June 2, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ellen Greeley, 212-870-3511 / 914-525-1505 or Ellen@interfaithcenter.org
13th ANNUAL James Parks Morton INTERFAITH AWARDS DINNER
HONORING
REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON
BOB ABERNETHY
JAMES VENTURI
HOSTED BY DEAN OBEIDALLAH
MONDAY, JUNE 8 – TRIBECA ROOFTOP
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WHO THE VERY REV. JAMES PARKS MORTON, THE REV. CHLOE BREYER, COMEDIAN DEAN OBEIDALLAH , ARCHITECTURE CRITIC PAUL GOLDBERGER, AUTHOR JAMES CARROLL (previous Award recipient), MARY JANE BROCK, PAUL BINDER (Big Apple Circus), NEAL SHAPIRO (President & CEO, WNET), BILL BAKER (former CEO WNET/WLIW), LANCE BROWN (immediate past president American Institute of Architects-NY Chapter), Ms. Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Director, Safe Harbors Indigenous Arts/Theater Collective at LaMaMa Theatre, Kevin Tarrant (SilverCloud Singers)
and more
WHAT: will be on hand for the 13th Annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner honoring
REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON, SR.
Founder and President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition
(accepting award by pre-recorded videotape)
BOB ABERNETHY
Founder, Executive Editor, & Host, PBS’ Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
(introduced by Bill Baker)
JAMES VENTURI
Innovator, Documentary Filmmaker, & Urban Planner
(son of Architects/Planners Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown)
(introduced by Paul Goldberger)
The evening’s festivities will be hosted by The Dean of Comedy Dean Obeidallah.
WHEN: MONDAY, JUNE 8 – 6:30 PM
WHERE: TRIBECA ROOFTOP, 2 DESBROSSES STREET (INTERSECTION OF CANAL & HUDSON STREETS), 12TH FLOOR
PLEASE NOTE: ALL MEDIA — TV CREWS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, REPORTERS — MUST BE CLEARED FOR COVERAGE IN ADVANCE. ONLY THOSE WITH CLEARANCE WILL BE ADMITTED. PLEASE CALL 212-819-1133 FOR CREDENTIALS. SPACE IS LIMITED.
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, former Vice President Al Gore, 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.
