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Business News Nigeria’s stock brokers set to exchange 03 August 2017 four:14 am Barring unexpected occasions, stock brokers in Nigeria might also soon have the power of buying and selling in the United Kingdom, and plenty of different countries following the special education being organised by using the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS),in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI), inside the United Kingdom. By the proposed -pronged joint education, slated for August, 10 to 18, 2017, at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), members would be exposed to know-how Modern Commodity Derivative (MCD) and International Introduction to Securities and Investment Market (IISI). As a part of the strategies to globalize the operations of stock brokers and different practitioners inside the economic market, the CIS cited that the ISI is designed to prepare the individuals to take an examination for the CISI’s qualification, the main requirement for practicing in all international locations where CISI UK is recognized.

Business alternate 03 August 2017 4:14 am Barring unexpected instances, stock brokers in Nigeria may quickly have the ability of buying and selling in the United Kingdom, and many other countries following the special training being organised by means of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI), within the United Kingdom. By the proposed two-pronged joint education, slated for August, 10 to 18, 2017, on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), members could be uncovered to understanding Modern Commodity Derivative (MCD) and International Introduction to Securities and Investment Market (IISI). As part of the strategies to globalize the operations of stockbrokers and other practitioners in the economic market, the CIS noted that the ISI is designed to put together the individuals to take the exam for the CISI’s qualification, a primary requirement for training in all nations where CISI UK is regarded.

The institute explained that ISSI additionally offers candidates a broader financial surroundings wherein the monetary offerings industry operates and examines how an economic interest is decided and managed in different financial and political systems. “The Commodity Derivative education on its own is a high-effect program in order to equip participants with a complete information of Commodity Markets, Commodity Trading, Risk Management and Derivatives in terms of Agriculture, Oil and Gas, Agro Allied Company, Finance, and Energy each in global and neighborhood views. “The Master Class interface will cope with realistic trading techniques techniques in various commodity markets, inclusive of agricultural manufacturing, crude oil, and base.” Commenting on the initiative, the CIS’ President, Oluwaseyi Abe defined that the flow turned into constant with the Institute’s policy on capability constructing consistent with the globalization of the Nigeria’s Capital Market whereby market regulators and operators ought to function at international pleasant practice. Corroborating Abe, the Institute’s First Vice President, Adedapo Adekoje, mentioned that distinguished on the listing of members have been commodity investors, stockbrokers, different capital market practitioners, Bankers, finance enterprise Regulators, agriculture entrepreneurs, Gas practitioners, legal professionals, accountants and coverage Practitioners. The Involvement of the British inside the Transatlantic Slave Trade The 25th March 2007 marked 200 years because of the abolition of slavery act within the United Kingdom. This act delivered an give up to over 250 years of a merciless and barbaric trafficking of up to fifteen million African’s throughout this time, who were taken from their native homelands that were then compelled to work on the plantations in the West Indies to fulfill the ever increasing call for cheap labor. In this research we can try and firstly study British involvement inside the slave exchange, searching on the fundamental motivations for it from both an economic and sociological perspective. Secondly we can take a look at the factors for the abolition of the slave alternate; specifically, the efforts made through people which include William Wilberforce, Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson and additionally recall the efforts made by way of religious stress groups together with the Evangelical and Quaker agencies. Finally, we investigate the effect of the slave exchange and the legacy that it has had upon the UK and Africa. The story of the slave trade and Britain’s involvement goes returned to as far as 1562, as compared to the Portuguese and the Spanish the British were ‘past due starters’ in the slave trade, however, were virtually no less big in the proliferation of slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries. The English adventurer and slave dealer Sir John Hawkins, a Plymouth born service provider changed into arguably the first person to use the time period “Human cargo” whilst he seized 300 Africans in the course of his first slave buying and selling challenges. Other individuals preferred to apply the term “commodities”. It can be seen as early as 1562 that the British at the side of European counter components considered African’s with little or no regard and even “not human”. The British considered African cultural practises as not Christian although it has been claimed that Christianity reached components of Africa as early as the second one century A.D. African’s had been branded via the British as ‘two-legged beasts’ or ‘savages’ that have been no longer quite beasts, however, had been really now not human either. It can be argued that the Christian values held with the aid of the British at this point were an essential motivation for the slave alternate. To difficult the black historian and writer Richard Reddie argues that many Christians associated the color of the African’s pores and skin to be an indication of sin as black became the related to sin and the Devil and that the word black has “always been a loaded time period within the English language connoting negativity”. Therefore it can be said that the British considered the Africans as not worthy of being human or to be dealt with as such. Therefore any use of Africans for slave labor purposes can be justified primarily based on omitting interpreted biblical references.

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LENOX, MA [November 11, 2019] — Every year, WAM Theatre donates a portion of the box office proceeds from their Mainstage productions to organizations that work for gender equality locally, nationally, or internationally. The success of the just-closed production of PIPELINE by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Dawn M. Simmons, enabled the company to present $4500 each to their 18th and 19th beneficiaries, Harmony Homestead and Wholeness Center, Inc., and The Women of Color Giving Circle. This brings WAM’s donation total since its founding in 2010 to $75,000.

The WAM Team presents checks to Harmony Homestead Wholeness Center and the Women of Color Giving Circle following the closing performance of PIPELINE on November 9, 2019. Photo by David Dashiell.

PIPELINE, presented by WAM in partnership with BRIDGE, is a co-production with The Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA, where the play will be performed from March 5-29, 2020.

“The WAM Beneficiary Committee is delighted that our selection of these two beneficiaries enabled us to support both the professional and spiritual development of what we hope are future educators of color in the Berkshires”, Kristen van Ginhoven, Producing Artistic Director of WAM Theatre shared. “That made these two organizations the perfect beneficiaries for PIPELINE.”

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WAM Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven and BRIDGE Founder and CEO Gwendolyn VanSant with Shirley Edgerton and Leah Reed of the Women of Color Giving Circle. Photo by David Dashiell.

Elizabeth Blackshine, Founder of Harmony Homestead, with BRIDGE Founder and CEO Gwendolyn VanSant and WAM Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven. Photo by David Dashiell.

“WAM’s donation will allow Harmony Homestead & Wholeness Center to create and provide a horticulture therapy program for people of color. We also hope to purchase a vehicle to help increase attendance by families of color at our programs, which include meditation, re-evaluation counseling classes, cultural food growing, and nature immersion programs” explained Elizabeth Blackshine, Founder of Harmony Homestead & Wholeness Center.

“This donation from WAM will help the Women of Color Giving Circle upgrade the educational tools we use in our mentoring program for girls and their families.” said Leah Reed, a member of the Circle. “It will also help us facilitate and maintain connections with students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) as we foster collaborative relationships by bringing them to the Berkshires to work with our youth.”

The 2019 beneficiaries were chosen after a thoughtful and rigorous selection process, including a request for proposals and site visits, overseen by a committee at WAM consisting of Kristen van Ginhoven (WAM Producing Artistic Director), Margaret Fluhr (WAM Board of Directors), Wendy Healey (WAM Board of Directors), Dori Parkman (WAM General Manager) and Lia Russell-Self (WAM Associate Producing Director). Stephanie Wright of BRIDGE joined the committee this year as part of the WAM/BRIDGE partnership on PIPELINE.

Harmony Homestead and the Women of Color Giving Circle are WAM’s 18th & 19th beneficiaries. Past recipients include: Tapestry Health Systems, The MoonCatcher Project, The Denise Kaley Fund, the LIPPI Program of the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, the Soldier On Women’s Program, the Berkshire Immigrant Center, Suzi Banks Baum’s New Illuminations initiative in Gyumri, Armenia, Hands in Outreach, Sisters for Peace, Mother of Peace Orphanage in Illovo, South Africa, the Rites of Passage and Empowerment Program for Girls (ROPE), Shout Out Loud Productions, Berkshire United Way’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, Edna’s Hospital in Somaliland, The Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, and Women for Women International. Read more.

An important component of the WAM/BRIDGE partnership was creating a sense of engagement and place for the artists and production team. BRIDGE Founder and CEO, Gwendolyn VanSant coached the WAM team in equity and inclusion practices for beneficiary processes, relevant community partner engagement, board and volunteer education, and the artist and audience engagement and outreach; consulted in design of curriculum, study guide and playbill; participated in auditions and designed a supplemental talkback to support Berkshire county audience and panelists at the intersections of the WAM and BRIDGE mission. Representatives of the PIPELINE beneficiaries, along with BRIDGE Towards Racial Justice activists and allies, provided additional meals and meetings to support the guest artists while they were in the Berkshires performing this play, as well as ushered for the play and provided support for the production where needed.

“Through this production, we looked to fortify and nourish local partnerships and cultivate access points for authentic discussion for students and adults engaged with our schools and justice systems around the stark ethnic disparities that exist for Black families. As we identified gaps in understanding and life experience for some audience members and a deep resonance for others, this unique Berkshire production of PIPELINE offered solutions and future models for all arts organizations through a deep, intentional collaboration with community partners for all of us as educators, parents, students, artists and leaders to grow from,” Gwendolyn VanSant explained. “PIPELINE helped us deepen these conversations with courage and vulnerability.”

An in-school workshop series, designed and taught by Talya Kingston of WAM and Stephanie Wright of BRIDGE, provided the 8th grade students of Nessacus Regional Middle School attending PIPELINE with classes to introduce the students to concepts of racial bias, micro and macro aggressions, and stereotyping, and provided them with strategies to embrace individual responsibility and to facilitate community change.

Nessacus 8th Graders pay rapt attention during their talkback.

PIPELINE Community Development workshops (PIPELINE 2.0), designed and taught by Lia Russell-Self from WAM and Gwendolyn VanSant from BRIDGE, were presented in multiple professional development and public events across Berkshire County to extend the opportunity for learning from the immense power of PIPELINE outside of the theatre toward positive social impact. Participants were educators who selected the Pipeline 2.0 session for Berkshire County Professional Development Day for educators, MCLA students and their faculty on the Day of Dialogue, BRIDGE Race Amity Day participants and the Nessacus 8th grade team.

BRIDGE Founder & CEO Gwendolyn VanSant with Dennis Powell, President of the NAACP-Berkshire Chapter, and Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington.

WAM’s Associate Producing Director Lia Russell-Self moderates a talkback with Shirley Edgerton and Jerome Edgerton.

BRIDGE Founder & CEO Gwendolyn VanSant moderates a talkback with BRIDGE educator Stephanie Wright and Dr. Emily Williams.

BRIDGE Founder & CEO Gwendolyn VanSant with Dr. Tracey Benson, author of “Unconscious Bias in Schools.”

Curated and moderated by Gwendolyn VanSant, a well attended series of post show conversations offered audience members an opportunity to engage with artists involved in the production and with speakers such as Dr. Tracey Benson, author of Unconscious Bias in Schools, Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington, DA office Community Engagement Coordinator Bryan House, Dennis Powell, President of the NAACP-Berkshire Chapter, and local subject matter experts, beneficiaries and others.

On Saturday, November 2nd, WAM’s Fresh Takes play reading series had a successful reading of PARADISE by Laura Maria Censabella, followed by a conversation with the playwright, actors Layan Elwazani and Jay Sefton, and director Talya Kingston.

Layan Elwazani and Jay Sefton in WAM’s Fresh Takes Reading of Laura Maria Censabella’s PARADISE. Photo by David Dashiell.

Finally, after the closing performance on November 9, there was a chance to meet representatives of Harmony Homestead and the Women of Color Giving Circle and hear more about how WAM’s donations will impact their work. This was followed by the check presentation ceremony.

“It is phenomenal to wrap up our 10th season with these inspiring donations.” said WAM’s van Ginhoven, “This production of PIPELINE and our close work with our partners at BRIDGE and our co-producers at The Nora at Central Square Theater was an extraordinary experience for us all and the perfect way to conclude our first decade and lay the foundation for our second.”

This co-production of PIPELINE will be presented by The Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA, March 5-29, 2020.

PIPELINE was sponsored in part by Carolyn Butler.

About WAM’s fall production of PIPELINE

AT A GLANCE

October 24-November 9, 2019 PIPELINE by Dominique Morisseau

Directed by Dawn M. Simmons at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre at Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA

www.wamtheatre.com/pipeline

A powerful and thought-provoking examination of race, class, and the American education system

Featuring Hubens “Bobby” Cius, Barbara Douglass, Alexandria Danielle King, James Ricardo Milord, Sandra Seoane-Serí, and Kevin Craig West

Shelley Barish, Scenic Designer

Michaela Carmelo Bocchino, Lighting Designer

Greg Smith, Sound Designer

Elizabeth Rocha, Costume Designer

John ADEkoje, Projection Designer

Lauren Burke, Stage Manager

Presented in Partnership with Multicultural BRIDGE

Co-produced with The Nora at Central Square Theater, Cambridge, MA, where the show will be presented March 5-29, 2020.

This production of PIPELINE is sponsored in part by Carolyn Butler.

About Harmony Homestead & Wholeness Center

Harmony Homestead & Wholeness Center exists to facilitate social harmony and reparations to members of the underserved global majority by means of support groups, reconnecting with nature, sustainably growing and preserving food, preserving and practicing indigenous wisdom, and fostering cross-cultural allies.

For more information: unveilwholeness.com/

About Women of Color Giving Circle

In affiliation with the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, the Women of Color Giving Circle of the Berkshires seeks to inspire young women of color and instill self-respect and resilience. They work to build community, encourage youth development and educational success, and promote the arts. They provide funding and encourage civic action among citizens of Berkshire County.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/wocgc1/

ABOUT BRIDGE

BRIDGE, a Minority and Women Run Nin-Profit Organization, started as a grassroots Berkshire-based organization dedicated to catalyzing change and integration.

Since 2007, BRIDGE’s mission has been “promoting mutual understanding and respect among diverse groups serving as a resource to both local institutions and the community at large. Serving the Commonwealth and beyond as a Supplier Diversity Program certified by the Affirmative Market program of the Massachusetts, we serve as catalysts for change and integration through collaboration, education, training, dialogue, fellowship and advocacy.” Our core values are accountability, empowerment, celebration, learning, collaboration, and equity.

Through a 360 degree perspective on community and civic participation, BRIDGE has designed a holistic approach to community and public health. BRIDGE’s goal is to impact hearts, minds and behaviors that result in positive cultural shifts and systemic changes in policy, law and practice towards a more just, safe and equitable society.

Services include access to cultural literacy and cultural competence training; diversity equity and inclusion consulting, facilitation; youth leadership; multicultural education; parent engagement and education; civil rights and social justice forums and advocacy with diverse groups. We facilitate cultural competence programming in schools and institutions to promote equity and to educate on systemic racism and cultural barriers.

For more information: www.multiculturalbridge.org

ABOUT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER

Central Square Theater (CST) is a state-of-the-art theatrical arts facility where audiences find, under one roof, the distinctive repertoires of two award-winning, professional companies, Underground Railway Theater (URT) and The Nora Theatre Company (The Nora), as well as collaborative projects drawing on their creative synergy.

Central Square Theater is a cultural anchor in the community — schools, families, and community groups benefit from outreach and educational programs, and the local economy gets a boost from the nearly 30,000 audience members that visit CST each season and enjoy the multicultural, multi-generational, urban environment of Central Square, Cambridge.

As the first permanent home for both theater companies, Central Square Theater is a vibrant hub of theatrical, educational, and social activity, where artists and audiences come together to create theater vital to the community. The theater is dedicated to providing affordable ticket prices for underserved communities and offers free or discounted tickets to many local non-profit organizations.

For more information: www.centralsquaretheater.org

For more information on The Nora at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA, visit: https://www.centralsquaretheater.org/about/the-nora-theatre-company/

WAM 10th Anniversary Sponsors

WAM’s 2019 sponsors include Adams Community Bank, Annie Selke, Baystate Financial, Berkshire Gas, Berkshire Hand to Shoulder Center, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Berkshire Magazine, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Blue Q, Blue Spark Financial, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation, Canyon Ranch, Chez Nous, Custom Business Solutions, Dr, Jay Wise, DDS and Dr. Casey Jones, DMD, The Dylandale Foundation, Frankie’s Ristorante Italiano, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace, Haven Cafe and Bakery, Health Professional Coaching, Heller & Robbins, Interprint, J.H. Maxymillian, Inc., Lee Bank, Maggie Barry, NEPR, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Only in My Dreams Events, Onyx Specialty Papers, OUTPOST, RB Design Co., Scarlett Sock Foundation, The Rogovoy Report, The Rookwood Inn, Salisbury Bank, T Square Design Studio, Toole Insurance, and a. von schlegell & co.

WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from the Alford-Egremont Cultural Council, Cultural Council of Northern Berkshires, Hinsdale-Peru Cultural Council, Lenox Cultural Council, New Marlborough Cultural Council, Otis Cultural Council, Richmond Cultural Council, Sandisfield Cultural Council, Sheffield Cultural Council, Washington Cultural Council, West Stockbridge Cultural Council– local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

PARADISE is sponsored in part by Jadzia and Donald Brown, LADY RANDY was sponsored in part by an anonymous donor and PIPELINE is sponsored in part by Carolyn Butler.

ABOUT WAM THEATRE

WAM Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Berkshire County, MA, that operates at the intersection of arts and activism. WAM creates theatre for gender equity and has a vision of theatre as philanthropy.

In fulfillment of its philanthropic mission, WAM donates a portion of the proceeds from their Mainstage productions to carefully selected beneficiaries. Since WAM’s founding in 2010, they have donated more than $75,000 to 19 local and global organizations taking action for gender equity in areas such as girls education, teen pregnancy prevention, sexual trafficking awareness, midwife training, and more.

In addition to Mainstage productions and special events, WAM’s activities include innovative community engagement programs and the Fresh Takes Play Reading Series. To date, WAM has provided paid work to more than 400 theatre artists, the majority of whom are female-identifying.

As a civic organization that embraces intersectional feminism (feminism that acknowledges how multiple forms of discrimination overlap), WAM understands that to address one piece of systemic discrimination means we have to address them all. This is on-going personal and professional work at WAM for the staff and board.

WAM Theatre has been widely recognized for having a positive impact on cultural and community development in the region. WAM is the recipient of the Creative Economy Standout Berkshire Trendsetter Award and previously, was named Outstanding Philanthropy Corporation of the Year by the Western MA Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Kristen van Ginhoven, WAM’s Producing Artistic Director, was honored by the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) with the prestigious Larry Murray Award, presented at the discretion of the BTCA Board to a person or theatre project that advances social, political, or community issues in Berkshire County.

For more information: www.WAMTheatre.com

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WAM Theatre Donations Reach 10-Year Total of $75,000 LENOX, MA — Every year, WAM Theatre donates a portion of the box office proceeds from their Mainstage productions to organizations that work for gender equality locally, nationally, or internationally.

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