Phoenix Arizona Real Estate PRIDE: Arizona Asian American Association

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Arizona Asian American Association

16th ARIZONA ASIAN FESTIVAL 2010

(click poster or here to see large printable poster)

LOCATION: Heritage Park (115 N. 6th St., Phoenix, AZ 85004)

DATES: Saturday, April 10th - Sunday, April 11th

TIME: 10:00a.m. - 7:00p.m

ADMISSION IS FREE

General Information:

The primary goal with Arizona Asian Festival is to encourage the development and interest of childrens creative skills while bringing the community together in Unity, an effort to promote Diversity and support the work of Arizona Asian American Association.

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.

via aaaa-az.org

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