By Ann Nicholson
February 23, 2001
From traditional foods to lively entertainment, more than 75 international students at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will offer a taste of their homelands at the seventh annual International Festival 5:30-11 p.m. March 2 in Brown Hall.
"We invite everyone to join us as we present and celebrate our home countries," said master of social work student Tarek Zidan, a native of Egypt who heads the event's organizing committee. "We will be cooking native foods from more than 20 countries, presenting traditional entertainment and fashions from about a dozen countries, and showcasing each country in a PowerPoint presentation."
The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin with an international banquet from 5:30-7 p.m. in Brown Lounge. Sally Bartholomew, assistant accountant in the social work school's business office and of Polish ancestry, will perform a piece from Chopin on the piano.
Available for sampling will be dishes from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Nepal, India, Egypt, Hong Kong, Yugoslavia, Romania, Thailand, Ghana, Botswana, Azerbaijan, Israel, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Mexico and Argentina, as well as traditional American Indian food.
The entertainment will begin at 7 p.m. in Brown Hall Room 100 with the PowerPoint presentations, a video on building the Egyptian pyramids and traditional singing, dancing and fashion presentations. Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Nepal, India, Egypt, Latin America, Ghana, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Mongolia, China and the United States, including a juggler and an American Indian dancer, will all be represented. A professional dancer will accompany the group from Ghana and a professional belly dancer will join the Egyptian group.
Guest speakers at the event will be Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D., school of social work dean; David L. Cronin, Ph.D., associate dean for administration; and Richard J. "Dick" Parvis, professor emeritus and former coordinator of overseas admissions.
For more information, call Zidan at 721-1826.
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