At the Business Expo 2013

The Expo on April 25 was a sucess - lots of people stopped by. Here is a picture of our booth:

 

 

And here is the booth of the Faribault Diversity Coalition:

 

 



International Festival at Faribault Business Expo April 25 2013

Come check us out at the Faribault Business Expo April 25 2013 - 2pm-7pm. We will have lots of information regarding the festival, including posters, flyers and sign-up sheets.

We will have a booth together with the revived Faribault Diversity Coalition (the original roots of the festival).

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Here are two nice write-ups from Audrey Helbling about the 2012 event:

http://mnprairieroots.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/yearning-for-respect-equality-no-matter-what-color-you-are/

http://mnprairieroots.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/connecting-conversing-and-celebrating-cultural-diversity-at-faribault-festival/

2012 Festival was a success! Lots of community participation (donors and sponsors), food booths, performers and attendees.

Here is the first set of pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/102489320677806139703/FestivalAugust252012 

The International Festival committee is still looking for a few core members as well as sub-committee volunteers to assist in the planning for the August 25^th event in Central Park.

Core members will be meeting once a month, and form "sub-groups" with additional volunteers who will work on the planning for logistics, fundraising, music and performers, arts and food boots, press-releases and marketing, and so on.

Please email InternationalFestivalFaribault@gmail.com for more information.

New look-and-feel, 2011 pictures

As you can see, this website has been updated with a new look-and feel. Several new pages have been added--please click on the tabs on top of the page (Home, Blog, How can you participate, Contact Us, View Brochure, and About Us).

We also have added a link to the pictures of the 2011 festival: https://picasaweb.google.com/102489320677806139703/FestivalSeptember102011?feat=email

Letter to the Editor of the Faribault Daily News

Here is a link to a letter to the Editor of the Faribault Daily News by one of the festival's committee members, Bruce Schreckenberg: http://faribault.com/content/thanks-successful-festival

Main Street Fall Festival and Chili Cook-off

The International Festival Faribault was present on the Main Street Fall Festival, with a tent, a new banner, and some great chili.

Pictured here are two committee members: Virginia van Sluis and Bruce Schreckenberg.

It was a success!

Well, considering we only had six weeks to plan and organize, the festival this weekend was a success! Here is a good write-up: http://mnprairieroots.wordpress.com/tag/international-festival/

We're Ready!

Well, it's been a busy few weeks but we are ready for the festival!

We have raised over $1900 in donations (silent auction items, food, drinks, bouncy castle, music, etc.).

Barb Piper will perform 10am-11am.
Bruce Schreckenberg and Mark will perform after that.
Then some Hispanic music.
Doc Hildebrandt will perform with the Long Gone Band 2:30pm-4pm.
In between the live music we will have several presentation of people representing their countries.

Silent auction will close around 2:30pm.

There will be over 30 tables: ethnic foods, drinks, ethnic items, service organizations.

For the kids we have many activities:
• Jumping Castle
• Face Painters
• Sack Races
• Ladder Balls
• Ski Races
• Bocce ball
• 3 Piñatas

Hope to see you there!

Update on festival

The week of August 16th we are really pulling this festival together. We have quite a bit of confirmations for participation, from different ethnics groups in town, arts & crafts, non-profits, restaurants and music groups. During the week we are re-visiting the people we spoke to, and will approach many more with our "table request form", as well as the "donation/sponsor request form", will allow companies to either donate an item (dinner for two, gift certificate, etc.) for the silent auction) or a monetary donation.
As we are getting very close to the festival date, we are running out of time to get state of federal grants, but once we show we have local participation and sponsors, we will be able to apply for grants for next year's festival.


We are planning to put out a flyer early week of August 23rd to invite the community to attend the festival. By that time we can put specifics on the flyer, and distribute it across town.