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Don't miss taking part in our Journal. For information click here to download the two-page flyer.
Join the Celebration!
The resolution to designate 21 March
as "World Down Syndrome Day", to be observed every year beginning in 2012, was adopted by consensus during the plenary
meeting of the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday 10 November 2011. Per announcement by Down Syndrome International
Click here to download letter from DSI
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March 4, 2012, at 3 p.m. 
Alexander's Angels Charity Night at NY Islanders!
Click here to download flyer
----------------------- March 19, 2012, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Island-wide
celebration of World Down Syndrome Day at all L.I. Friendly's restaurants and at Avon, CT! Great Tasting Night to raise funds for research.
----------------------- March 20 to March 31, 2012 5th DOWNrightART Event--With artwork at its center, the following activities are being planned from March 21st to the
23rd: a symposium on Down syndrome research, a symposium on and for siblings, a film festival, concerts by musicians
with Down syndrome, writers, self-advocates... more! The schedule of activities is "under construction" and
will be posted soon.click here to see past events
Artwork from the following artists
is confirmed; more may be included: Erik
Behnke, AK, USA; Ashley Birckhead, NC, USA; Charles Brennan, L.I., NY, USA; Jane Cameron (deceased) Canada; David Danis, MA,
USA; Christopher Diedo (Photography), United Kingdom; Daniel Forsythe, TX, USA; David Guhl, Australia; Michael Jurogue Johnson,
IL, USA; Dylan Kuehl, WA, USA; Daniel Makar, L.I., NY, USA; Kyle O'Neil, CT, USA; Bernadette Resha, TN, USA; Marilin Rivera,
Puerto Rico; Jennifer White, AZ, USA
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