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15th
ASIAN
FESTIVAL 2009
(Click
poster to view enlarged version)
LOCATION: Heritage Park
(115 N. Sixth St., Phoenix, AZ 85004)
DATES:
Saturday, April 18th - Sunday, April
19th
TIME:
Saturday: 10:00a.m.
- 7:00p.m, Sunday: 10:00a.m.- 6:00p.m.
ADMISSION IS FREE
East meets West at the
Annual Arizona Asian Festival. This free festival features ethnic
cuisine, arts and crafts, and such
diverse entertainment as martial arts
demonstrations, cultural dances and music from nearly a dozen
Asian countries. Highlights also include Japanese
Taiko drums and a fashion show with traditional Asian costumes.
The Arizona Asian Festival also presents a Children's Wonderland, filled
with arts and craft activities from
Asian , such as origami paper doll from Japan, Kirigami paper cutting
from Taiwan, wood doll from Indonesian, Philpino craft for kids.
The
Avenue
of Cultures provides opportunity to visit booths of different
cultures for discussion and seeing different art and culture
items. Youth will be presented awards for the Essay Writing and
Poster Design Contest. There will be artist demonstrations in Mehendi, a
form of ancient Indian body art painting, Chinese
calligraphy . Participants also have the opportunity to learn the
ancient arts of taekwando and tai chi
from local masters.
Attendees
can taste a variety of Asian ethnic foods from countries like Taiwan, Cambodia,
Vietnam, Thailand,
Korea, China, India, Pakistan etc. as well as purchase cultural
items from various Asian booths.
Sponsors:
Partial funding provided by
the Phoenix Arts Commission through appropriations
from the Phoenix City Council;
the Arizona Commission on the Arts through
appropriations from the Arizona State
Legislature and grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
  
 
Festival
Committees:
To
view the list of festival committee chairs and members Click
Here
For more information, call Ruey Wu 480.460.8389 or email yuown@yahoo.com
If you
would like to volunteer in organization of the festival, please send an
email to: kazmiarif@yahoo.com
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