Taste of Africa Food Festival and Cultural Evening at SMU part of African Unity Festival
By DFW International
May 31, 2008
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Dallas, TX - Dallas The DFW International Community Alliance will hold the Taste of Africa Food Festival and Cultural Evening on Sunday, June 1.  The public is welcome to attend the Food Festival, which will be held at 6:30 pm at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center at SMU. 

A reception in Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. will open the food festival at 5:30.  Tickets are $15 for adults and include food as well as beverages at the reception.  The Taste of Africa Food Festival is sponsored by the Embrey Family Foundation, SMU, Coca Cola, Ben E. Keith, and Barefoot Wine.

"I'm honored to invite you to this historic event," said African Unity Festival Co-Chair Florence Coker-Campbell. " Join us in creating awareness of Africans in the metroplex. The beauty of Mother Africa lies in the strength of her people: her people's strength lies in Africa's unity."

The Taste of Africa Food Festival is the closing event in the African Unity Festival, the first North Texas celebration to spotlight New Americans from the continent of Africa, and will include participation by 24 local African cultural organizations.  The three elements in the African Unity Festival are:

The DFW Unity Cup is a six week long soccer tournament with the Third Place and Championship games at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 31st at the UT Dallas Soccer Field in Richardson.  Tickets for the games are $5 and are available at the door. Children under 10 are free.

Sunday, June 1, 1 to 5 p.m., Africa Day at J. Erik Jonsson Central Library will include interactive workshops for children, African arts and crafts and cultural booths. Free.

Sunday, June 1, 6:30 p.m., Taste of Africa Food Festival and Cultural Evening at the SMU Hughes-Trigg Student Center. The evening will include dishes from 12 African countries, cultural displays, Parade of Nations and DFW Africa Unity Cup awards. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for children 5 to 10; children under 5 free.

Tickets are available at the door or online at http://www.dfwinternational.org/AfricanUnity/.

An event flier can be downloaded at www.dfwinternational.org/AfricanUnity. 

North Texan African communities participating in the events include: Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda.       

DFW International Community Alliance is the portal for global North Texas, a network of 1,600 of the regions ethnic and internationally-focused civic, community and educational organizations. Its mission is to build mutual understanding and respect by linking diverse international cultural communities. The organization promotes and links North Texas global groups through its website and cultural calendar at http://www.dfwinternational.org/ . 

For more details about DFW International Community Alliance, see the media page HERE  or call (972) 661-2764.