Guided Search: Business and Commerce, Immigrants

SUKHISHILI has performed for fifty million people in eighty-eight countries on five continents. It was a headline attraction with New York City Ballet for the George Balanchine Centennial. It has previously performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden Albert Hall, the Rome Coliseum and La Scala where it was enthusiastically welcomed with rousing ovation and a record-setting number of curtain calls.

Free Family Fun! Brazilian Day Philadelphia 2015 is the much awaited annual celebration of Brazil’s rich culture. Though only in its second year in Philadelphia, our festival boasts an empowering mission to bring the best of Brazil to Philadelphia, build community, and celebrate diversity.

Smart cities understand that immigrants are key to a vibrant urban economy and regional economic growth. The challenge is how to attract and retain immigrant skill and talent in an increasingly competitive race to the top. How do we create a welcoming economy? How are smart cities making the business case for the economic opportunities that immigrants bring to the community at large, while fostering new opportunities for innovation and wealth creation? Join Steve Tobocman, Executive Director of Global Detroit, for an online conversation for how we can revitalize regional economies through immigrant attraction and retention, employment, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and internationalization of cities, workplaces and institutions. Interview hosted by Sarah Wayland, Project Lead of Global Hamilton.

Presented by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Select Greater Philadelphia, the annual State of the Region event provides an overview of key industry accomplishments in Greater Philadelphia that are accelerating the region’s growth as a premier business location. In addition, the event will hone in on the emerging digital healthcare innovation sector and our potential to lead this national movement by capitalizing on the region’s existing resources.

This 7th Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC) Annual Expo is a community event to showcase various service providers that serve the Asian community with issues, such as Housing, Problem Gambling, Social Services and Youth program, and to increase familiarity of the Chinatown community with those providers who have not yet had a chance to outreach to the members of the community.

Are you a descendant of an Indigenous group of this continent? Are you of mixed blood Native, Indigenous? Do you speak an Indigenous language of this continent? If you do, or know someone who is, we want to hear your history. We want to hear your voice. We want to hear you life.

This historical documentary walks you through the evolution of the Slow Food Movement, started in Italy by Carlo Petrini. Launched from his tiny hometown of Bra Italy (27,000 inhabitants) the Slow Food movement has grown to become a global life-style and political phenomenon that boasts a network of over 170 chapters in 150 countries. Our Guest Speaker Andrea Canepari will provide us with some background on the evolution of the movement, its roots in Italy that now have inspired chapters around the world.

Join Danny Lopez, British Consul General in New York and Director General of UK Trade and Investment in the United States. About the Embassy Series: The World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia and the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia are pleased to present the 2015 Embassy Series, a program that will bring to Philadelphia senior international diplomats and experts for an informal evening of building new relationships and sharing business opportunities and practices, the culture and cuisine of countries around the world.