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Show MIA Planning Two Festivals For Forthcoming Conference come with the processional of flags when 180 flag bearers will enter the Tabernacle from all entrances carrying flags from the 90 countries of the world. Each flag bearer will be fully costumed cos-tumed in the style of dress for the country of the. flag being carried. Entrance will be to original orig-inal music for brass ensemble by Crawford Gates. Two major festivals featuring 2,500 young people in music and drama will highlight the annual MIA June Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints when it meets in Salt Lake City, June 10, 11 and 12, it was announced by General President Bertha S. Reeder and General Superintendent Joseph T. Bentley. The festivals will be the greatest great-est youth drama and music festivals fes-tivals in the world featuring young people from all over the United States, Mexico, Canada. The drama festival of one-act plays and roadshows will begin the conference festival work on Thursday with two performances one at 5:30 and one at 8:30 p.m. This festival will be repeated at the same times on Friday and Saturday. All performances will be at the Terrace, 464 So. Main. The music festival will be presented on Friday and Saturday Satur-day from the Tabernacle on Temple Square. There will be two performances each night, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The MIA conference is a training train-ing conference for leaders of the LDS Church's youth program. Thousands of leaders gather at Salt Lake City for department workshops and general instruction instruc-tion sessions. All workers in the program are urged to attend and others interested are welcome. General conference sessions are scheduled to begin Friday, June 10. For the first time this year drama festival participants and all friends of the drama will be invited to participate in an after theatre supper on Saturday June 11 at 10 p.m. at the Terrace. The drama festival will present about 30 of the best one-act plays prepared and presented by the wards of the Church during the past year. The plays selected for this conference showing were chosen in stake and division competition in the Church. Plays coming will represent many states, Canada and Mexico. Three outstanding roadshows from the Salt Lake City area have been chosen to round out the conference drama festival program. More than 500 young thespians will be on the boards during the conference performances. These players represent more than 50,-000 50,-000 young actors and actresses who appeared in one act plays during the ward and stake production pro-duction season this year. The plays wlil.be produced on three stages simultaneously in the Terrace. There will be two proscenium stages and one arena in the round stage. Tickets for drama productions and the first annual after theatre supper are now available in the MIA offices at 40 North Main in Salt Lake City. The music festival, based on the theme "This is My Father's World," will feature a 2,000-voice 2,000-voice chorus of young people from 16 to 25 years of age. The young people will come from 180 stakes of the Church including besides Utah, Idaho, Arizona and California, such distant areas as Florida, Canada, Seattle, Washington, Wash-ington, D.C., and Mexico. The chorus will sing music from 18 different countries and will be supplemented by special choreography of dances native to some of those countries. The dance numbers will be costumed and staged. In some ' instances, native instruments will be used in accompaniment. Climax of the festival will |