The Mekong River program will bring
to Washington approximately 200 artists, performers, craftspeople,
cooks, and ritual specialists from the Mekong region for an unprecedented
cultural confluence. Visitors to the Festival will experience the Mekong
region's diversity firsthand as they listen to Vietnamese folk opera,
watch talented Lao cooks prepare a holiday feast, or join in a Cambodian
wedding procession. Children can try their hands at shaping an earthenware
pot or spinning cotton into thread, while master artists from the Mekong
region will teach their skills to young American dancers and musicians
of Mekong ancestry.
