Tried and True, Meets Something New -- at the annual Asian Summer Festival
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| Contestants in traditional attire, at the Miss United Refugee 2005 Asian Festival Pageant. (Photo by Brian Bull) |
Thousands of people converged in Madison's Reindahl Park this weekend (8/27-28/05), for the Asian Summer Festival. The annual event typically draws in visitors and participants from all over the U-S, to honor the Hmong, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Chinese cultures among others. And while promoters emphasize the festival's traditional Asian songs and activities, the influence of 21st century-Americana is hard to miss. Brian Bull prepared this report....
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| Left: Cambodian and Hmong players play kato, which resembles volleyball except that no hands can be used to send the ball over the net. Right: Classic Hmong dresses hang above a vendor's tent. (Photos by Brian Bull) |
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