MOVABLE FEAST FESTIVAL TO SHOW OFF WORLDWIDE HERITAGE.Byline: Peggy Peggy may refer to:
PALMDALE - Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents will perform dances from their ancestral ANCESTRAL. What relates to or has, been done by one's ancestors; as homage ancestral, and the like. countries and offer free samples of a variety of ethnic food at the ninth annual International Heritage Festival. Organized by the Antelope Valley International Heritage Committee and co-sponsored by the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, the festival will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Desert Sands Park, 39101 3rd St. E. ``Come out and enjoy a day of sunshine, entertainment and food,'' invited Peter Mok, the heritage committee chairman. ``At the same token, they can learn something about different cultures from other people. So come out and join us.'' The festival will feature entertainment and food from various ethnic groups. Activities will begin at 10 a.m. with a colorful parade of people dressed in the costumes of nations where their ancestors Ancestors See also father; heredity; mother; origins; parents; race. archaism an inclination toward old-fashioned things, speech, or actions, especially those of one’s ancestors. Also archaicism. — archaist, n. lived. Chinese, Filipino, Indian, American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. , Hispanic Hispanic Multiculture A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race Social medicine Any of 17 major Latino subcultures, concentrated in California, Texas, Chicago, Miam, NY, and elsewhere , Aztecs and Polynesian groups will perform. Last year's festival drew nearly 800 people. Li Lin Lin performed a Chinese folk dance folk dance, primitive, tribal, or ethnic form of the dance, sometimes the survival of some ancient ceremony or festival. The term is used also to include characteristic national dances, country dances, and figure dances in costume to folk tunes. and Angelita Rice performed a Filipino dance Tuesday at Desert Sands Park in a preview of this year's festival. There also were samples of ethnic foods. The festival will be open to the public with free admission. Food samples will also be free. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Angelita Rice, left, performs a Filipino folk dance and Li Lin Lin, below, a Chinese dance on Tuesday in a preview of the ninth annual International Heritage Festival that will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Desert Sands Park in Palmdale. (3 -- 4 - color) Above, guests at a Tuesday preview of the ninth annual International Heritage Festival in Palmdale enjoy samples of food from many lands. At left, Angelita Rice gives an advance look at her Filipino dance to be performed at the Saturday festival. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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