At Appalachian, diversity is recognized as essential binding agent of the interdisciplinary approach to education, as well as to the greater life experience. In an institutional culture where the full circle of human qualities is regarded with respect and where the particular gifts of every university community member are dignified by conscious recognition, human beings can thrive.
The phrase, "Think globally; act locally," has inspired our national culture to better understand that the world is a multicultural society of which we are a part. The systems of the world - its governments, economies, religions and cultures - are increasingly dependent on interdependence. Differences become strengths in a collaborative effort. Collaboration is a path to peace.
Over the years, Celebration participants have shared their thoughts about the celebration and diversity in a number of ways. Here are some of them:. The Diversity Celebration features a wide array of local and international music, eclectic dancing, delectable food, and imaginative crafts. Appalachian students, faculty, staff, K schools, and members of the local community are all invited to join us in this celebration of cultures through art and entertainment.
This video was produced to promote the Diversity Celebration, but provides a great retrospective of the Festival up to that time. Many of the faces have changed, but the spirit of the Festival remains the same. Diversity, when applied in a human context, comprises the inclusion of a wide variety of cultures, ethnicities and groups, races, religious beliefs, socio-economic backgrounds, sexual orientation and gender identity.
The diversity of life is made up not only of the wide realm of human cultures and languages, but also of the diverse world of plants and animal species, habitats and ecosystems. Therefore, a more sustainable world is one in which biological, cultural and linguistic diversity thrive through the strength of the system. Packed with characters and buzzing with energy, this weekend-long celebration of pride includes one of the oldest and largest LGBTQIA parades in the world.
Nothing like a get together of a hundred thousand people to boost your energy levels! Photo: Antonio La Fauci. Over the course of three days, the remote desert landscape comes to life with performances, folk music and local lore being passed from generation to generation.
Photo: Klook Travel. People fill the streets to literally shower one another with buckets of water and take aim at their fun-loving pals. Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba. The streets vibrate with music, dance, costume and chaos of the best kind.
Photo: Quentin Dr Photography. Taking place over a couple of weeks in October every year, this Munich pop-up of tented beer halls brings out the loudest and most traditionally clad revelers around. Photo: Julian Walter. Burning Man is an annual experiment in creating a city in the Nevada desert. If community building, art installations en masse and bartering sounds like your bag, check it out with a posse.
Photo: Cheryl Juetten. Getting people together around good food, good drinks and excellent company is at the heart of this Portland festival. Photo: Lantern Floating Hawaii. Thousands gather at Moana Beach Park to send notes to lost loved ones afloat. Photo: koeniggalerie.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
By 43 A. In the course of the years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple, and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of bobbing for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
On May 13, A. Pope Gregory III later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted older Celtic rites. In A. The celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there.
Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups and the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the 19th century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country.
In the second half of the 19th century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing the Irish Potato Famine , helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors. In the late s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft.
At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes.
Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century. Search Advanced Search. Panorama Home. Issue Archive. Current Issue. Next Issue. Featured Writer. TIG Magazine. Short Story. My Content. Every year, thousands upon thousands of people choose to leave work, skip school, and possibly come together to form a massive group to celebrate The people come in all shapes and sizes, and nationality need not be an issue.
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