Parallel Cultures

Hi Everyone! Tis the season! Normally Parallel Cultures team would be busy planning our 3rd Annual ! But as you can see, thanks to US Dept of Education’s Fulbright Scholar for GSU educators program, I’m busy in Brazil! This is in part for my efforts toward curriculum development for GSU students AND our K-6 kiddos! Which means This year Parallel Cultures is planning for even bigger activities through school year!! Your contributions will ensure that each of our kids receive special gifts from Bahia, Brazil; the heart of the African Diaspora AND that we continue efforts during fall semester! Visit: www.parallelcultures.org/donate

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in Morven, NC is back!

We welcomed our 2022 cohort and new friends at Morven Elementary School. After reviewing some keywords from last summer’s program we hit the ground running

* Engaging with cultures of the African diaspora 🌍
* Designing our chef hats and aprons with our favorite foods 👨🏾‍🍳
* Reading “Stoney The Vegan: Pizza Night” 👩🏾‍🌾
* Preparing everyone’s favorite food, pizza— but vegan with author and chef 🍕
* Creating negative space paintings with Ryan 🎨
* And more!

Today, Monday, June 12, 2023 is the first day of Parallel Cultures Week as proclaimed by Mayor Timothy Watkins of Morven, North Carolina. Parallel Cultures Week is being recognized from June 12th -June 17th in honor of the second annual Culture, Leadership, and Knowledge Camp ( ). This year’s is themed Health and Wellness in the Diaspora.

Read the official proclamation and tune in all week for more insight on on our activities and program.

Donate at parallelcultures.org.

Dear All! Parallel Cultures, Inc. is Live! You can NOW find out more about us, our past work, and our upcoming endeavors. You can also NOW find out how you or your organization can partner with us, sponsor, donate books, etc. AND You can NOW CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLY all by visiting our website https://www.parallelcultures.org

Help us reach our 5K goal!! Spread the word, Share the link!

This summer, we plan to run our 2nd Annual Culture, Leadership, and Knowledge Camp in Morven, NC. Help us make this year's camp bigger and better than ever! In addition to facilitating a range of cultural-based activities, including health and wellness, we also provide free lunch and snacks, free books, learning materials to last throughout the year, and PC "Swag" to each of our students. This year our goal is to take the students on a local college tour! Make your Mark and Make a Difference!

Not to mention, we do activities throughout the school year!

Be sure to follow and like us on Facebook and IG!

--Dr. Masonya J. Bennett, Founder and Executive Directo

Parallel Cultures, Inc. Illuminate. Enrich. Inspire. Parallel Cultures is shaping the next generation of global citizens. Our Vision Illuminating new possibilities through education and travel. Enriching and broadening cultural awareness and global perspectives. Inspiring a generation of successful global citizens through....

Today we did Pizza and Progress Party!! We caught up on how our first Cohort is doing mid-year. A lot of great things accomplished and new goals for the upcoming!! Oh! The kids finally got to hear the song they worked on this summer after final production! 🙌🏽

Hey all! Tis the season for giving AND my bday! Last summer, with YOUR help and contributions, my nonprofit Parallel Cultures launched our first Culture, Leadership and Knowledge for the kids of Morven. Morven kids were able to learn abt African/Diaspora history and culture from Harvard fellows AND gain exposure to everything from developing Apps w/ researchers/designers from Apple and Google to tasting African/Caribbean foods to making beats w/renowned HipHop scholar, Wendel Patrick! This upcoming summer, we want to take the kids on a NC College/Knowledge tour! Help us get an early start in reaching our 5K goal!! This will be what we need to continue to Illuminate. Enrich. Inspire. Click below to contribute! Please Share and Follow us!:
(Parallel Cultures is a registered 501c3 organization based in Morven, NC. ALL proceeds go to enrichment based endeavors for the organization)

•PayPal: tinyurl.com/DonateCLKSummerCamp

•Amazon: tinyurl.com/CLKSummerCampSupplies

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Ayy!! We made it!! Check out article to see more of what we did in our very first in Morven, NC!

Global to local: Youth leadership and cultural camp launches in Morven | Anson Record MORVEN — This summer, Dr. Masonya J. Bennett launched Parallel Cultures, Inc. with the first annual “Culture, Leadership and Knowledge” camp held between June 13-17, 2022 at Morven Elementary School.

Revisiting our first annual ! Students learned about the CONTINENT of Africa with Dr. Masonya Bennett and Ms. Semhal who is from Ethiopia! Afterwards, Dr. Marwa, from Egypt, showed students how to make Papyrus (ancient Egyptian paper)! Later in the week students painted their names in Egyptian Heiroglyphics! Students were even able to connect Adinkra symbols (west African) to Egyptian Heiroglyphs (Northeast African) and today’s emojis 🤯 Comment below to see how YOU can contribute!

Watch this reel by semytheistanbully on Instagram

Thanks to Ms. Semhal Hagos, Grant Manager and Public Information Officer at the Washington D.C Mayors Office on African Affairs AND Dr. Marwa Ghazali, WEB Dubois Fellow at The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University for coming ALL the way to Anson County/Morven NC to share a week of culture and knowledge!!!