Culture Fest returns this year!  Benefiting the Arts & Education Council, this day festival enriches the Chattanooga community through innovative arts events. The purpose of the festival is to bridge cultural differences through the common language of the arts: performing, culinary, literary, and visual. Festivities include hand-on children activities, cooking demos, live musical performance, dance and a multicultural bake sale.  Don’t forget to pick up this year’s Culture Fest cookbook, on sale Sunday. Market stays open till 5pm this Sunday! Culture Fest performance schedule (subject to change) EPB Stage   11:00 – 11:30    Parade of Nations / Opening Ceremony 11:30 – 12:00   India Association of Chattanooga (dances from India: classical, folk and bollywood) 12:00-12:30    Tulsi (Music of India) 12:30 – 1:00    Zanzibar Bellydance Studio 1:15 – 2:00    John Jaramillo - Aztec Dances of Mexico (featuring Calvin Donaldson students) 2:00 – 2:30    Filipino-American Association of Chattanooga (Tinikling Dance / Bamboo Dance)  2:45    Chattanooga Latin Expressions  3:30    Zazzua Dance and Theatre Troupe (theatrical dance/ re-enactment of upper/lower Egypt) 4:15    Mawre & Co. (African Dance and Drum)  Patio Stage 11:30    Chattanooga Tai Ji Community (Tai Chi Demo)  12:00   Chattanooga Pipe Band  (Bagpipe Performance)  12:30    Finn Billie (Danish Storytelling)  1:15    Chattanooga Poi (Maori Arts)  1:45   Lone Mountain Band (Traditional and original bluegrass and old-time music)  2:45   Japanese Tea Ceremony    4:00   Chattanooga Gospel Orchestra    Cooking Demos (with samples!) 11:00 - Aji Restaurant, Peruvian11:45 - Tammera Hicks, Native American12:30 - Michele Kephart, Guamanian1:15 - Conga Restaurant - Salvadorian2:00 - Chris Babb-Cheshul - Polish2:45 - Linda Davis, UTC Aramark, Lithuanian Activities -ArtQuest (Kids Activities) – 11 AM to 3 PM, sponsored by the Creative Discovery Museum -Activities for all ages:  Origami, calligraphy, macramé, face painting, international board games, bocce, henna hand painting, learn dance steps, audience participation in performances, passport game

Culture Fest returns this year!  Benefiting the Arts & Education Council, this day festival enriches the Chattanooga community through innovative arts events. The purpose of the festival is to bridge cultural differences through the common language of the arts: performing, culinary, literary, and visual.

Festivities include hand-on children activities, cooking demos, live musical performance, dance and a multicultural bake sale.  Don’t forget to pick up this year’s Culture Fest cookbook, on sale Sunday.

Market stays open till 5pm this Sunday!

Culture Fest performance schedule (subject to change)

EPB Stage  

11:00 – 11:30    Parade of Nations / Opening Ceremony

11:30 – 12:00   India Association of Chattanooga (dances from India: classical, folk and bollywood)

12:00-12:30    Tulsi (Music of India)

12:30 – 1:00    Zanzibar Bellydance Studio

1:15 – 2:00    John Jaramillo - Aztec Dances of Mexico (featuring Calvin Donaldson students)

2:00 – 2:30    Filipino-American Association of Chattanooga (Tinikling Dance / Bamboo Dance) 

2:45    Chattanooga Latin Expressions 

3:30    Zazzua Dance and Theatre Troupe (theatrical dance/ re-enactment of upper/lower Egypt)

4:15    Mawre & Co. (African Dance and Drum) 

Patio Stage

11:30    Chattanooga Tai Ji Community (Tai Chi Demo) 

12:00   Chattanooga Pipe Band  (Bagpipe Performance) 

12:30    Finn Billie (Danish Storytelling) 

1:15    Chattanooga Poi (Maori Arts) 

1:45   Lone Mountain Band (Traditional and original bluegrass and old-time music) 

2:45   Japanese Tea Ceremony  

 4:00   Chattanooga Gospel Orchestra 

 

Cooking Demos (with samples!)

11:00 - Aji Restaurant, Peruvian
11:45 - Tammera Hicks, Native American
12:30 - Michele Kephart, Guamanian
1:15 - Conga Restaurant - Salvadorian
2:00 - Chris Babb-Cheshul - Polish
2:45 - Linda Davis, UTC Aramark, Lithuanian

Activities

-ArtQuest (Kids Activities) – 11 AM to 3 PM, sponsored by the Creative Discovery Museum

-Activities for all ages:  Origami, calligraphy, macramé, face painting, international board games, bocce, henna hand painting, learn dance steps, audience participation in performances, passport game