photo by Sophia Hantzes
aMaze Director Mary Ann Bradley with TPT President and CEO Jim Pagliarini and aMaze's 2005 Families All Matter Award
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aMaze's Welcoming Buster
Event Is Huge Success!
In a celebration of family diversity, over 700 kids and families packed the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis to watch Buster's Sugartime! episode together on March 23, 2005. Minneapolis Mayor Rybak presented 'Buster' with a carrot key to the city and proclaimed the day "Welcoming Buster Day " (click to see proclamation). TPT's President and CEO Jim James Pagliarini received aMaze's 2005 Families ALL Matter award for bringing Sugartime! to Minnnesota.
Sugartime! is the Postcards from Buster episode that was criticized by some for its inclusion of families with gay parents. The episode focuses on Buster the rabbit's visit to a Vermont dairy farm and maple sugar shack. Buster joins his new friends' family for a fun dinner, where he meets the kids' two moms.
photo by Sophia Hantzes
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak gives Buster a carrot key to the city
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It's not too late to act to support Buster's travels to visit American families.
For more information, contact aMaze by phone at 612-724-4323 or by email at info@amazeworks.org.
Visit the aMaze website at www.amazeworks.org.
photo by Sophia Hantzes
Buster with aMaze's Mary Ann Bradley and TPT President Jim Pagliarini
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photo by Sophia Hantzes
"Yippee, I'm welcome in Minneapolis!"
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sponsored by aMaze
aMaze is a non-profit organization of parents, educators and other caring adults working to create safe and respectful communities by promoting the knowledge and skills needed to work together across differences. Through the Families All Matter Book Project, aMaze allows children to explore diversity issues through reading. aMaze also provides presentations and consultation to groups seeking to cultivate their understanding of diversity.
www.amazeworks.org
Event co-sponsored by
Alliance of Early Childhood Professionals
Annex Teen Clinic
Bethany Lutheran Church
COLAGE: Children of Lesbian and Gays Everywhere
DFL Progressive Caucus
Family and Children's Service
First Unitarian Society
First Universalist Church
Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association (GMDCA)
Lutherans Concerned - Twin Cities
Lyndale United Church of Christ
Mayflower UCC Church
Minneapolis Board of Education
Minnesota Psychological Association
Minnesota School OUTreach Coalition-MSOC
Out for Equity (St. Paul Public Schools)
OutFront Minnesota
PACER: Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
People of Faith in Action
Plymouth Congregational Church Outreach Board
Rainbow Families
RainbowMagazine.org
Shir Tikvah Congregation
Southside Family School
St. Paul-Ramsey County Dept. of Public Health
St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church/Wingspan Ministry
The Naming Project
Tolerance Minnesota, a program of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)
Unity Church-Unitarian of St. Paul
Unity South Church
Washburn Child Guidance Center
YWCA Minneapolis
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