Ai NEW YORK CITY FINANCIAL AID PLANNER WALKING FOR A GOOD CAUSE

Ai New York City Financial Aid Planner Cekina Dilligard and her team "FabulousMommys.com" will be getting their walk on at AidsWalk New York 2013 on Sunday, May 19 and they need your help in the form of donations to this great cause!  Their goal is to raise at least $250. 

The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. with walkers signing in at the 59th Street and Fifth Avenue entrance followed by an opening ceremony at 9:15 a.m.  The actual walk will start at 10:00 a.m.  The team will walk 6.2 miles.  The whole walk generally takes about 2.5 hours to complete. 

For more information on joining the walk or to support Cekina and her team, go to http://www.aidswalk.net/newyork. 

To support the FabulousMommys.com team click on "search for your team", enter in the team name and click "search".  Click on the FabulousMommys.com link and you will see a "give now" button.  Click on that "give now" button and follow the instructions.

So what are you waiting for?  Visit www.aidswalk.net and help Cekina and the FabulousMommys.com team reach their goal!

CREATING TOMORROW ... ONE SIGN AT A TIME

Ai New York City part-time faculty member Marcos Chavez worked with his graphic design students at to create a guerrilla wayfinding / information hacking project for his Graphic Symbolism class.

Students worked together to manipulate signage throughout the school creating surprising and inspiring messages. Students used altered symbols, icons and typography to create witty replacements to the common signage within Ai New York City's interior.

A sampling of the signage appears below.  Great job all! 



Watch Your Dub-Step/High Five If You Won't Give Up




Women-Wheelchair Accessible Bathroom/Up-Down Elevator






"Fright" Elevator/Wheelchair-Accessible Mens' Bathroom/Exit




Men Bathroom




Fire Extinguisher




"Ai Create Tamales"



CALLING ALL AI NEW YORK CITY STUDENTS!

The Ai New York City Career Services Team will be hosting a part-time hiring event on Wednesday, April 24 from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. in the Gallery.  Not only will Ai New York City be interviewing for Student Admissions Ambassador positions, representatives from Skechers, Guess, Pier 1 Imports, Paragon, Custo Barcelona and Primerica among others will be on hand to interview students for part-time jobs. 

If you need additional details on interview strategies, resume preparation, applications for Ai New York City Student Admissions Ambassador or the job fair itself please contact Trent Rhodes, Student Employment Advisor at 212-625-6036 or e-mail him at trhodes@aii.edu.

So what are you waiting for?  Mark your calendars and contact Trent for more details!

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

Ai New York City faculty member Monica Spence has just announced that her book "Love Is Not Proud" was released as an e-book on Monday and will be released in print soon. 

It is currently available from the e-Treasures Publishing (www.etreasures.com ) and will be made available soon on both the Barnes & Noble and Amazon websites. 

Congratulations Monica!

DO SOMETHING SPECIAL - VOLUNTEER!

As part of Education Management Corporation's community service initiatives, Ai New York City invites all staff, faculty and students to do something that gives back to their respective communities. The possibilities are endless and one suggestion on how you can do this appears below:

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network will be hosting their annual "Purple Stride New York City 2013", a 5K run/walk race on Saturday, April 20 at Riverside Park in Manhattan (near 108th Street).  They are urgently in need of volunteers to set-up, monitor pre-race and in-race stations as well as cleanup after the race.  The race is a rundraising and awareness event that is managed entirely by local volunteers like you!

Pancreatic Cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers and is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States, yet only receives two percent of the federal cancer research budget. 

For more information and to register as a volunteer go to http://www.purplestride.org/newyorkcity/ and click on "REGISTER", then "CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE NOW".  Once you accept the waiver Select "JOIN AS AN INDIVIDUAL", fill out your contact information and select "VOLUNTEER: NO FEE" .  You will receive an e-mail confirmation where you follow the prompts on how to select the area where you prefer to volunteer. 

So what are you waiting for?  Do something good for your community ... volunteer!

A COMPOSER IN OUR MIDST

Ai New York City faculty member Kallie Buccola is not only inspiring our students to "Create Tomorrow", she is also a music composer!

One of her compositions "Nothing's Ever Finished" will be performed at Elebash Concert Hall (CUNY Graduate Center) located at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) on Friday evening April 5 starting at 7:15 p.m.  The performance featuring Kallie Marie's music and Loni Landon's choreography is part of The 2013 New York City Electroaccoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), a week-long series of concerts performed at several locations around New York City.  The concert at Elebash Hall is free to the general public. 

For more information, please check out http://www.nycemf.org .

If you to do something for free in NYC, come out on Friday evening to support Kallie's efforts!