{"id":213832,"date":"2019-05-12T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=213832"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:30:54","slug":"immigrant-fest-to-feature-attractions-from-5-arab-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/immigrant-fest-to-feature-attractions-from-5-arab-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Fest to feature attractions from 5 Arab countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The 24th<\/sup> edition of the traditional Immigrant Fest will feature attractions from 48 different countries, including five Arab ones. Syria, Palestine, Morocco, Iraq and Egypt will be represented at the event, with cuisine, music, dance, handicraft, workshops and storytelling. The festival will take place on June 2, 8 and 9 at the Immigration Museum in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme will be \u201cReconnect with your Roots,\u201d in a celebration of the knowledge and culture of the immigrant and descendant communities that help inform the State of S\u00e3o Paulo. The Museum\u2019s executive director Alessandra Almeida spoke with ANBA. \u201cWe want to prompt our audience to reflect about this new migration flow, because immigrant is as relevant and current a topic as ever. Our society needs to deal with it responsibly and generously,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The event highlights not only historical migrant peoples in S\u00e3o Paulo, but contemporary ones as well \u2013 including Venezuelans, Syrians, Mozambicans, Bolivians and Cameroonians. \u201cWe want all peoples to feel represented in our event,\u201d said Almeida.<\/p>\n

To the director, Arab peoples are second to none. \u201cThe Arabs were really important when it came to building the S\u00e3o Paulo identity, and we will portray a bit of the plurality of cultures that made such a big contribution to the development of S\u00e3o Paulo,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n

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