May 30, 2014
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12th ANNUAL James Parks Morton INTERFAITH AWARDS DINNER
HONORING
THE HONORABLE AL GORE
PETER L. ZIMROTH
GAETANA ENDERS
HIS HOLINESS SRI SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA (posthumous)
HOSTED BY SERGE SCHMEMANN
THURSDAY, JUNE 5 – HILTON HOTEL MIDTOWN
WHO: THE VERY REV. JAMES PARKS MORTON, THE REV. CHLOE BREYER, ACTRESS KARENNA GORE SCHIFF, ESTELLE PARSONS (Tony Award nominee for Velocity of Autumn/Mrs. Peter Zimroth), NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALIST SERGE SCHMEMANN, SUSANA TORRUELLA LEVAL, (AUTHOR JAMES CARROLL (previous Award recipient), ACTOR PATRICK CARROLL, MARY JANE BROCK, PAUL BINDER (Big Apple Circus), DR. DEAN ORNISH, BILL BAKER (former CEO WNET/WLIW), MIRRA BANK (Director/Producer), FREDERIC “FRITZ” A.O. SCHWARZ (great-grandson of FAO Schwarz founder) and more
WHAT: will be on hand for the 12th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner honoring
THE HONORABLE AL GORE – 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2007
PETER L. ZIMROTH – Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP and Director, Center on Civil Justice, NYU Law School
GAETANA ENDERS – Humanitarian and International Editor, Hola Magazine – (died suddenly on May 21, 2014 – posthumous)
HIS HOLINESS SRI SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA (posthumous) – Interfaith Visionary and Founder, Integral Yoga International. Accepting the award is Dean Ornish, M.D.
The evening’s festivities will be hosted by New York Times writer and editorial board member, Serge Schmemann. A sneak peek of dramatic readings of excerpts from The Very Reverend James Parks Morton’s forthcoming memoir will be performed by musical theatre stars Mary Lou Barber, Edward Pleasant and Ben Rauch. Broadway veteran Jonathan Cerullo of JSC Theatricals serves as script creator and event producer.
WHEN: THURSDAY, JUNE 5 – 6:30 PM
WHERE: HILTON HOTEL MIDTOWN, SIXTH AVENUE & 53RD STREET, MERCURY BALLROOM – THIRD FLOOR
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The Interfaith Center of New York, founded in 1997, is a secular educational non-profit organization which seeks to make New York City and the world safe for religious differences by increasing respect and mutual understanding among people of different faiths, ethnic and cultural traditions and by fostering cooperation among religious communities and civic organizations to solve common social problems.
The James Parks Morton Interfaith Award is named for ICNY’s founder and Chair Emeritus, The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, who served as Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for 25 years and today remains as an active ICNY Board member. As a visionary Episcopal spiritual leader, he created a thriving creative community where cutting-edge cultural, ecological and social justice programs were incubated and successfully implemented.
The Rev. Chloe Breyer, Executive Director, joined ICNY in 2007. The Rev. Breyer is an Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of New York and serves as Associate Priest at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Central Harlem. From 2000-2003, she founded and directed the Cathedral Forums on Religious and Pubic Life at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Following 9/11/2001, she worked on an interfaith initiative to rebuild a mosque in Afghanistan destroyed by U.S. bombs. Chloe is the author of The Close: A Young Woman’s First Year at Seminary (Basic Books 2000) with chapter contributions to What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World (Church Publishing 205) and Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel (Beacon Press 2006).
Previous Interfaith Award recipients include former President Bill Clinton, James Carroll, Wynton Marsalis, Alan Slifka, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), Nina & Daniel Libeskind, Shirin Ebadi (2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, Philippe Petit, Santiago & Robertina Calatrava, Richard Gere, Amma, Imam Feisal Rauf, Nicholas D. Kristof, Paul Winter, The Hon. Stephen Breyer, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei (2005 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), Carl Sagan, Steven C. Rockefeller, Rev. Kyotaro DeGuchi, Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Vartan Gregorian, Rabbi Awraham Soetendor, Leymah Gbowee (2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) and Abigail E. Disney.
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