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    The Portage County Cultural Festival is a free annual event that celebrates the diverse cultures represented in Portage County through ethnic food, arts, music, and cultural demonstrations. In its 21st year, the festival will be held on May 11th from 10am to 5pm at Stevens Point Area Senior High. It features over 30 demonstrations of cultural crafts like beading, sewing, and woodcarving. The event aims to promote cultural understanding and had over 13,000 attendees last year. In addition to the ethnic arts, the festival also includes various musical and dance performances representing many cultures on multiple stages throughout the day.

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    The Portage County Cultural Festival is a free annual event that celebrates the diverse cultures represented in Portage County through ethnic food, arts, music, and cultural demonstrations. In its 21st year, the festival will be held on May 11th from 10am to 5pm at Stevens Point Area Senior High. It features over 30 demonstrations of cultural crafts like beading, sewing, and woodcarving. The event aims to promote cultural understanding and had over 13,000 attendees last year. In addition to the ethnic arts, the festival also includes various musical and dance performances representing many cultures on multiple stages throughout the day.

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    The Portage County Cultural Festival is a free annual event that celebrates the diverse cultures represented in Portage County through ethnic food, arts, music, and cultural demonstrations. In its 21st year, the festival will be held on May 11th from 10am to 5pm at Stevens Point Area Senior High. It features over 30 demonstrations of cultural crafts like beading, sewing, and woodcarving. The event aims to promote cultural understanding and had over 13,000 attendees last year. In addition to the ethnic arts, the festival also includes various musical and dance performances representing many cultures on multiple stages throughout the day.

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    The Portage County Cultural Festival is a free annual event that celebrates the diverse cultures represented in Portage County through ethnic food, arts, music, and cultural demonstrations. In its 21st year, the festival will be held on May 11th from 10am to 5pm at Stevens Point Area Senior High. It features over 30 demonstrations of cultural crafts like beading, sewing, and woodcarving. The event aims to promote cultural understanding and had over 13,000 attendees last year. In addition to the ethnic arts, the festival also includes various musical and dance performances representing many cultures on multiple stages throughout the day.

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    Portage County Cultural Festival

    While growing up on the Bad River Reservation, Robin Dickersons mother taught her about their culture, sharing with Robin the art of beading and sewing in the tradition of her Ojibwa heritage. Robin has been practicing her craft since she was 10 years old, and will be demonstrating sewing and beading at the Portage County Cultural Festival as one of more than 30 different demonstrations taking place in the Ethnic Arts Area. In its 21st year, this festival celebrates the diverse cultures of Portage County by sharing food, music, ethnic arts and cultural traditions. More than 35 cultures are represented at the event being held May 11th from 10am to 5pm at Stevens Point Area Senior High, 1201 N. Point Drive. The goal of the event is to promote cultural understanding, while having fun, started in 1992 as an effort to build tolerance through understanding of the diverse ethnic backgrounds of the population of Portage County. More than 13,000 people attended the festival last year. The variety of activities and events is impressive, thanks to the dedicated volunteers who work year round to plan the day. The event is free to the public, funded by the community and a long list of sponsors.

    ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT // CULTURAL FESTIVAL

    New Languages
    Want to learn a little bit of a new language? Every half hour between 11am and 4pm, a new mini language classes will begin. If you stayed for all, you could learn useful phrases from eleven languages! 11:00-11:30 Japanese 11:30-12:00 German 12:00-12:30 Russian 12:30-1:00 Polish 1:00-1:30 Burmese 1:30-2:00 French 2:00-2:30 Thai 2:30-3:00 Chinese 3:00-3:30 Spanish 3:30-4:00 4:00-4:30

    Arabic Korean

    If your idea of fun is something requiring less linguistic skills, the music assortment is a trip around the world! There are four stages of professional and semi-professional entertainment acts performing throughout the day. Slovakian dance group Tetra-Slovak, African dance group Limanya, Irish Performers, The McDance Company, polka music by Norm Dombrowskis Happy Notes and Music of the Middle East by Salaam is just a hint of the breadth of cultural sounds and moves showcased during the day.

    4 |Point.scenenewspaper.com|May 2013

    ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT // CULTURAL FESTIVAL

    Ethnic Arts Demonstrations


    AFRICA
    Mary Jdid, Nathan Straseseke, Kerry Makiloula & Ramneek Sidhu-Henna Painting

    AUSTRALIA EUROPE

    Frances Martin - Aboriginal Point Painting Barbara Godlewski - Pysanki Bernie Jendrzejczak - Polish Paper Cutting Linda Kasten - Norwegian Rosemaling Sophie Kobisiak & Diane Swiggum - German Chip Carving Marjorie Krogwold - Norwegian Loom Weaving Bethann Laars - English Tatting Mary Litzer - German Putz Houses Linda Schiesser - Swiss Paper Cutting Kim Swedowski - Polish Paper Crafts Luke Traver - Dutch Wooden Shoes Karen Trezbiatowski - Norwegian Hardanger Embroidery & Knitting Jerry Trezbiatowski - Norwegian Folk Wood Carving Sidonka Wadina & Stefanie Lee - Slovakian Straw Weaving Bill & Brianna Zimdars - German Waxed Stars

    NORTH AMERICA

    SOUTH AMERICA

    Lynn Anderson - Quilting Robin Dickerson - Native American Beading Leanne Harvath - Rug Weaving Christine Okerlund - Porcupine Quill Birch Bark Baskets David Rand - Slab Pottery Christian Roth - Black Ash Baskets Sande Roth - Quill Baskets Diane Sauter - American Bobbin Lace Patricia White - Creative Basketry Klaus Zunker - Native American Wood Carving

    Paloma Chevez - Day of the Dead Sugar Skulls Javier & Ariana Sotelo - Pinatas Trinity Lutheran Youth - Mexican Paper Flowers Rosa Zamora - Papel Picado/Paper Cutting

    ASIA

    Jaime Nelso -Japanese Kanzashi Flowers Kazuko Rand - Ikebana Japanese Floral Yeng Cheng Yang - Hmong Baskets Judy Yeh - Oriental Knot Tieing

    Point.scenenewspaper.com|May 2013 |

    Cultural Festival Schedule


    Auditorium
    10:00-10:30
    Opening Performance by Rosholt Elementary School Music Students; Community Welcome by Portage County Executive Patti Drier

    North Tent
    10:00-10:30
    Pommersche Danz Gruppe

    2:00-2:30

    1:00-1:45

    Dancers of Shaharazad

    Salaam - Music of the Middle East

    1:45-2:30

    10:30-11:15
    Mito De Soto

    2:30-3:00

    Royal Scottish Country Dance Society

    The McDance Company - Irish Performers

    2:30-3:00

    11:15-12:00 12:00-2:00

    3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00 4:00-5:00

    10:30-11:15 11:15-12:00

    Limanya African Dance

    Salaam - Music of the Middle East Norm Dombrowskis Happy Notes Community Polka Dance

    Bhangra Club Dances of India Tatra Slovak Dancers Shuvani Tribal Bellydance

    Tonantzin Dance Company The McDance Company - Irish Performers

    3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00 4:00-4:30

    Shuvani Bellydance Troupe Dnipro Ukrainian Dancers Limanya African Dance

    12:00-12:30 12:30-1:00

    Dnipro Ukrainian Dancers Syrena Polish Dancers

    North Commons
    10:30-11:15 11:15-11:45 11:45-12:00
    Taiwan Puppet Troupe Pommerscher Danz Gruppe

    12:30-1:00 1:00-1:45

    GoonGoo Peas Lil Rev ~ Jewish and Yiddish Folk Songs

    4:30-5:00

    Bhangra Club Dances of India

    1:45-2:30

    Taiwan Puppet Troupe

    Field House Stage


    10:00-11:00
    Native American Music and Dance

    1:15-2:00

    Mito de Soto

    Miss Czech Slovak State Queen

    2:30-3:15

    2:00-2:30

    12:00-12:30

    Celia Farran - Celtic Storyteller

    11:00-11:30

    Drowsy Maggies -Traditional Irish Music

    Royal Scottish Country Dance Society

    3:15-3:45

    Hmong Dance Troupe

    Drowsy Maggies - Traditional Irish Music

    2:30-3:00

    11:30-12:00
    GoonGoo Peas Ronald Silva

    Tom McComb Quartet

    3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00 4:00-5:00

    12:00-12:45 12:45-1:15

    Syrena Polish Dancers UWSP Percussion Ensemble Dekorra - Americana

    Tatra Slovak Dancers

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    5370 Hwy 10 East Stevens Point, WI 54482 715.344.8484 Mon.-Fri. 10am-6pm Saturday 9am-6pm Sunday 10am-4pm

    6 |Point.scenenewspaper.com|May 2013

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