Inaugural Piedmont Triad Asian Food & Culture Festival Opens November 14 in North Carolina, With Ten Towns Responding and a Goal of 3,000 Attendees
In Colfax, Guilford County, North Carolina, the inaugural Triad Asian Food & Culture Festival will be held on Saturday, November 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Robert G. Shaw Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.
The Piedmont Triad region comprises Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point, with a metropolitan population of about 1.7 million and a relatively dispersed Chinese community. Led and driven by the local Chinese community, the cultural event has drawn a broad response before it even opens: ten towns in the region are participating or offering support, seven of them have proclaimed November 14 as 'Asian Food & Culture Day,' and three more planned to bring the matter before their city councils on November 10 and 12.
The organizing committee aims to attract more than 3,000 people to the first festival, and food vendor registration has closed. The program includes Asian food, cultural performances, hands-on traditional instrument experiences, family activities, and community and business exhibits. Lü Suosen, a noted Peking opera wusheng performer from New York, and his wife Cheng Shijun, an associate professor in the Music Department of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, will perform together.
The committee said it hopes to build the festival into a lasting cultural brand that crosses the three cities' boundaries, is actively promoted by the Chinese community and shared by all ethnic groups, giving the local Chinese and Asian communities a continuing public platform for engaging mainstream American society. (Source: Triad Asian Food & Culture Festival Organizing Committee)
Source: Triad Asian Food & Culture Festival Organizing Committee
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：活动场地 Robert G. Shaw 皮特蒙德三城农贸市场的入口标识。Greensboro, NC 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Entrance sign of the Robert G. Shaw Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, the festival venue. By Greensboro, NC, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
