The official opening of “The Transformative Power of Art,” an exhibition organized by Sam Kahamba Kutesa, President of the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, will take place in the Visitors’ Lobby on Tuesday, 30 June, at 6 p.m.
An opening ceremony for the exhibition entitled “We the Peoples: Norman Rockwell’s United Nations” will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, 29 June, in the Visitors’ Lobby (gallery B).
The story of celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini’s opposition to fascism and Nazism during the Second World War will be told at United Nations Headquarters on Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
The “Nuclear-Free World: Cries from Hiroshima and Nagasaki" exhibition will be launched with a special ceremony on Monday, 27 April, at 6 p.m. in the Visitors’ Lobby.
The United Nations Department of Public Information, the United States Mission to the United Nations and Paramount Pictures will organize a special screening of the movie Selma for the United Nations diplomatic community and staff members. The event will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, 23 April, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
An exhibition entitled Indigenous Peoples Housing and Sustainable Settlements will open with a cultural event and reception on Tuesday, 21 April, at 6:15 p.m. in the United Nations Visitors’ Lobby, marking the fourteenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will launch a Call to Action on World Autism Awareness Day, 2 April, inviting businesses to make concrete commitments to employ persons with autism.
Beginning on Monday, 30 March, in New York and around the world, the tenth observance of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action will begin.
An opening ceremony for a multimedia exhibition entitled “Water for Life Voices” will be held at 12:45 p.m. on Monday, 30 March, in the Visitors’ Lobby (Gallery A).
The United Nations observes on 25 March the eighth International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
