus. I have attached the official flier and ask that you share it with your classes to encourage involvement. As a further incentive, several $200 prizes will be awarded to the outstanding entries.

As a final note, if there is any way for us to send a representative from SID to do a short presentation in class, we would love to stop by. Just email me back and let me know when and where. The deadline for entry is February 18th.

Thank you for your involvement,
Michelle Alejandra Rubio

Check out our website:
http://kennedy.byu.edu/student/SID/hunger/#