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SUMMARY:Celebrate Nashville: Scarritt Bennett's Celebration of Cultures Turns 30
DESCRIPTION:As the inaugural guest of the new state-of-the-art Event Pavilion in Centennial Park\, and in honor of the Festival’s 30th Anniversary\, Scarritt Bennett Center celebrates the origins of Celebrate Nashville Cultural Festival\, once called Celebration of Cultures. The Festival had its beginnings at Scarritt Bennett 30 years ago and the event was designed to honor our predecessor\, Scarritt College\, which trained hundreds of men and women for service in Asia\, Africa and Europe. Understanding\, honoring and welcoming people’s cultures across the world was an important part of their education and the legacy lives on today.\n\nSchedule\n10:30 am  Nashville Chamber Music\n11:15 am  Hadley Park Line Dancers\n11:45 am Jefferson Furtado Latin\n12:30 pm Sankofa African Dance & Drum\n1:00 pm Yuri  Rodriguez\n2:00 pm Tennessee Indigenous Women Circle – storytelling\n3:00 pm Indian Fashion Show\n4:00 pm W. Crim Singers\n5:00 pm Nashville African American Wind Symphony\n\nCELEBRATION OF CULTURES HISTORY\nIn 1995 Scarritt-Bennett Center recognized a need within the rapidly growing and changing Nashville community. The population was becoming more diversified and people were in need of ways to under stand and appreciate each other’s differences. The Celebration of Cultures was established to provide an avenue for different cultures to share their traditions through music\, dance\, activities\, food\, and crafts. The popular multi-cultural festival became an annual event held on the Scarritt Bennett Center campus\, attracting 5\,000 people from the sur rounding neighborhoods each summer.\n\nFor the next nine years the festival\, which was held at Scarritt Bennett Center on 19th & Grand every year in July\, continued to grow with the needs of the community. After many years\, however\, the festival become too large for the Scarritt Bennett Center grounds\, and\, wanting to truly incorporate the community by providing the event free of charge\, Scarritt Bennett skipped a year to plan a different location\, time\, and include a new partner\, Nashville Metro Parks & Recreation.\n\nOn October 6\, 2006\, 15\,000 people from the Nashville area witnessed the rebirth of a new Celebration of Cultures at its new location in Centennial Park. The festival reached out to over 30 cultures and through dance\, music\, visual arts\, a children’s area\, and exotic food samplings. As a community we were introduced to our neighbors.\n\nThe original mission of Celebration of Cultures was to celebrate and embrace cultural diversity through respecting\, understanding\, and appreciating the cultures of the Greater Nashville population. Today\, the tradition continues. Although it is now called Celebrate Nashville\, it continues each year as an annual event that provides a spectacular interaction of our unique diversity and an exciting awareness and education of who we are as Nashville people.
URL:https://scarrittbennett.org/event/celebrate-nashville-scarritt-bennetts-celebration-of-cultures-turns-30/
LOCATION:Centennial Park Event Pavilion
CATEGORIES:Community Gatherings,Concerts
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