Archive forJune 20, 2005

Vietnamese Americans set aside cultural differences to protest visit (Kansas City Star)

WESTMINSTER, Calif. - (KRT) - For Cu Tran, a refugee who fled Vietnam to escape communism, the road to freedom does not end on American soil. It is like a turnaround where one leg of the journey stops and another that could someday lead him back to his homeland begins.

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Design leaders will debate future of key Cultural Trust property (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has invited about 75 architects, urban planners and environmental designers to gather here later this month to do what design devotees do best -- dream, draw and debate.

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Newcomer: City is art-friendly, on verge of cultural revival (The Natchez Democrat)

A year-long search taking her from coast to coast led artist Wathen Doggett finally to Natchez. It was love at first sight. She had found her new home. And now, less than a year later, she has no regrets. Quite the contrary. "I am so excited that sometimes I catch my breath," she said.

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Cultural comeback of modern Peking Opera (People’s Daily)

Most urban Chinese 45 years or over can hum at least a few or more bars of arias or melodies of "yang ban xi," the so-called model plays of modern Peking Opera and ballets staged during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76).

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We owe it to our children to get our cultural act together (The Herald)

Let us pray. Let us pray that on Thursday morning when the Cultural Commission puts the fruits of its year-long deliberations into the public domain, those within our artistic community who rush to pronounce judgment remember to engage their brain before slipping their mouth into drive.

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Multi-cultural festival vendor promotes fair trade (The Marietta Times)

PARKERSBURG — Where else in the Mid-Ohio Valley can you eat crawfish tails or baklava while listening to Polish music or getting a massage? Only at the Mid-Ohio Valley Multi-Cultural Festival in the Parkersburg City Park is it possible.

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Party planner creates ‘events’ Social, cultural lines crossed (2theadvocate.com)

For most college students, parties are about having fun with people they know. For one Baton Rouge party planner, the good times are all about building bridges between students on different college campuses.

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Newcomer: City is art-friendly, on verge of cultural revival (The Natchez Democrat)

A year-long search taking her from coast to coast led artist Wathen Doggett finally to Natchez. It was love at first sight. She had found her new home. And now, less than a year later, she has no regrets. Quite the contrary. "I am so excited that sometimes I catch my breath," she said.

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Rates won’t rise to pay for cultural centre: Mayor (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Queanbeyan council says it will not lift rates to fund an estimated $7.75 million cultural centre. The council says the building will have a 350-seat theatre and gallery space, and will be built near the city's function centre.

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Arab-Americans and North Africans to Share Their Cultural Heritage With Fellow New Yorkers at Street Festival in (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

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