Grant from Center for Cultural Exchange Foundation supports Passport to Cultural International Children’s Festival
A grant from the Center for Cultural Exchange Foundation is providing support for the 51Æ·²èOffices of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity Programs and International Education's Passport to Cultural International Children’s Festival Friday, March 26, 2010 in the Campus Center on the Biddeford Campus.
The festival will bring 220 fourth grade students from Biddeford Intermediate School to the 51Æ·²èBiddeford Campus for a one-day festival to help promote cross-cultural understanding, create goodwill, and enhance elementary students’ awareness of the wider global community.
During difficult economic times, when many schools’ arts and cultural enrichment budgets have been cut, the 51Æ·²èPassport to Culture International Children’s Festival will offer an important arts education experience to schools free of charge with support from a $2,000 grant from the Center for Cultural Exchange Foundation. The Center for Cultural Exchange Foundation is a grant-making foundation dedicated to advancing cultural understanding through arts and education programs in collaboration with diverse communities, artists and arts organizations in the state of Maine.