Turkish Cultural Festival at 2720 Cherokee
It’s only $20.00 for authentic Turkish food catered
by Aya Sofia restaurant, a performance by Mr. Farshid Soltanshahi, a
widely renowned Persian musician who tours nationally and is returning home to
St. Louis so that he can perform for us, a performance by a professional belly
dancer, and several booths to tour where you can learn about Turkish history
and art. Some of the booths will be hands-on, so you can take home your
own work of art at the end of the evening if you want! Or just sit back
with a cocktail, a hookah, and some baklava and watch the dancing and listen to
the music. I really don’t see how you could go wrong by coming to this
event! See below for all the formal details.
Louis proudly presents
Turkish
Cultural Festival
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
2720 Cherokee • 6:00-9:00 PM
6:00 PM
Registration and cocktail reception
6:30PM
Explanation of booths by teachers
7:15 PM
Time to explore booths, eat, drink, watch
and listen!
$20.00
per person
Call
Jessica at 314-727-9988 or email at jbellomo@wac-stl.org to make a reservation.
Booths
Architectural Columns
Belly Dancing
Evil Eye
Food (catered by Aya Sofia Restaurant)
Hookah
Items from Turkey
Kilims
Paper Marbling
Shadow Puppets
Tour if Turkey
Virtual Tour of Aya Sofia
Study
Tour of Turkey
Sponsored jointly by the Turkish
Cultural Foundation and WAC, teachers from Webster Groves High School, Rosati-Kain
High School, and Brunswick R-II, were part of a group of 57 high school
teachers that visited Turkey for two weeks during the summer of 2011. Added to
those WAC selected and sent in previous years, 17 teachers from St. Louis have
now taken part in this program. The goal is for these teachers to work with WAC
to develop cultural and educational programs that introduce Turkey to the local
community and into their class rooms.
Teachers
Returning from Study Tour 2011
Ms. Deborah
Genovese
Concepts of Art, Statesmen
Individualized Art Grades 9-12
Webster Groves High
School
Ms. Meredith White
Modern World
History Grade 10, Economics Grade 11 and 12
Rosati-Kain High
School
Ms. Cindy Woolston
World Cultures
(middle school), World History Grade 11
Brunswick R-II
School District
Mr. Farshid
Soltanshahi
Born in Iran, Mr.
Soltanshahi is an multi-instrumentist who started the guitar at the age of 16,
studied and worked in France for 15 years as industrial drafter, professional
musician and guitar and Middle Eastern instruments instructor. He also
performed and toured France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg with
"Internote" band in collaboration with Pascal Schaeffer. He moved to
US in 1999 and pursuing World music, Latin Jazz Blues with Middle Eastern influences.