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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 Leonardo Stoute, 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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