{"id":493,"date":"2010-09-27T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T18:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuulstuff.com\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2010-12-06T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:50:19","slug":"unity-fest-international-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/unity-fest-international-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity Fest International &#8211; 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friend told that she was contributing to the dance festival. So, I went to the Unity Fest International at the Putnam IMAX. I was thrilled to see the perfromances along with some free goodies and a chance to see Davenport Mayor, Mr. Bill Gluba!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unity Fest International<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unity Fest International is a partnership between <a title=\"QC United\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qcunited.org\/unityfest.htm\" target=\"_blank\">QC United<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Putnam Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.putnam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Putnam Museum<\/a>. It\u00a0 is a cultural festival that celebrates diverse cultures and people residing in the quad cities. This year, the event was held in the Putnam IMAX, Davenport. The performances included dances by Indians, African Americans, Phillipines, Scottish, Latin Americans, Vietnamese, Hispanics, and other international and local singers. It was amazing to see the performances that reflect international cultures and dances.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1297284887870121\";\n\/* Quad cities, created 12\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2237342471\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The entry was free but the organizers encouraged to bring food packets to donate to the local churches. <a title=\"Mayor of Davenport\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofdavenportiowa.com\/department\/?fDD=5-0\" target=\"_blank\">Davenport Mayor, Mr. Bill Gluba <\/a>spoke at\u00a0the\u00a0festival. He said that,\u00a0America is of diverse origin and it appreciates the diversity and unity among the international workforce residing in the Quad Cities. He added that it is intersting to find that the local schools enrolled students in about 57 dialects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Putnam Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Putnam museum contributed for this great event which included many arts and crafts for children. The children got to understand which craft originated in which country and were assissted by the volunteers to make the crafts on their own. Some of the arts\u00a0and crafts included were face painting, rangoli, bead threading, paper flowers, mask painting, rock painting, and others. The children also could visit some of the local animals such as rabbits, goose, turtle, turkey and dogs. Cockroach races entertained the children as well as the adults.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the event, visitors got free entrance to some of the exhibits in the museum. Organizers say that the event is to celebrate the differences in the community and to appreciate and learn from each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friend told that she was contributing to the dance festival. So, I went to the Unity Fest International at the Putnam IMAX. I was thrilled to see the perfromances along with some free goodies and a chance to see Davenport Mayor, Mr. Bill Gluba!!<a href=\"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/unity-fest-international-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unity Fest International &#8211; 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[360,361,362,363,78,359],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","tag-davenport-mayor","tag-mr-bill-gluba","tag-putnam-museum","tag-qc-united","tag-quad-cities","tag-unity-fest-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AvRz-7X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1464,"url":"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/quad-cities-summer-events-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":0},"title":"Quad Cities Summer Events 2016","author":"admin","date":"June 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Summer of 2016 brings record high temperatures to Quad cities along with annual events. 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