Celebrating Nationwide Arab American and MENA Heritage Month at Sony Music Group
Apr 30, 2024
Sony Music Group is embracing a singular, unifying theme for each heritage acknowledgement and celebration in 2024: Reimagining CommUNITY. Impressed by the artwork we create, music may help us strengthen our connections to the individuals and cultures round us, so everybody can belong and thrive.
All through the month of April, Sony Music Group proudly celebrated Nationwide Arab American, Center Jap, and North African (MENA) Heritage Month. In efforts to proceed Reimagining CommUNITY inside and outdoors of our firm, we devoted this time to recognizing and celebrating the contributions, achievements, resilience and variety of all individuals of Arab and MENA descent.
Celebrating Tradition By Meals
The MENA area is comprised of over 20 international locations, which have a wealthy tapestry of culinary historical past. Meals, very like music, brings individuals collectively and is reflective of tradition, heritage and historic happenings. That’s why the Workplace of DE&I hosted a celebratory breakfast at our New York Metropolis headquarters, catered by Edy’s Grocer, North Brooklyn’s first Lebanese Market and Deli. Edy’s mission is to make Center Jap elements extra accessible and prevalent in individuals’s day by day kitchens and pantries.
The in-office breakfast included all kinds of pastries for workers to style, from spinach and cheese boreks to mini za’atar croissants, offering a singular expertise of MENA tradition.
Highlighting the Work of the Sony Music Center East Workforce
Particular shoutout to our Sony Music Center East teammates, who can be producing this yr’s Esports World Cup 2024 anthem which is able to happen this summer time in Saudi Arabia. Sony Group Company lately introduced a multi-year partnership with the Esports World Cup Basis to collaborate on varied initiatives forward of this yr’s occasions. Study extra concerning the partnership right here.
Supporting the Arab and MENA Group Past Sony Music Group
Though Nationwide Arab American and MENA Heritage Month has come to an finish, our assist for the Arab and MENA group continues. By our World Social Justice Fund, we proudly assist Canadian non-profit group, Afghan Ladies’s Group (AWO).
Our World Social Justice Fund permits us to assist AWO’s Neighbourhoods for Newcomer seniors program, an initiative that enables seniors to be civically engaged in varied actions inside their cities, from voter training occasions to public engagement kinds. These actions are designed to extend their sense of belonging and group involvement.
