December 2024 Edition: Ultimate Events Happening Soon

This year is almost history, but great things are still to come, as you’ll see in 2024’s final Ultimate Events edition. I hope you’re ready, willing, and able to celebrate what’s shaping up. Focused on sharpening skills for the new year ahead? Astute organizers are preparing to stage spectacular events guaranteed to blow minds and expand horizons. Festivals celebrating mankind’s greatest achievements in science, entertainment, and fun await, if you take the leap.

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Take your best shot on 3 Dec., Giving Tuesday

Great things are shaping up, thanks to you and everyone else making plans to participate in the annual #GivingTuesday festivities. This movement began in 2012 as an organized effort dedicated to giving back. As a result, on Tuesday, 3 Dec., charities, families, businesses, community centers, students, and others all around the world will come together to celebrate generosity and to give.

Participation is simple.

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Ready to Gobble Gobble Give?

Each year, people all across America gather-up on Thanksgiving morning for a few hours to feed the homeless. Some of these efforts are organized by Gobble Gobble Give, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity where your vital donations are 100 percent tax-deductible. For their upcoming gatherings in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, NYC, Orange County, and San Diego, participants will bring their own dishes and prepare meals using all the food that comes in (and care packages, too). Then, everyone will hit the streets together to give it all away to homeless men, women, and children.

If you are available to get involved with the Gobble Gobble Give festivities this Thanksgiving, participation only takes a few hours, and it very well might change someone’s life, including yours.

Gobble Gobble Give started with one person in 1998,

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Veterans thank veterans

In 2016, the U.S. Department of the Interior produced this presentation where 11 veterans honor all other veterans. This authentic testament powerfully expresses how all of us who have served the country feel about others who have done the same. For yours truly, it is a profound honor to lend my voice to theirs in expressing appreciation to all of those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces:

Thank you.

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Acclaimed feature documentary “Sloane: A Jazz Singer” set for October 1 release on Kinema

As announced by Director Michael Lippert, Executive Producers Stephen Barefoot and L. Taylor Arnold, and Producers Donna Campbell and Georgann Eubanks, “Sloane: A Jazz Singer” will debut on https://kinema.com on October 1st, where it will be available worldwide for video-on-demand, live, and virtual screenings. The film is also available for independent bookings.

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Ready for International Coastal Cleanup Day?

In partnership with volunteer organizations and individuals around the globe, the International Coastal Cleanup(R) (ICC) engages people to remove trash from the world’s beaches and waterways. Each year since 1986, it has been celebrated on the third Saturday of September. This year, it is set for 21 September.

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The biggest night in sports: The ESPYS

On 11 July on ABC, The ESPYS Presented by Capital One once again featured the world’s premier athletes, the sports world’s biggest stars, and the very best sports stories of the past year. Hosted by Serena Williams, this 32nd annual celebration supporting ESPN’s ongoing commitment to The V Foundation for Cancer Research was televised live from LA’s Dolby Theatre.

Abbreviated for the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly, the ESPYS honor the outstanding achievements of athletes and teams from various sports disciplines during the past year, as chosen by fans. Much more than a prestigious sports awards ceremony, the event brings together top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and sports enthusiasts to honor excellence in sports – including some of the many major initiatives aimed at improving our world.

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The Importance of Juneteenth

Juneteenth is the oldest internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States of America. Tracing back to Galveston, Texas, when Union General Gordon Granger and his troops enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all remaining slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865, it wasn’t until 2021 that Juneteenth became a federal U.S. holiday.

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World Ocean Day: Let’s protect our home

World Ocean Day has been celebrating the ocean on 8 June every year since 2002. We currently face one of the greatest threats ever to our blue planet and all its inhabitants: the climate crisis. It is all too clear that a healthy climate depends upon a healthy ocean. Ensuring this demands stronger local, national, and international action from both government and corporate leaders.

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