CONWAY,
Ark. (March 20, 2015) – The Hendrix College Office of Multicultural Student
Services will host the 2015 Multicultural Expo on Saturday, April 4, from 4 – 7
p.m., in the Student Life and Technology Center.
The
Multicultural Expo includes food, fun and fellowship with students representing
their culture or nationality by dressing in cultural attire, making a poster
presentation of the culture or country they are representing, preparing a snack
or appetizer from their culture for people to taste.
Multicultural
Student Services invites students from the University of Arkansas at Little
Rock, University of Central Arkansas, Central Baptist College and Conway High
School, as well as Hendrix students to participate in the event. This year,
Galloway Hall residents will combine their Bollywood Night, featuring delicious
Indian food, with the Multicultural Expo.
Ideas for students participating
at this year’s event include:
-
Learn/teach a folk
dance
- Music from around the
world
- Dance
performance/Singing/ Instruments - Allow people from audience to come share
culture/perform
- Around the world map or
world languages map/game
- Put a large map on the
wall and people put their name/picture on a sticky note and place it on the map
regarding where they are from.
- Fashion show
- Various cultural
games
- Food tasting and facts
or learning how to put together a quick snack
- Scavenger hunt to learn
about cultures - go from booth to booth getting clues
- Creative Art that
relates to culture (ex. henna, makeup)
- Tutorials for certain
clothes (ex. Hijab)
- How to count or speak a
phrase in the certain language
- Guess the culture? Game
- Face paint, balloons,
prizes
For
more information, contact Desh Deepak, Multicultural Student Services
Coordinator, at 501-450-1222 or deepak@hendrix.edu.
See a video from a
previous Multicultural Expo
Founded in
1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences
education. This year, Hendrix was named the country’s #1 “Up and Coming”
liberal arts college and #8 in the nation for “Best Undergraduate Teaching” by U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2015 Fiske Guide
to Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, and the latest
edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges.
Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For
more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.