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INTERNATIONAL WEEK AND INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL
International Week events were held at the I-Center from
April 30 through May 10 and the International Festival
took place on Saturday May 10. International Week/
International Festival are annual programs sponsored by
Bechtel International Center. Each year many international
student organizations at Stanford participate in
these two programs, which are free and open to the
entire Stanford community and to the public.
International Week events included the following:
• Risking Peace in the Midst of War – a
presentation by the Colombian Student Assoc
• Terror’s Children – a documentary film by
Stanford student Shameen Obaid
• Turkish Dance class - sponsored by the Turkish
Student Assoc
• An Evening of Traditional Egyptian Cooking –
sponsored by the Egyptian Student Assoc
• Israeli Film “Khar Hahalomot” - sponsored by
the Israeli Student Assoc
The International Festival on May 10 ran from noon until
6 pm with performances presented by 14 different
groups. This year’s performance schedule consisted
entirely of international music and dance performances. .
A complete list of performances is as follows:
• Karaoke by the Hong Kong Student Assoc
• Indian folkdances performed by children from
the Nupur Dance Academy
• Peruvian dance group sponsored by Peruanos
en Stanford
• African music by Saaku Sarr and band
• Indian dances performed by members of the
Stanford India Assoc
• Korean dance and drumming by Stanford
Hwimori
• Mexican dances by Ballet Folklorico deStanford
• Turkish folkloric dances by the Turkish Student
Assoc
• Mariachi music by Mariachi Cardenal de
Stanford
• Persian traditional dance group sponsored by
Persian Student Assoc
• Greek folk dances by the Hellenic Assoc of
Stanford
• Afro-Peruvian Dances dances by Grupo
Folklorico los Decanos de Stanford
• Brazilian samba and capoeira by Stanford Roda
de Capoeira & Samba with Mestre Beicola
Local vendors including the Stanford Treehouse sold
international food at the Festival . A new feature at this
year’s I-Fest was the “International Dessert Café” in which
a variety of international desserts were prepared and
sold by the I-Center’s International Spouse Group.
Cultural displays and crafts form another component of
the I-Fest. At each year’s I-Fest several international
student organizations set up cultural displays and sell
crafts from their countries. This year the displays were
presented by the Egyptian Student Assoc, the German
Student Assoc, the International Undergraduate Community,
the Malaysian Student Assoc, the Peruvian Student
Assoc, the Persian Student Assoc, the Stanford Indian
Student Assoc, the Thai-American Intercultural Society,
the Ukrainian Student Assoc, and the Turkish Student
Assoc.
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