2024 Solidarity Festival Invitation

This year's Solidarity Festival will be held on Friday, April 12th from noon to 2 p.m. in the JFK Student Lounge. The event is CES approved and will have tables and displays from a dozen various departments, clubs, and external community organizations on the theme of poverty and food insecurity. 
Everyone is invited to come and have fun with international food and snack tasting, protein sources with edible insects, learn about food waste, food resources, master gardening, sustainable farming, play the "Guess the Price" quiz game, make frozen treats with R.O.C.K. and gain knowledge about clean water from the Center for Watershed Research.

The event will also feature a food drive benefitting the Dorothy Day Community Outreach Center and two special presentations.  At 12:15 p.m. Erica Goble, a Nutritionist/CPA and Outreach Coordinator from Community Action Partnership of Cambria County WIC (Women Infant Children) Program will be presenting on the benefits of WIC to the community.  At 1:15 p.m., Justin Kurtz, who is the Community Connections Partnership Coordinator for Cambria and Indiana Counties, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, will be presenting on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Both of the presentations are CES-approved events. See the attached Solidarity Fest Information for more details!