PB Film

7th Annual

Contact
Susan Berkowitz-Schwartz
All People’s Day Founder/President
[email protected]
(561) 495-9818

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Celebrate the seventh All People’s Day Diversity Festival on Saturday, March 19, 2016 indoors at Pompey Park 1101 NW 2nd Street and NW 10th Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444.  The main events are from 11.00 am to 5:00 pm and a kid’s workshop is from 9:30 to 11 am.  We are proud that Delray Parks and Recreation join All People’s Day, Inc. and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women SPBC in presenting the festival for the second year!  It’s free to the public and boasts a wide variety of connective activities for the whole family.

The Main Events starting at 11 am showcase 20 dazzling performances of dance, music, and social theatre by beautifully costumed African-American, European, Caribbean, Asian, Middle–Eastern, Latino and a variety of other artists.  They take to the stage in 15 minute intervals treating the attendees to a vast array of cultural experiences.  Great prizes donated by local artists and businesses will be raffled off.

Over 50 interactive and merchandise booths feature a diverse mix to see and do.  Kids will find arts projects such as Origami Peace Crane folding, puppet making with a stage to perform, and creating images of their families that connect to others on a mural.  Teens and adults enjoy hands on issue based activities among which are a health fair, clever word games by nonprofits and mouthwatering international cuisine.  Also present will be for sale items such as artwork, stylish tee-shirts and jewelry etc.

Prior to all this, a free workshop from 9:30 to 11:00 am will teach children to make the Craft Dough People.  In addition to being great fun, this is a visual and easily understood illustration that all people are made from the same materials and should therefore be treated with equal respect.  Pre-registration for the workshop is open to the first 30 kids, age’s four to eleven, who sign-up by calling (561) 495-9818.  Also a packaged craft kit, based on this project, will be available for groups of five or ten for a donation that amounts to less than $5 for each participant.

All People's Day® is a diversity holiday and 501c3 nonprofit that fosters connections among people through the arts. Why do we need a diversity holiday?  A holiday states the values of the people who celebrate it and reinforces those values.  This holiday champions the issues and rights of people of different colors, religions ages and cultures plus gays, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities.  It is especially important in this time of strife as well as opportunity.  Proclamations and tributes have been issued by city, county, and state officials.  Our dream is to become a national holiday one day soon.

Created by Susan Berkowitz-Schwartz (pictured center) in 1973, All People's Day® was celebrated
for 35 years in New Jersey and in south Florida for what will now be their sixth year.