2010 Celebrate Lincoln
June 18, 2010 - June 19, 2010
Downtown Lincoln, 12th - 14th Streets on N Street(Select Another Event)
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Mission StatementGOLincolnGO's Celebrate Lincoln International Festival is a collaborative multicultural event, promoting cultural awareness and appreciation through live music, food, crafts, artwork, dance and activities from around the world. Lincoln is changing In the last fifteen years something surprising has happened. It began with the boat people, mostly Vietnamese and Cambodians, coming in after the Vietnam War. In the 1980s Lincoln began having a few Asian markets, a Vietnamese Catholic church, a Buddhist temple, and English Language Learners (ELL) classes. Around the same time, Mexican migrant workers, who had long done seasonal work in our area, bought houses and settled down. Refugees from the wars in Central America trickled in. The real change occurred in the 1990s. Because Lincoln had almost no unemployment and a relatively low cost of living, Lincoln was selected by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement as a preferred community for newly arrived refugees. Now we are one of the top-twenty cities in America for new arrivals from abroad. Our non-white population has grown 128 percent since 1990.* We have children from fifty different nationalities who speak thirty-two different languages in our public schools.* In the 2001-02 school year, 5.2% of the student population in Lincoln Public Schools were English Language Learner students-up from 4.8 the year before.** * Pipher, Mary “The Middle of Everywhere,” Harcourt Books, 2002 ** Lincoln Public Schools statistics, “English Language Learners Student Counts for the Past School Years 1989-2002” from Teresa Justin Information courtesy of John Chapo, Executive Director Folsom Children’s Zoo Notice: Persons attending Celebrate Lincoln may be photographed in still or motion images for news, archival, informational or promotional purposes of the event or of Updowntowners, Inc. Persons attending Celebrate Lincoln on behalf of themselves and any minors accompanying them consent to being phototgraphed for any and all such purposes without any present or future compensation of any kind, and waive any rights to publicity, privacy or compensation for any use or re-publication of such photographs at any time now or in the future. |
