By Monique Balas
News-Chronicle
Looking for a colorful way to spend your Saturday? The Rainbow Children's Arts Festival might fit the picture.
In its fourth year, the event "is for people of all backgrounds and cultures or ethnicities to just come in and share different activities with each other," said coordinator Katharine Kulkoski. "It's to promote unity and harmony and goes along with the concept that just by exploring different cultures, there's more respect for each other's cultures and the diversity that goes along with that. We don't gear it toward any one particular type of culture or ethnicity."
A series of booths will provide participants with different types of art activities. Children can paint a picture on an easel, make masks or dream catchers, create a musical instrument or macramé necklace, get their faces painted or work off their energy with a balloon maze.
Karaoke will be new this year, but the event will feature plenty of song and dance as well.
"It's a multiethnic festival, and we have kids who are performing," Kulkoski said. "We have someone doing East Indian dance and Hmong dance."
Food will range from Holy Smokers barbecue to Jamaican, Cajun, Nigerian and East Indian rice dishes - "and hamburgers and hot dogs of course," Kulkoski said.
The event is hosted by the Multicultural Center of Greater Green Bay and funded through grants provided by the Northeast Wisconsin Arts Council, the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Apple Family Foundation.
Last year, about 700 people attended the festival, Kulkoski said. "It's been kind of a work in progress," she said. "It's been very successful the last three years."
FYI:
The fourth annual Rainbow Children's Arts Festival will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at St. James Park, Monroe Avenue and Congress Streets. The event will include free ethnic food as well as hamburgers and hot dogs, musical, dance and theater productions and various art activities for children. All events and food are free and open to the public.
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