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Show f ' I '? f: Nr I l ' 3 i j ' I i - 1 -I - f -"", , . " !I i! " i ! - - - 1 1- j 1 1 - f a- 1 1 i .' I ,x v v f v . 1 1 5 V f p , pp-rr- V? "" J t; ' ? f 1 I kf.Ti,, Vn.nr.m.W, vf.vA ... ... At Jl, c. iiSffi jf fcLliliiiiMIWM. 'jfcwj INTERCULTUML FESTIVAL An expanded Intercultural Understanding (ICU) Festival is planned Saturday at Saltair Beach of the Great Salt Lake. THE FIRST annual program is under the direction of Hinauri Tribole, Bountiful, and Alicia Primack, co-founders co-founders of the festival. Jim Silver, Bountiful, co-owner of Saltair, is providing the facilities. facili-ties. "This is a dream come true," said Hinauri. "We have had the concept for this type of an intercultural festival for a long time but now we are final- The first Intercultural Understanding (ICU) Festival in Utah is planned Saturday on the beach of Saltair. Festivities will begin at 11 a.m. and conclude about 4:30 p.m. Planning the event are Alice Kasai, Japanese-American, Japanese-American, seated; Wil Numkena, Hopi Indian; and Hinauri Tribole, Bountiful, a native Maori from New Zealand. ly able to put it to reality." AT THE same time, Gov. Scott M. Matheson has proclaimed proc-laimed Saturday, Aug. 14, as Intercultural Understanding Day in Utah. Festivities will begin at 1 1 a.m. and will feature a variety of entertainment - representing represent-ing several foreign cultures --each --each half hour until 4 p.m. Admission is free. "REMINISCENT of the Days of '47, Utah in 1982 is on the threshold of yet another challenge," according to the ICU founders. "Yesterday it faced a wilderness of sagebrush sageb-rush and sand while today's challenge is a seeming wilderness wilder-ness of multi-cultural transplants trans-plants uprooted from the four corners of the world. Whether or not Utah is sensitive sen-sitive to the sudden spurt of multi-culturalism in its midst it must now face the fact that the ethnic population growth will continue to impact upon the social landscape of Utah. Another certain fact. Ethnic societies have now put down their roots in Utah soil. THESE PRIME facts present pre-sent Utah with the unique opportunity to cultivate a multi-cultural garden, nurturing the exotic groups side by side with the indigenous stock. In the fullness of time they will blossom into theirown fullness of human beauty and human dignity. Another vision, another promise to hold fast. Another desert to blossom as the rose. Another reason and another need for the formation of ICU. ..Intercultural Understanding. |