2010 Events
2010 Events
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2010
10 November 2010 "Picture The Friendship" Facebook Contest The U.S. Embassy Facebook Page is asking fans to “Picture the Friendship” between the United States and United Kingdom. Fans have until November 29 to submit their image of what best represents the bonds between the UK and the U.S.
05 November 2010 VIDEO - Bringing New American Jazz Improv to the Bernie Grant Arts Centre Napoleon Maddox & IsWhat?!, a hip-hop/Jazz group from the United States host a workshop for young musicians during their recent trip to the UK.
14 September 2010 A Celebration Marking Eid al-Fitr
Muslim community leaders from throughout the United Kingdom gathered
with Ambassador and Mrs. Susman at Winfield House on September 14 for a
reception to commemorate the conclusion of Ramadan.
• Ambassador Louis B. Susman's Remarks for Eid Al-Fitr
10 September 2010 U.S. Embassy Volunteers Commemorate September 11th at Battersea Park's 'American Ground' Nearly 100 U.S. Embassy volunteers will participate in a Day of Service event to commemorate September 11th. Volunteers will restore the ‘American Ground,’ a 19th century garden in Battersea Park that will benefit from upgrading. The project, planned in conjunction with Wandsworth Council and Thrive, is the latest event in the Embassy’s ongoing volunteering program to build bridges with our future community in Wandsworth. The project is close to the location of the new U.S. Embassy site in Nine Elms.
09 September 2010 Ambassador Susman's Remarks to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Scotland 30th Annual Dinner
24 June 2010 Ambassador Susman Praises Fulbright Scholars Ambassador Susman greeted newly-elected Fulbright Scholars at a high-level reception hosted at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
22 June 2010 Battersea Park Library Exhibit Showcases New Embassy Design Battersea Park library hosted an exhibition showing the winning design for the new American embassy planned for Nine Elms as part of this month's London Festival of Architecture. Embassy press attaché Philip Breeden gave a talk at the library to 40 local residents to outline how the Nine Elms site was chosen, how the design was developed, and how the new building hopes to contribute to the Nine Elms regeneration project.
18 May 2010 The UK-U.S. Alliance: Still Special or Just Another Partnership? Remarks by Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, Sandra Kaiser at the Royal United Services Institute.
11 May 2010 Simon Wiesenthal Center Premiers Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny at U.S. Embassy London Ambassador and Mrs. Susman hosted the event alongside the Founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Marvin Hier. The night celebrated the 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill accepting the role of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
29 April 2010 VIDEO: U.S. Contributes to Global Millennium Seed Bank Project To celebrate Earth Day, Environment Officer Sonia Laul travelled to Kew Gardens, London to find out about the Millennium Seed Bank Project.
17 March 2010 The Policies and Priorities of the Obama Administration
26 February 2010 Birmingham Business Speech
26 February 2010 U.S. Embassy Consular Staff Volunteer at Thrive’s Battersea Garden Project
25 February 2010 Ambassador Susman at Birmingham University
25 February 2010 Ambassador Susman at the
University of Manchester
• FLICKR: Ambassador
Susman on Coronation Street
• FLICKR: Meeting with
Lord Mayor of Manchester
16 April 2010 Bristol
Community Celebrates Social
Cohesion through Music with Help of U.S. Embassy From April
12-16,
eighteen Fairfield High School students from diverse backgrounds
learned improvisational
techniques and traditional music skills such as rhythm, pitch and
melody during
a weeklong songwriting workshop aimed at encouraging individual
creativity and
community cohesion through music. Three instructors from the
U.S.-based
Modern Improvisational Music Association (MIMA), with funding from
the U.S. Embassy,
led the workshops, in partnership with Bristol’s American-born High
Sheriff
Peaches Golding, OBE.
• Photos from the event are on Flickr!
• Video: U.S. Embassy Sponsors Songwriting Workshop for Schoolchildren in Bristol
• You can listen to the full song her (MP3 4:27).
15 January 2010 U.S. Embassy London Commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The United States Embassy will commemorate the life and work of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through two events honoring his legacy on Monday, January 18, 2010. In the morning U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman and embassy staff will participate in a volunteer event at St. Matthias Church in Poplar and in the afternoon Ambassador Susman will host prominent civil rights activists and students for a memorial concert and reading at his residence.