Tag - Cultural

Eleasa Kim: Pioneering CLDP Payload Operations and Cultural Integration

Eleasa Kim, stationed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, leads the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) payload operations at Johnson Space Center, with 18 years of mission support under her belt. Her roles have included biomedical engineer flight controller, payload safety engineer for Artemis I, planning and analysis branch operations...

Puffin Cultural Forum presents “Honoring Pete Seeger”

September 16, 2014 During the summer of 2014 thousands of people came together in various locations to honor the lives of music activists and the work of Pete & Toshi Seeger. The Puffin Cultural Forum is proud to continue honoring the outstanding couple through the months of September and October with “Honoring Pete Seeger.” Events during the months of September...

Puffin Cultural Forum Gallery is Open

September 27, 2015 The gallery is open to the public from Tuesdays to Thursdays from 12pm to 4pm.  Appointments can be requested by calling 201-836-3499 or emailing *protected email*.  Currently on view is exhibition “Thinking in Spanish.” In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, The Puffin Cultural Forum presents works of Josephine Barreiro, Rodriguez Calero, Gabriel...

Puffin Cultural Forum Exhibit “Conversations, 2016”

February 12, 2016 A selection of images from Conversations, 2016 is now viewable virtually. We look back on the tumultuous dialogue of recent discussion on race and progress, or lack thereof. Curated by artist and curator Lehna Huie and Puffin Cultural Forum’s Andrew Lee, Conversations presents a mosaic of expressions, ideas, and emotions by contemporary Black...

Linguistic and Cultural Revitalization in Indian Country

Linguistic and Cultural Revitalization in Indian Country: Lessons for Philanthropy by Brooke Mosay Ammann This article is the fourth in a series that Nonprofit Quarterly, in partnership with the First Nations Development Institute, is publishing this fall. It features Native American nonprofit leaders who highlight the practices of community building in Indian...

Perry and Gladys Rosenstein Honored for 20 Years of Puffin Cultural Forum

June 13, 2017   Perry and Gladys Rosenstein, right, receive gifts from their grandchildren, Oskar and Fraya, as their son, Neal Rosenstein looks on. The occasion was a dinner honoring the Rosensteins on the 20th anniversary of Teaneck’s Puffin Cultural Forum, supported by the family’s Puffin Foundation. Photo courtesy of Rachel Banai “It started with a suggestion...

Puffin Cultural Forum: CALL FOR ART

February 14, 2018 Our upcoming show aims to discuss gender, vulnerability, and unbalanced power dynamics – topics that are at the forefront of our political and personal consciousness. Artists are invited to submit work that reflects on the impact of inequality, power imbalances, and oppressive rhetoric on the negotiations that happen in our most personal...