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November 28 —  We hope you had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends. Georgia fans are celebrating a 45-0 win over Ga. Tech to finish the regular season 12-0. Georgia plays Alabama next Saturday in the SEC Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

🕎 Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!

🍩 We have a fun story on the significance of donuts and Hanukkah. More on some community events in our first story below. 


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I. Holiday Events 

What a difference a year makes! The pandemic squashed most of last year’s holiday fun, but festive events are plentiful this December. Whether you’re marking Christmas, Chanukah, or New Year’s Eve, there’s something for everyone.

Here are a few of our favorite holiday happenings:

🕎 The Jewish Festival of Lights known as Chanukah (or Hanukkah, both are acceptable) begins at sundown tonight. Community menorah lightings are happening in
 Va-Hi (tonight), Atlantic Station (Mon.), and PCM (Thur., more below). 

❄️ The Illuminarium Atlanta, the immersive virtual-reality attraction on the Eastside BeltLine, has transformed into Winterland through Jan. 2. See enchanting views of the Northern Lights and forest creatures darting through snow landscapes.

⛸️  A bunch of holiday events are coming to Ponce City Market, including the annual Menorah Lighting Ceremony with Chabad Intown on Dec. 2. Skate the Sky ice skating on the roof, Fireside Roasting & Toasting Pods for groups of four to make s’mores, and a family-friendly celebration to welcome 2022 called Noon Year’s Eve on Dec. 3.

🎄 Leslie Odom, Jr.’s The Christmas Tour spotlights the award-winning vocalist, songwriter and actor on Dec. 15 at 8 p.m
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s schedule includes Holiday Concert at Reinhardt University, Dec. 15 Holiday Concert at North Ave. Presbyterian Church, Dec. 16; Handel’s Messiah, Dec. 17-18; Holiday Concert in Madison, Georgia, Dec. 17; and New Year’s Eve Celebration at City Springs, Dec. 31.

🌟 Check out a longer list holiday events happening throughout the metro area.

II. Yehimi Cambrón elevates immigrant stories

🦋 Yehimi Cambrón is a spirited artist, who’s dedicated to drawing attention to the often unheard struggles of Georgia’s immigrant communities. Her aim is to educate and inform the viewer, while providing actionable steps to improve immigrant lives.

When Cambrón was just 27-years-old, she became the first-ever undocumented artist to show work at the High Museum of Art. Since then, her reputation has provided unique access to other far-reaching institutions. 

Her latest exhibit, #ChingaLaMigra, currently installed in the Atlanta Contemporary’s Sliver Space, features 1,996 hand-cut, water-painted butterflies pinned to the walls and suspended from the ceiling. The number represents the detainees at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia — the largest immigrant detention center in the country. 

Our writer and photographer Isadora Pennington recently spent 
an afternoon with Cambrón, discussing how her work elevates the stories of undocumented people in the South while celebrating their dignity and humanity through their portraits and their own words and stories.
III. The Tender Foundation

❤️ A year ago, Atlanta Intown wrote about The Tender Foundation, a burgeoning non-profit group that helps mothers shift from crisis mode to stabilization, providing assistance with everything from a lack of affordable housing available in the city to high childcare costs and low, or no, income or support.

At the time our story ran, the fledgling Atlanta nonprofit had helped keep 60 families in their homes with rental assistance, paid 36 utility bills, and given grocery store gift cards to 39 mothers. 


Revisit the Atlanta Intown piece here, and support Tender at this link.

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