Passport to the world - Ethnic Holiday Festival

Passport to the world 07 - Ethnic Holiday Festival
Friday November 30th - Tonight, I attended the Ethnic Holiday Festival at the Durham Western Heritage Museum. I viewed various Ethnic group displays, saw the Flag Ceremony and watched Six of many Ethnic dances performed, either in Lobby or in the new Truhlsen Lecture Hall. See program listing above.

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a Flag Ceremony or Dance Performance Gallery


Ethnic Tables 10 Photos	Flag Ceremony 24 photos	Japanese American Citizen League Dance Troupe (10)	Czech Heritage Dancers (6)	Omaha Lithuanian "Rambynas" (3)

Celtic Storm? 5 Photos	Strathdon Caledonia Pipe Band (4)	Mexican Dancers 10 Photos	Mary Howard Irish Dancers (10)	Dreams of Eagles Native Dancers (10)

Ethnic Tables
About 29+ Ethnic Groups/Organization have display/Items for scale table scatted throughout
the Main Waiting Room and trackside on the lower lever (no photos). Here is a sample.


Various Ireland related displays		Mexican Cultural Arts Center

Sons of Norway	Venebraska	St. John The Baptist Greek Orthodox Church	Tree behind the Flag Ceremony

Flag Ceremony
The presentation of 14 nation / ethnic group flag for this Festival.


Master of Ceremony		Sweden	Scotland	Greece	Slovakia & Czech Republic

Right Side	Norway	Belgium	Poland		Phoenicia

Near Full Set	Denmark	Native American		Japan	Venezuela

Ireland		United States		All the Flags
	see Wikipedia's gallery of sovereign-state flags for information and graphic of each flag photographed here expect for the Phoenicia & Scotland
The audience

Ethnic Dances
All evening, 5-9pm, there were Dances and Entertainment by various ethnic groups in the Lobby and Truhlsen Lecture Hall. See Program at left for schedule.

... in the Lobby or Main Waiting Room

Japanese American Citizen League Dance Troupe			Dance Movies - Umbrellas & Fans,

Czech Heritage Dancers				Sample of Dance Movie

Omaha Lithuanian Choir "Rambynas"

Celtic Storm?			Dance Movies - Rotate & Tap

Strathdon Caledonia Pipe Band
	Between the bag pipe performances, I saw three ethnic dances downstairs in new Truhlsen Lecture Hall
Mid Evening		End of Evening *Finale*