BES FOOD E T CRAFTS H O T F a taste of tradition crafting a tradition The stories, smells, memories and tastes of beloved foods are This year we celebrate 30 years of presenting craft artists at work. the things that people hold on to longest in their lives, dispite 30 You may see familiar faces as we feature some of the most skilled changes through time, geography, and even language. Whether YEARS and engaging individuals who have demonstrated over the years foodways are adapted by immigrants long settled or those newly and welcome new ones to the festival. Their work is inspired by arrived, we all can share generations’ worth of techniques and the human urge to make music, to celebrate, to commemorate, to wisdom in every bite, along with cooks’ stories from some of the FOOD & CRAFT worship, to adorn, or to delight the senses. Like the music heard cultures that make up the American foodscape, such as African TRADITIONS on festival stages, these craft traditions have been handed down American, Chinese, Jamaican, Polish, Puerto Rican and beyond. within families, ethnicities, occupations, or apprenticeships. foodways 2pm: Walk through the folk craft area and you will observe master craftspeople carving demo schedule West African chicken peanut stew letterforms in stone, working clay, marbling paper, and carving fruit so stunningly it defies saturday & sunday Charles Coe eating. Watch musical instrument makers plane a plank of spruce or insert a decorative Noon: 3pm: inlay. Marvel at the material culture of Lithuanian mid-summer. Pose in one of the Hat Polish pierogi Jamaican fish Tea Ladies of Fiesta’s creations as you learn how one venerable tradition spawns a new one. Dottie N. Flanagan Nicola Williams You will even have the chance sit down and experience culture-specific traditions of folk 1pm: 4pm: beauty that originate in Africa and India, and continue in American communities. Puerto Rican surprise Chinese soba noodles for salad and soup Jeanette Rodriquez Max Gow Greek Bouzouki and Oud Making craft Chris Pantazelos - Lowell, MA & crafters Lithuanian Summer Solstice Celebrations Fruit Carving Jonas Stundžia - Lawrence, MA ethnic foods Ruben Arroco - Lowell, MA where to find them Mehndi Bridal Art The Hat Ladies of Fiesta Noureen Sultana & Danish Khan - Framingham, MA Robyn and Amy Clayton - Gloucester, MA Boarding House Park JFK Plaza Kolam Art: Daily Ritual Filipino - Iskwelahang Pilipino Polish - Lowell Polish Cultural Committee Guitars and Puerto Rican Cuatro Making Tamil Makkai Mandram, Inc. - Bedford, MA William Cumpiano - Easthampton, MA Jamaican / Indian - The Seed Laotian - Lao United Church of Lowell Hair Culture from Africa to America Hispanic - Lowell Latin Catholic Community of Jamaican / Indian - The Seed Redware Pottery Sellou Coly & Lujuana Hood - Springfield, MA Saint Patrick Parish Greek - Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Stephen Earp - Shelburne Falls, MA Margy Green - Chicopee, MA Greek - Hellenic American Academy PTA Armenian - Armenian Relief Society Carving Letterforms in Stone Chena River Marblers Middle Eastern - St. George Antiochian Church Laotian - Wat Buddhabhavana Jesse Marsolais - Millbury, MA Regina & Dan St. John - Amherst, MA Laotian - Wat Lao Mixayaram Portuguese - Portuguese American Veterans

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