
Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal Happy Holidays from Festal to all of the culture carriers and those individuals who enjoy the Festal Cultural festivals thoughout the year. 2010 promises to be a great year!

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal Happy Thanksgiving from Festal to all of you who attend the festivals and to all of you who make Festal such a beautiful thing year after year!

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal What is your favorite Cultural Festival at Seattle Center?

Kevin The Seattle Center House as well as us empolyes will be looking forward to the returne of the Festals in 2010!

Kevin Working the Festals can be crazy but I do get an ejoyment out working them. It's not likemyou get to experence somthing like them ever day in the Center House.

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal Admittedly lo-fi but fun cell-phone-captured video from a dance performance at Hmong New Year 2009.
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silver kiss dancing at seattle hmong new year 2009...excuse the quality it was taken from my phone...

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal Here is a site which has one of the most lucid explanations of Hmong written language I have seen, and which actually has audio files attached so you can hear the pronunciation.
www.wpt.org
The Hmong language is complex and tonal, even though words in Hmong are generally monosyllabic. The Hmong did not have a written language until missionaries in Laos introduced the Romanized Popular Alphabet(RPA) in 1953. ...

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal Page about the background to Hmong immigration to the US, describing the US government's use of Hmong to fight the North Vietnamese in Laos during the Vietnam war.
www.jefflindsay.com

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal Hmong New Year Celebration is happening this Saturday!
Location:Seattle Center
Time:10:00AM Saturday, November 7th

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal 2009 Dates: October 31 - November 1

en.wikipedia.org
The Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day) is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and by Latin Americans living in the United States and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. ...

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal Dia De Muertos is starting Saturday, October 31st! Photos of the tapete in progress coming soon . . .

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal has just 2 more events left in the 2009 Festal season...time to get ready for 2010!!

Seattle Center Presents Safeco Insurance Festal
http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adic hie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html
Make sure you watch this
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TED Talks Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.




















