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Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival


Evanston’s lakefront will be transformed into a Global Village this
weekend for the 28th annual Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival, a two-day
celebration of global diversity. This free event features visual art
from more than 100 countries, family crafts activities, international
cuisine, and live music, dance, and spoken word performances. Attendees
experience the colors, sounds, and aromas of world cultures -- they can
learn a folk-dance from a faraway country, and experience the intriguing
spices and seasonings of new ethnic foods.



The festivities kick off at noon Saturday with the Parade of Nations, a
flag ceremony led by longtime WLS-TV personality and festival MC Bill
Campbell. Community members place the flags of more than 200 countries
around the lagoon at Dawes Park, honoring the diversity of our planet.



This family-friendly event features a wide range of crafts activities
throughout the weekend, including origami and suminagashi workshops,
face-painting, mehndi body decoration of India, mask-making,
maraca-making, Mexican wrestling figures, and much, much more.

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Attendees will enjoy continuous performances throughout the weekend by
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International (Central and West African
dance music), Isle of Klezbos (all-female klemzer band from NYC), Matuto
(Afro-Brazilian bluegrass), Kuumba Lynx (featuring 2013 Louder Than a
Bomb slam team champs), Las BomPleneras (all-female Puerto Rican bomba
and plena), Mexican Folkloric Dance Company, Bollywood Groove, Bilingual
Wiggleworms, and many others.



The Ethnic Arts Festival is sponsored by the City of Evanston Cultural Arts Division and partially supported by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

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For more information, call 847-448-8260.


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