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Diversity Festival Offers a Taste (and Sights and Sounds) of Our World
Jan. 31, 2006

LEXINGTON, Ky. − New events and returning favorites highlight this year’s Cultural Diversity Festival, Feb. 13-28, one of the year’s most popular events among faculty, staff and students at the University of Kentucky.

The Cultural Diversity Festival is known for its international foods, colorful entertainment, films, exhibits, concerts, plays, recitals, an international talent night, and stimulating cross-cultural lectures, forums and workshops. Visit the expanded schedule of events online for a complete list of all 36 activities associated with the campuswide, two-week celebration of diversity.

The Cultural Diversity Festival Kickoff will be held at two locations and times – at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 13 at Worsham Theater in the Student Center and at 3 p.m. Feb. 13 in 201 College of Nursing. In addition to free snacks with a Mexican theme and information about other festival activities, this year’s kickoff event features a performance of vignettes focusing on cultural diversity by Sane and Sober Theater Communications, a theater-based training company that combines facts and information with comedic and dramatic vignettes to motivate audiences toward solutions. The event is free and open to the public.

The wildly popular Taste of Our World features an expanded menu of 23 foods and drinks from around the world, including Caramel Rum Bananas from Australia, Madagascar Chicken from Africa, Apfaelstreudel from Austria, Edamame from Japan, and Hot Browns from Central Kentucky. The affordable smorgasbord of epicurean delights – with international entertainment and exhibits – is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 15 in the Student Center Grand Ballroom. The foods will be prepared and presented by UK Catering Services. Tickets are 50 cents each; each ticket purchases an individual sample of a dish. The Plus Account will be accepted, and the first 300 students to attend will receive a free T-shirt.

Diversity Through Our Eyes, a unique exhibit of photographs taken by UK students, faculty and staff, will travel to different locations around campus after its opening Feb. 15 at Taste of Our World. For more information, contact Karen Slaymaker at 257-4067.

Abigail Stewart of the University of Michigan will discuss Faculty Diversity Recruitment at 9 a.m. Feb. 17 in the Center Theater of the Student Center. Then on Feb. 28, Bob Bontrager, assistant provost for enrollment management at Oregon State University, will speak about issues related to recruiting a diverse student body.

International Talent Night is slated at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 in Memorial Hall, and UK Students on Rupp, a discussion scheduled at noon Feb. 16 in UK’s Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center, will be moderated by the center’s director Ricardo Nazario-Colon.

http://news.uky.edu/news/display_art...y=64&artid=960
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