Southeast Asia Language
and Literature
Annual Spring Cultural Festival
| INDONESIAN
LANGUAGE STUDIES |
| VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE STUDIES |
| Since spring of 2003, the faculty
and students of the Yale Southeast Asia Language Studies Programs
have organized and hosted an annual "Cultural Festival,"
featuring displays and performances of regional arts, crafts, music
and dance, along with a buffet dinner of Southeast Asian cuisine.
The festival evenings have been open to the University and the public,
and each year have attracted large and enthusiastic crowds of Yale
students, faculty, and community participants from New Haven and
throughout Connecticut. Festivals have featured guest performers such as the Nguyen Dinh Nghia Family Ensemble playing traditional Vietnamese instruments, the Gamelan Dharma Swara and Balinese Dance Troupe from the Indonesian Consulate in New York, Silat martial arts demonstrations by Sh. Bapak Waleed, and the Amnaj Jatuprayoon Dance Troupe of NYC performing the Ramakien Thai Ramayana. Local student and community groups have additionally presented songs, dances, photograph collections, and traditional crafts and clothing from the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos and Cambodia.
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