America Days in Madurai - American College and Gandhi Museum

Madurai, Sept 27 (PTI)

The U.S.Consulate General, Chennai, organized a four-day programme "America Days", showcasing its cultural and educational resources, at the American College (AC) and the Gandhi Museum here from tomorrow. The event, organized for the first time out side the state capital, gave an insight into the U.S Consulate's cultural and educational resources, including those of the American Library and the US-India Education foundation (USIEF). The AC hosted the majority of the events on its campus including:creative teaching / learning workshops for teachers and teacher educators; English Language teaching workshops; Higher education in the United States and student visas, and daily screening of Oscar award-winning American films. The programme also featured photo exhibitions, quiz contests, poetry and speech competitions for school and university students, US Consul General Andrew T.Simkin told newsmen here today. To begin America Days, Simkin presented "Journeys Toward Freedom," a photo exhibit about Mahatma Gandhi and Rev.Martin Luther King Jr at the Gandhi Memorial Museum tomorrow. Mahalingam, Chairman of the museum, received the exhibit in the presence of District Collector C.Kamaraj. The U.S. Consul General formally inaugurated America Days in the evening at the American College Auditorium. Dr.T Chinnaraj Joseph Jaikumar, Principal of the college, presided over the function.