People are telling us they loved the 2012 festival! How can we make next year even better?
Come to our Post Festival Evaluation Meeting Sat. April 14th from 2 to 4 PM at the County Library on Hagen Ranch Rd in Delray Beach. (Directions below) Enjoy stories about performances, booths and connections made at the festival. (Post a story about people who are different in some way connecting even if you can't make the meeting)
DIRECTIONS TO LIBRARY MEETING:
From I-95 get off at Atlantic Ave in Delray Beach
Go West past Military Trail, past Jog Rd, to Hagen Ranch Rd.
Right onto Hagen Ranch Rd
Right at the 1st Traffic Light into the library complex
Park anywhere and enter the library
We will be in the small conference room to your right

Our All People’s Day Diversity Festival will take place next Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm at Pompey Park (indoors) at 1101 NW 2nd Street and NW 10th Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444. This free to the public event boasts a wide variety of activities for the whole family.

The Main Events start at 11 am with dazzling performances of dance, music, social theatre, and poetry spanning the globe commencing on the stage in 15 minute intervals. These beautifully costumed artists include, Rising Phoenix (Middle –Eastern dance), the Delray Divas (African-American foot stomp), Fushu Daiko (Japanese Taiko drumming), SD Spady Diversity Skit, Harling Irish Dance Academy, Puppet Network (enormous size puppet performance), Temple Sinai Choir, Haitian American Solidarity (dance) as well as numerous others, treating the attendees to a vast array of cultural experiences. Prizes donated by local businesses and merchandise booths are to be raffled off. Optional: bring canned food for the Caring Kitchen.

Over 40 interactive and merchandise booths will feature a diverse mix to see and do. One will find arts projects such as Origami Peace Crane folding and family mural painting, issue based activities such as health awareness coordinated by 100 Black Women of the South Palm Beach County Chapter, clever word games by non profits, as well as for sale items such as artwork, jewelry, and mouthwatering international cuisine.

Prior to all this, a free workshop from 9:30 to 11:00 am will teach children to make the Craft Dough People. Plain white craft dough will be divided into five parts. Food colors representing the brown, beige, red, gold, or mixed skin tones will be added to each part. From these the kids will make five small faces on the same surface. In addition to being great fun, this is a visual and easily understood illustration that all people are made from the same materials and should therefore be treated with equal respect. Pre-registration for the workshop is open to the first 30 people who sign-up by calling (561) 495-9818.