 | Visitors to the inaugural International Cultural Festival at Yale will have the opportunity to learn about the food, fashion, dance and music of cultures throughout the world. |
The diversity of the University community will be celebrated on Saturday, April 12, with the inaugural International Cultural Festival at Yale.
The student-run event, expected to be one of the biggest cultural events on campus, will take place noon-5 p.m. at University Commons in Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets, and outdoors in the adjancent Beinecke Plaza. It is free and open to the public.
More than 25 campus student organizations will host informative and entertaining exhibits featuring cultures from all over the world. The festival will also feature dance and musical performances, a variety of ethnic foods, and a fashion show of traditional national dress. Photographs from all over the world will be on display as part of a photography contest sponsored by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).
YCIAS is one of the sponsors of the festival, along with the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate Fund, the McDougal Graduate Student Center and STA Travel.
The goal of the festival is to "raise awareness of the cultural diversity at Yale and provide the Yale and New Haven communities with an opportunity to learn about the cultures and customs of different parts of the world," says Rena Sasaki '04, who hails from Tokyo, Japan.
Sasaki notes that some 3,000 students and scholars at Yale come from over 100 countries, and there are over 70 cultural organizations on campus. In addition, many Yale students travel abroad each year.
"Yale is such a global university, and taking its cultural diversity into account, I think the International Cultural Festival is a very natural event," says Sasaki. She and the other organizers of the event hope to hold an even larger festival next year.
The YCIAS photography contest will feature international students' and scholars' images and stories from home, as well as photos taken by Yale study-abroad students and pictures depicting America's diversity.
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