Johnson High School's annual MultiCultural Festival began in the spring of 2007. It was sponsored by the Arts Communications and Humanities Academy in cooperation with the Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation Academy. Students from those academies helped plan it, based loosely on Central's and Harding's models.
Our partners at 3M, led by Dick Streeper, also contributed. Just the 200 students in those two academies attended the festival, though students from throughout Johnson set up the booths and entertained the crowd. Prizes were awarded to the dancers from Motion Crew and the Venezuela booth. It was a great success.
In 2008, the festival was available for 400+ students whose teachers signed up, and 5th graders from Farnsworth came as well. There were more booths (great food!), more varied entertainment acts, and bocce ball. Winners for the best entertainment and booth went to Allie Schmitz and the green Hmong booth.
The 2009 festival was another success. We had 22 booths, including Japanese selling sno-cones, firefighters selling 5 alarm chili, African-Jamaicans selling fried chicken, several booths selling sushi and a whole lot more. The talented acts performing included return engagements by singer Amanda Yang and dancers Allie Schmitz and Hannah Hildebrand, and new talent Mai Yang Xiong, The Half, Latin Fusion dancers, and Beautiful Generation.
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