The Rimini Meeting: 30 Years of Dialogue

For the first time in America, a taste of the world's biggest summer event
featuring encounters, exhibitions, music and live performances

Justice Samuel Alito and Ambassador Mary Ann Glendonamong the speakers at the
presentation of the 2009 Meeting

With an average attendance of over 700,000, the Rimini Meeting -- held
annually in Italy since 1980 and lasting one week in August -- is the world's
biggest summer festival of encounters, exhibitions, music and spectacles. For
30 years, the event has sought to create points of contact between experiences
and people of different faiths and cultures.

Among the guests of previous editions are Pope John Paul II, Joseph Cardinal
Ratzinger, Mother Theresa of Calcutta, the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa, Carlo
Rubbia, Chaim Potok, George Smoot, Ennio Morricone, Jose Carreras, Jean
Guitton, Luigi Giussani, Simone Veil, Martha Graham, David Rosen, Francois
Michelin, Samuel Alito, and many other politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists,
philosophers and artists. The Rimini Meeting is organized, prepared, managed
and then dismantled by the impassioned and generous efforts of volunteers, who
number over 3,000 each year.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, the Rimini Meeting will be presented
for the first time in the United States, at the Italian Embassy in Washington,
DC, in collaboration with Crossroads Cultural Center. American guests from
previous meetings will reflect on the significance of the Meeting.

Media interested in covering the event must register at
dc@crossroadsculturalcenter.org Access to the Italian Embassy will be for
registered media only.

Event Details

WHAT: "Knowledge is Always an Event" -- 30 Years of the Rimini Meeting --
Panel discussion

WHEN:Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. EDT

WHERE: Embassy of Italy - 3000 Whitehaven Street, NW -- Washington, DC 20008

WHO:

-- Justice Samuel ALITO, U.S. Supreme Court, and Mrs. Martha-Ann Alito
-- Mary Ann GLENDON, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
and Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
-- Paolo CAROZZA, Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School, and
Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
-- Joseph H.H. WEILER, Jean Monnet Chair, NYU School of Law
-- Jane MILOSCH, Senior Program Officer for Art at Smithsonian
Institution

-- Lorenzo ALBACETE, theologian, author, columnist

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CHECK THE CROSSROADS WEBSITE
WWW.CROSSROADSCULTURALCENTER.ORG.

Media registration: dc@crossroadsculturalcenter.org

CONTACT: Matteo Lessi, Rimini Meeting, +39-340-4051500
matteo.lessi@meetingrimini.org; or Dino D'Agata of Crossroads Cultural Center,
+1-301-984-5894 dc@crossroadsculturalcenter.org

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 27/

SOURCE Crossroads Cultural Center