Entertainment, Crafts, Information Displays All Available At VGCC Cultural Fair Feb. 26
Entertainment as varied as young children singers, African-American and country line dancing, historical spirituals and classical guitar. Vendors of goods ranging from paintings to clay creations to Lebanese artifacts to decorative eggs. International displays from a dozen lands, including China and The Philippines.
You can find these and much, much more in the Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center Feb. 26 when the college presents its annual Cultural Fair. Students and the general public are invited to attend the free event, which will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Vance-Granville Day Care students will open the entertainment with Hawaiian songs, followed by Juan Gomez and Friends doing Spanish numbers. The VGCC Singers will perform historical spirituals from the Underground Railroad days, Anna Jennings will demonstrate country line dancing, and Philip Brantley will play classical guitar. VGCC Student Support Services students will sing and dance, the Whole Village Drum & Dance Ensemble will perform African dances, and Stacy Escoto will sing Gospel numbers. Bob Raven and Mary Morningstar will tell Native American stories in a room adjacent to the Civic Center.
There will be on display goods and artifacts from Afghanistan, China, Costa Rica, Ireland, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Turkey, Peru, The Philippines, Trinidad & Tobago, and Ukraine.
Numerous vendors will be on hand to display and sell their international and varied cultural wares. These will include clay creations, ceramics and candles, paintings, silver jewelry, African-American books and African art. A VGCC student from the Ukraine will demonstrate the art of decorative eggs, such as the famed Faberge eggs.
Foods from around the world will also be available for tasting at the Cultural Fair.
The Cultural Enhancement Committee of Vance-Granville Community College faculty and staff plans and stages the annual Cultural Fair, and they promise a wealth of information and entertainment that will help attendees better appreciate the cultures of the world in which we live.
In the first photo, members of the Whole Village Drum & Dance Ensemble will perform native African dances during Cultural Fair 2004 on Feb. 26 in the VGCC Civic Center.
In the second photo, Lyubov Karcha, a native of the Ukraine and a VGCC student, will display products and other items from her homeland at VGCC’s Cultural Fair on Feb. 26.
