MURFREESBORO — MTSU
and its Confucius Institute will be among the sponsors of a glorious
celebration of Murfreesboro’s growing ethnic and cultural diversity.
The ’Boro International Festival will start at 10 a.m.
Saturday, Sept. 10, at Cannonsburgh Village, 312 S. Front St. in Murfreesboro.
The event is free and open to the public.
A children’s parade of flags, followed by a community
sing-along of “We Are the World,” will kick off the festivities. Groups from
China, Thailand, Laos, India, Iran, Panama, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Mexico,
Norway, Peru, Ecuador, Italy and South Sudan will be represented.
Craft merchants and food vendors will provide varied,
multicultural items for sale. Booths displaying interactive exhibits and
historical items will illustrate aspects of the cultures represented at the
festival.
Fashions native to the nations represented will be on
display at an international fashion show. A children’s game area will be
available where youngsters can play international games and create crafts
representative of other countries.
MTSU’s Center for Chinese Music and Culture will provide
music from a quartet of Chinese musicians playing traditional instruments
including a hammer dulcimer, a two-stringed fiddle, bamboo flutes and a zheng, a
plucked instrument with 18 to 23 or more strings and multiple bridges.
“This will be the first performance of me with three Chinese
musicians/teachers/professors who come to work at the center for a year,” said
Mei Han, center director and music professor.
The ’Boro International Festival is sponsored by
Reeves-Rogers Elementary School and Murfreesboro City Schools in partnership
with MTSU, the Confucius Institute and Murfreesboro City Schools.
“We are looking forward to the ’Boro International
Festival,” said Mike Novak, assistant director of the Confucius Institute at
MTSU. “The Confucius Institute has worked with the local school systems in many
ways to celebrate culture, and this should be one of the biggest public
celebrations yet.”
A resource center for Chinese language, history and culture,
the Confucius Institute at MTSU seeks to facilitate engagement with China and
create opportunities for exchange and collaboration between communities in
Tennessee and China.
For more information, contact Tena Bailey at tena.bailey@cityschools.net.
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