Skokie Festival of Cultures: Day 1

Name: Skokie Festival of Cultures: Day 1
Start: 2024-05-18T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-18T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Oakton Park

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 11:00 am to 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Oakton Park | Skokie, IL

Since 1991, the event, held at Skokie’s 19-acre Oakton Park, has grown over more than three decades from 14 cultures with 1,000 attendees, to more than 30 cultures and 25,000 visitors, annually. Over two days in May, visitors enjoy ethnic folk music and dance, arts and crafts, international children's games, food and drinks, cultural booths, and the festival’s iconic flag display. The festival has been honored with both state and national art event programming awards.
SATURDAY, MAY 18 - WORLD SHOWCASE STAGE (EAST)
11:00 Academy of Thai Music & Dance Wat Dhammaram
11:30 Tierra Colombiana Dance Ensemble
11:50 Kud Bosna Chicago (Bosnian)
12:30 Wayne Messmer Band (USA)
1:00 Opening Ceremony: National Anthem – Wayne Messmer
2:00 Indonesian Performing Arts of Chicago & KJRI Chicago
2:35 Chicago Korean Choir
3:00 Tatra Mountain Cultural Foundation (Polish)
3:25 Vivanov Dance Group & Bulgaric Cultural Center (Bulgarian)
3:50 Tibetan Alliance of Chicago
4:15 Romanian American Chicago Choir
4:40 Okinawa Cultural Performing Group (Japanese)
5:05 Kokyo Taiko Chicago (Japanese)
5:35 Assyrian American Civic Club of Chicago
SATURDAY, MAY 18 - FAMILY STAGE (SOUTH)
11:25 Nordland Band (Scandinavian)
12:00 Uzbek American Association of Chicago
1:45 Frank K Duo (German)
2:20 Arnulfo Cardenas (Mexican)
2:45 Master Jay's Tae Kwon Do (Korean)
3:15 Fairview South Besties (Hindi)
3:40 Xilin North Shore Chinese School
4:10 Culture in Motion (Indian)
4:30 Kalinka (Russian)
4:45 Los Perros Cubanos
5:20 Yelin Korean Traditional Drumming
More info here: https://www.skokieculturefest.org/
FREE EVENT
May 18 & 19 at 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Oakton Park