Past Events

Dec 9 2024 town meeting screen shot Keli and Mary.png

S.U.R.E. Diversity Chairperson Keli Khatib

and Secretary Mary DeChillo

attend the Swampscott Town Meeting

on December 9, 2025.

View the presentation here.

Please Note: Keli's presentation begins at time stamp 11:45

and ends at 17:13 on the video.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

BLACK HISTORY is OUR HISTORY

February 2024

A Town-wide Celebration -

Held on February 27, 2024

Here's the recording of our wonderful evening!

Featured the Swampscott String Quartet

Community Groups

and

Local Poet Enzo Surin

COMMUNITY EVENT

August 2018/2019

CommUNITY event Partnering with Town of Swampscott, FLOS, Boy Scouts, and Swampscott Yacht Club

WHITE HELMETS

November 2016

Viewing of the movie White Helmets and community discussion with Raed Al Saleh, head of the White Helmets

SENDING CONTAINERS TO SYRIA

March 2017

Partnering with SPUR, Rotary Club, Marblehead Charter, NuDay Syria, we worked with communities in Swampscott and Marblehead and collected items to ship 2 containers to Syria and Turkey for the Syrian Refugees.

Samba Viva wings Diversity Festival 2018

4TH ANNUAL DIVERSITY FESTIVAL

September 2019

3RD ANNUAL DIVERSITY FESTIVAL

September 2018

2ND ANNUAL DIVERSITY FESTIVAL

August 2017

1ST ANNUAL DIVERSITY FESTIVAL

August 2016

MIRRORS OF PRIVILEGE: MAKING WHITENESS VISIBLE (PART I AND PART II)

Movie and group discussions

Website for film

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSGENDER PERSPECTIVES

nAGLY speaker and local family discussing issues.

Contact nAGLY

INTELLIGENT LIVES, A FILM BY DAN HABIB

Movie regarding intellectual disability bias and discussion groups led by local leaders and the sister of one of the subjects in the film.