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Museum of Indian Culture Celebrates Diversity at Artifest
Two-day festival at Museum of Indian Culture will feature more than 75 exhibitors and offer food, music and dance from different cultures.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world," famed author J.R.R. Tolkien once stated.
For those who already value these things, along with culture and history, the Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown will soon host an event that should be of interest.
The museum, which is located in the scenic Lehigh Parkway on the Salisbury Township border, will celebrate cultural diversity through art, music, food and dance during its annual Artifest June 11 and 12. The festivities will include more than 75 exhibitors and vendors, as well as more than 40 performances over the course of two days.
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Artifest is a family friendly event complete with a children’s activity area and features unique educational demonstrations, such as making German sauerkraut, the Ukrainian folk art of Pysanky (elaborate egg decoration) and learning how Native Americans made dugout canoes. Additionally, the festival will feature an arts and crafts area where families can make everything from Mexican piñatas to Chinese lanterns, and kids can add their own additions to a Kaleidoscope Mural.
New this year, Artifest will host a Renaissance village, complete with re-enactors, merchants and fire-breathers. The festival will also feature mini villages hosted by representatives from the Pennsylvania German Heritage Center in Kutztown, the Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center at Manor College, the internationally known Kazka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and the award-winning members of the Philadelphia Mummers' Quaker City String Band.
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Many different types of ethnic foods will be available, including American Indian, Asian Indian, Colombian, Caribbean and Southern comfort foods.
Live music and dance performances will be held on the main stage daily from 10am to 6pm.
If You Go:
When: June 11-12
Where: Lehigh Parkway at the Museum of Indian Culture, 2825 Fish Hatchery Road, Allentown, PA 18103.
Admission: Adults $5, Children (12-17) and Seniors $4, Kids 11 and under are free. Parking is also free.
For more information, visit www.artifest.org or call (610) 797-2121.