ECHO Festival of the Performing Arts

ECHO Festival of the Performing Arts
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Sunday March 8, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Brown University Campus, Salomon 101/DeCiccio Family Auditorium
 
The Eight Annual ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) Festival of the Performing Arts, entitled The Way to the Heart: Changing Food, Foodways, and Culture, visits Providence with storytellers, singers and dancers coming together to share the cultures of Cape Verde, the Wampanoag of Massachusetts, the Iñupiaq and Gwich’in Athabascan people of Alaska, the Chickasaw/Choctaw of Oklahoma, and the Native people of the Hawaiian Islands. Bring your family for a fun and educational afternoon and then join us in our gallery in Manning Hall for a reception.  Program takes place in Salomon 101 / Deciccio Family Auditorium.  Reception follows in Manning Hall.  ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) is administered by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement.   The performance is a collaboration of the Haffenreffer and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. This program is free and open to the public.