Folklorama
folklorama event run two week august winnipeg manitoba canada visitor festival invited sample cuisine celebrate cultural ethnic heritage people dozen culture made winnipeg home folklorama world largest longestrunning multicultural festival culture assigned venue known pavilion typically pavilion presented throughout city half operating week one half week two festival pavilion present show featuring song dance culture along trademark ethnic cuisine cultural display pavilion also incorporate additional service henna tattoo application steel pan drum workshop late night party pavilion provide imported cultural beverage folklorama provides exposure cultural group brings thousand tourist year adding city economy largest longestrunning festival kind world folk art council winnipeg organizing body folklorama folklorama first held august centennial folk festival sponsored jointly city winnipeg folk art council manitoba originally intended onetime occurrence celebration manitoba centennial deemed success became annual event first festival week long featuring different culture indian greek portuguese ukraine africacaribbean pavilion one festival original six pavilion drew approximately people across separate pavilion visit festival adopted current twoweek format half pavilion open week folklorama logo designed andy stout provincial logo contest figure logo represent people four corner globe intertwined arm raised celebration festival mascot folklorama llama created pavilion would mayor queen queen would running miss folklorama pageant closing ceremony festival miss folklorama pageant beauty pageant contest ethnic preservation presentation pavilion queen scored based knowledge culture country participation poise personality since pavilion feature two adult ambassador two youth ambassador neither must specific gender th edition folklorama festival pavilion first week including african argentina tango budapesthungaria caribbean celtic ireland chile egyptian el salvador ethiopian first nation german greek india israel shalom square korean españaspain portugal scandinavian serbianbeograd slovenija ukraine spirt ukraine united kingdom pavilion second week including africacaribbean brazilian canadienfrançais chilean chinese croatian zagreb hungarypannonia irish italian japanese métis mexican scotland philippine pearl orient portuguese casa minho polish punjab romanian russian serbian kolo south sudanese tamil ukrainekyiv folklorama cancelled due covid pandemic resumed pavilion increase attendance number pavilion offered increased throughout year folklorama sustained ethnocultural art division program folklorama home folklorama school folklorama work folklorama play average folklorama receives approximately pavilion visit year festival received pavilion visit pavilion majority attend festival visit one pavilion pavilion visitor come outside winnipeg typically entertainer perform show throughout twoweek festival average meal served beverage poured conclusion festival approximately volunteer participate make folklorama possible folklorama economic impact million manitoba economy