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Event Description
Spirit of Beacon Day - River Festival
09/25/16 Beacon Festival - “One River, Many Streams Folk Festival”
People loves festival, especially the one you see many interesting food. Come to think of it, however, there is no hotdogs stand or Shish Kebab at the Beacon Festival (not around where we were if any). Because, it is to celebrate Mid-Hudson Valley Folk and Traditional Arts, and in spite of no festival food local people loves it. This year we brought Origami table again. What is good about Origami program is that it’s not just for kids but entire family could join as well. Usually, however, parents would first decline when we suggest them to do together with their kids. But what happens next is very much standard - When they saw kids struggling to follow, parents would try to help kids but many found themselves become obsessed with it and eventually would take over the entire thing while their kids were enviously watching their parents seriously focused on a little Origami paper, completely forgotten about kids. When parents finally accomplished making an Origami, they had a look of true satisfaction while kids looked not so quite. But at least we were making someone happy so we usually let it be the way it turned out. But many other times, kids and parents enjoyed it together as a happy family. When parents finished it after an effort, I wonder if they realized, their faces were lit up with proud as bright as their kids. It was a pure joy in there. That was when we, volunteers, found it as another way to enjoy community festival like One River, Many Streams Folk Festival. It was certainly the very time to find “Spirit of Beacon”, the symbolic title of this special event.
The Beacon Festival is a Arts Mid-Hudson’s Folk Arts Program in which we along with other ethnic groups of Ukrainian, Chinese, Indian, Mexican and many others present our folk arts. We’d like to express our sincere thanks to Elinor Levy, the Folk Arts Program Manager, and Linda Marston-Reid, Executive Director, and Arts Mid-Hudson for continuing this wonderful program.
Midori Shinye
Team Leader
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