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A8 | Thursday, October 11, 2018 Back Page The Dinuba Sentinel Raisin Festival extension is a multi-cultural spectacular
An exchange student sings a song from his home country of India.
Dressed in her native attire, this exchange student from Poland performed a song in the Polish language.
The colorful dresses of folkloric dancers always make for vibrant display of culture. Sunday's entertainment lineup was full of color.
A young Punjabi dancer takes in the day as his group entertains a large crowd at Rose Vuich Park last Sunday. After their performance the group invited the public to join them in front of the stage for a multi-cultural dance.
One of the crowd favorites to perform at the Rose Ann Vuich band stand are the young Mexican folkoric dancers, who bring culture to life by way of traditional music and dance.
This group traveled from Woodlake to perform at last Sunday's multi-cultural event.
Multi-cultural event completes festival
Sentinel staff report
If your Raisin Harvest Festival celebration ended on Saturday, you missed out an what was a colorful and entertaining extension of the festival.
For the past four years the Dinuba Bilingual Kiwanis Club has been commissioned to extend the festival celebration into Sunday and over the years the event has only been getting bigger.
This year's Sunday attendance at Rose Ann Vuich Park may have been at an all time high. Traditionally, there are some park goers that do take advantage of one more day at the carnival. But in the past the carnival was the only entertainment
available on Sundays.
That's all changed thanks to the Dinuba Bilingual
Kiwanis Club. This year the majority of craft
vendors were selling goods at the Park last Sunday.
Furthermore, there were several food vendors
available as well. Combined with an entertaiment
line up that featured Mexican folkloric dancers, the
talents of local exchange students, a Punjabi dance
group and even Hawaiian dancers and you have
the makings of an extravagant multi-cultural event. The choreography of the Punjabi dance group that performed at last Sunday's multi-cultural
"This is our fourth year doing it," said Dinuba event at Rose Ann Vuich Park was equally as colorful as the groups traditional attire. The group Bilingual Kiwanis Club president Ramon Rivera. delighted a large crowd as part of a long line of entertainment.
"Every year it gets bigger. Next year we plan on having more food vendors."
Photos by Rick Curiel | The Sentinel