BRIDGES AT A GLANCE

Why Bridges?
by founder Phil Borges

MEDIA CONTACTS

Joyce McClure
Executive Director
206-925-5301
c: 818-497-5058
joyce@bridgesweb.org

Annie Von Essen
Communications and Marketing Manager
206-925-5311
annie@bridgesweb.org

LATEST PRESS RELEASES

• 08 December 2008: Bridges announces interim Executive Director
• 08 December 2008: Tibetan student visits Aki Kurose class
• 01 December 2008: Geography students at Aki Kurose create and share digital stories on global issues with students in India
• 01 April 2008: Garfield High and visiting Bridges South African students exchange compassion boxes April 9
• 01 April 2008: International Bridges students explore Pike Place Market on April 4 as they create multimedia digital stories
• 10 March 2008: Cross-cultural exchange via live videoconference between students from Seattle's Nathan Hale High School, Palestine and Israel scheduled for March 12

BRIDGES IN THE NEWS

• Bridges in the Northwest School winter 2008 magazine
• Visiting international youth profiled in fall 2008 Abroad View
• Aki Kurose featured in Seattle Public Schools "School Beat" e-newsletter
• Growing up in exile, Tibetan kids still connected to the world
  (Seattle P-I)
• Bridges on KING TV:
  • Seattle students discuss their video conference with Israeli and Palestinian youth
    
  • Bridges Video pals changing student lives
    
• Bridges in Seattle School Beat newsletter - scroll to middle to see article about Nathan Hale video conference with Israeli and Palestinian youth
• Bridges on Peace Talks Radio
• Jessica Markowitz, a local Bridges student at Seattle Girls School, formed "Richard's Rwanda" to support educational opportunities for Rwandan girls.
  Read the Seattle PI article,
  or watch a short video about the project.

BRIDGES EVENTS

Coming Soon:

• March 21, 2009 - London, England: Bridges digital story "Women Empowerment" to screen in Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
• Spring 2009 (dates tba )- San Francisco, CA, USA: Bridges digital story "Women Empowerment" included in Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Recent events:

• Fall 2008 - Boston, MASS, USA: Bridges digital story included in Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
• August 6, 2008 - Johannesburg, South Africa: National Women's Day Commemoration, a panel discussion and Africa launch of "Women Empowered" photo exhibition
• June 20-21, 2008 - New York, NY, USA: Bridges digital story, Single Mothers, selected from 250 entries for world premiere of YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE at the 19th annual New York Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater.
• March 13 - April 16: Bridges Face to Face student exchange
• April 10 - 15: Seeds of Compassion conference