Utica Observer-Dispatch: Local website promotes refugee artists,
performers
Published:
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 10:10
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Caro Win, center, teaches Eh Ka and Shalomo Thin dance moves as they
practice at the MidTown Utica Center on Friday, September 4, 2015.
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If you want a Nepalese-Bhutanese dance troupe for your next get-together, you’re in luck.
If you want a group of Thomas R. Proctor High School students who dance hip-hop style to Korean pop music and also happen to be Karen refugees, you’re in luck.
In “the city that loves refugees,” as the Midtown Utica Community Center proclaims, programmers of school “international days” or community celebrations have a new resource for finding multicultural arts and entertainment, all in one online place: a website called refugeeartistsutica.com
It was created through a collaboration between SUNY Polytechnic Institute anthropology Professor Kathryn Stam and Midtown Center President Chris Sunderlin.
Posted Sep. 7, 2015 at 6:19 PM | David Hill
