Getting Ready: CulturalFest Performance Committee
CulturalFest Performance Showcase is less than a week away! Our Performance Committee has been hard at work with our performers and the showcase. Here's Joey Liao, reflecting on her experience as a part of this awesome group of students!
By Joey Liao
***CulturalFest 2016 kicked off this past week with the International Expo and it will come to its flourish end with the Performance Showcase on Saturday, February 20th at Meany Hall. Doors will open at 5 PM with pre-show entertainment and interactive cultural booths, and the performances will begin at 7 PM. Tickets are on sale NOW in the FIUTS office (HUB 206) or online.***
CulturalFest has been a major part of FIUTS’s annual tradition for many decades. Every year the community comes together and puts on an international booth expo that offers us a glimpse into the different regions around the globe and a night of performances that celebrate the rich and vibrant diversity folks from all walks of life bring to the UW community. With the help from our very own volunteers (facilitators), students and staff, the countdown for CulturalFest 2016 is officially going underway and starting off right. The following post will give you a brief look of the work done by the folks from the Performance Committee behind the scenes.
The Performance Committee is responsible for all logistics behind the audition and performance process, including recruiting and coordinating performers, deciding the line-up, accommodating and communicating across different performance teams, etc. The committee does all this to make sure that the performances selected are authentic reflections and accounts of the cultures that are being represented, and also to create space for underrepresented cultures/regions/countries to celebrate their truth and talent.
Performance Committee doing a walk through at Meany Hall
The folks on the Performance Committee have worked hard from all levels and made conscious efforts to bring in a vast array of cultures and traditions. Under the leadership of Peirce Kirkham, Nhung Le and Amy Bergstrom, the team takes on great initiatives and determination, quick and efficient in communication, transforming all the great ideas into real tangible work, representing a room full of diverse folks who are fierce advocators of truth, community, open-mindedness and appreciation for difference. Through everyone’s hard work and commitment, the CulturalFest Performance Showcase will be a night filled with smiles, excitement, reflection, learning and unlearning…
Other committees are working just as hard as the folks on the Performance Committee. The Performance Showcase is in less than one weeks! Please spread the word and join FIUTS in the biggest celebration of diversity on the UW campus!