A Taste of Timor
press release: Enjoy a delicious helping of international understanding and learn about one of Madison's sister cities at "A Taste of Timor"! This celebration of solidarity with the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste is on Sunday, May 20, from 9:30 to 11:30 am at the Goodman Community Center on Madison's east side. That's the 16th anniversary of Timor-Leste's independence day.
The event will include Timorese coffee and other refreshments, Timorese music, and video snapshots of life in Timor-Leste and Ainaro, Madison's mountainous sister city. There will also be a silent auction, with traditional Timorese weavings and other hand-made crafts.
Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased online at: aideasttimor.org or at the door. Information available by email at: madison@etan.org .
Thanks to Bandung Indonesian Restaurant, Willy Street Co-op, EVP Coffee and WORT 89.9 fm for their co-sponsorship of the event.
All funds raised benefit Timorese community-led projects. Madison and Ainaro became official sister cities in 2001. The Madison-Ainaro Sister City Alliance is coordinated by the East Timor Action Network-Madison, which has been active since the early 1990s, in support of self-determination and human rights in Timor-Leste.
Visit the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/