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Asian American Heritage Festival
June 14, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Westchester County, NY
CONTACT: Gary Guo, Asian Heritage Festival Chair, 914-329-3551, [email protected]
Event: 17th annual Asian American Heritage Festival
Date: Saturday, June 14, 2014
Time: 12 noon to 6 pm
Place: Kensico Dam Plaza, Valhalla, NY
free admission and parking
The public is invited to bring family and friends to Kensico Dam for an afternoon of entertainment featuring experts in traditional Asian dance and song and masters of the martial arts, including lion dancers. Professional artists share the stage with children’s dance troupes in colorful traditional costumes. There will be plenty of activities for children such as face painting, Lego classes, Chinese paper cutting, origami, and games.
One of the most popular of the ethnic cultural celebrations on Westchester County’s summer calendar, the Asian Heritage festival attracts as many as 7,000 residents each year. It is also a favorite showcase for small businesses and non-profits, featuring vendors selling Asian-themed cultural artifacts and handmade goods, agencies offering educational and health services and local chefs cooking up a wide array of Asian foods. The Festival is organized by the OCA-Westchester & Hudson Valley Chapter and supported by the Westchester County Parks and an array of local corporations and small businesses. For more information about OCA-WHV and the festival, please visit [email protected] or www.oca-whv.org
OCA is a national non-profit, non-partisan organization advocating for social justice, equal opportunity, equal rights and equal justice for the 16 million Asian Americans in the U.S.
For more information about OCA-WHV and the festival, please visit [email protected] or www.oca-whv.org