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Dragon puppet show teaches Asian culture

Dragon puppet show teaches Asian culture

by | Jun 21, 2017 | In The News

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By JOSHUA SOLOMON
Recorder Staff
Friday, June 16, 2017

GREENFIELD — Dragons from across Asia spoke to moms using the voices of a dozen or so kids.

What was going on was, of course, a puppet show.

Who was presenting? The children of the parents, who gathered in downtown Greenfield to watch a presentation three months in the making.

Thursday evening The Salasin Center’s Family United Network F.U.N. Center, put on a dragon puppet show as an effort for the families to learn about a culture they may not have known.

“We looked at what cultures are well represented in this area and what aren’t and the Asian culture isn’t so we wanted to expose that to our kids,” Salasin Center’s Vickie Hutchinson said, who was a co-coordinator of the project that was funded with a Mass Cultural Council grant.

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Dragon puppet show teaches Asian culture

State awards $6M to Western Massachusetts domestic violence service providers

by | May 11, 2017 | In The News

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Greenfield – May 11, 2017

By Anne-Gerard Flynn Special to The Republican

The state has awarded some $34 million in contracts each year for the next three years under a competitive bidding process to organizations that provide services to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse.

Some 10 Western Massachusetts organizations received total annual contract determined awards of more than $6.4 million…The Western Massachusetts Training Consortium’s Salasin Project received an annual contract of $327,348 for general community-based domestic violence services.

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