Lee University will host the 4th Annual Culture Fest at Lee’s Alumni Park, Thursday, March 25, at 5 p.m. Culture Fest is the culminating event of Culture Week, which seeks to celebrate and raise awareness of the cultural diversity found at Lee.
The event is directed by Lee’s Diversity Council and the Consider It Done Committee. This year’s Culture Fest theme is “The Dream” and celebrates that dream of many who have come before us to see unity among a wide array of cultures in one community.
Culture week at Lee includes a series of cultural events organized by each of the six diversity clubs at Lee, International Student Fellowship, Bahamian Connection Club, World African Student Association, Asian Council, Umoja and Familia Unida.
These groups then collaborate to host Thursday’s Culture Fest event.
Culture Fest 2010 will include the ever-popular “Mr. and Miss Diversity” pageant and sampling of homemade international cuisine. Cultural performances will be the highlight of the event, and there will also be a “best attire” competition and giveaways throughout the evening.
At the end of the festival, faculty judges will select one male and one female participant as Mr. and Miss Diversity, based on each contestant’s answer to a proposed question.
Culture Week ends with the Diversity Retreat Friday and Saturday, a time when Lee’s student diversity leaders and various campus stakeholders get together to reflect on the past year, revise goals and learn.
Thursday’s Culture Fest event is free and open to the public. For more information, please email culture@leeuniversity.edu or contact Brie McDaniel at 614-8405.