FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL 2010-AM

INTERNATIONAL DAY

FROM: Steve Steinberg, Coordinator, FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DAY 2010

Ms. Flores - KOREA

Ms. Knight - MEXICO

Ms. Sakhakorn & Ms. Rosen - CHINA/TAIWAN

Ms. Cuseo - EUROPE (Poland/France/Germany/Italy/Spain/Russia/Romania etc.)

Mr. Mahdesian - SOUTH AMERICA (Chile/Brazil/Columbia/Argentina/Peru etc.)

Mr. Terrence - ASIA  
(Japan/Thailand/Philippines/Vietnam/Cambodia etc.)

Ms. Popovian - MIDDLE EAST (Armenia/Iran/Egypt/Turkey/Iraq/Israel etc.)

Ms. Kitch - CENTRAL AMERICA                                             
(El Salvador/Costa Rica/Honduras/Guatemala etc.)

Ms. Contreras - FAR EAST                   (India/Pakistan/Bangladesh etc.)

Mr. Steinberg - OTHER        (Australia/Antarctica/Canada/Caribbean, New Zealand etc.)

  
Kick-off Assembly - Festival International 2010-AM--

DAY TEACHERS: Please excuse your 8:00am ESL classes at 9:45am and come with them to the Auditorium.  Please encourage students from your 10:15am classes to arrive early that day and attend the 9:45am Kick-off Assembly, and inform them that mid-morning classes will begin at 10:30am that day.

There will be a presentation to introduce students to the format of International Day and explain how they can be involved, including photos and movies of past events.

Students (and a teacher/helper per each country or region) will then separate into their national groups and begin to make plans concerning their performances, food, table displays, etc. Food costs will be reimbursed but there is a strict budget per country.

There will be a sign-up for students and teachers/staff interested in performing (And thanks again for your cooperation and assistance during this Assembly!)

Thursday, March 18^th, 2010-

         
Meeting for All Performers
          
from 9:45am to 10:30am in the Rinaldi Auditorium.

Steve Steinberg and Bruce Terrence will schedule individually with performers for rehearsals and stage time as needed OUTSIDE of scheduled class times, either during the break or before or after classes.

Tuesday, March 23 ^rd, 2010-

      
Final Assembly - Festival International 2010-AM

from 9:45am to 10:30am in the Rinaldi Auditorium.

Please observe the same schedule as above concerning the timing for this final preparation Assembly. Meeting again in the national groups (with a teacher/helper per group) this is when we’ll confirm and finalize all the details for the International Day Festival 2010.

Friday, March 26 ^th, 2010-

 
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DAY 2010-AM

will be held from 9:00am to 12:00pm.

Performances will be held in the Auditorium, the various national groups will set up table displays and food stations. Each student attending the Festival will be issued a student admission ticket plus one adult guest invitation ticket which shall be exchanged upon arrival at the check-in table for name tags for them and their guest to wear while attending the Festival. There will also be information about our various educational opportunities and offerings, including class schedules and information for pre-registration for Summer and Fall sessions.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL 2010-PM

INTERNATIONAL EVE

TO: All Rinaldi Adult Center Teachers, Staff, and Students-- Evening Classes

FROM: Steve Steinberg, Coordinator, FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL EVE 2010

Wednesday, March 10^th, 2010-

EVENING TEACHERS: Please come with your ESL classes to the Auditorium.  There will be a presentation to introduce students to the format of International Eve and explain how they can be involved, including photos and movies of past events.

Students (and a teacher/helper per each country or region) will then separate into their national groups and begin to make plans concerning their performances, food, table displays, etc. Food costs will be reimbursed but there is a strict budget per country.

There will be a sign-up for students and teachers/staff interested in performing (And thanks again for your cooperation and assistance during this Assembly!)

Thursday, March 18^th, 2010-

     
Meeting for All Performers

from 6:45pm to 7:35pm in the Rinaldi Auditorium.

Steve Steinberg and Bruce Terrence will schedule individually with performers for rehearsals and stage time as needed OUTSIDE of scheduled class times, either during the break or before or after classes.

Wednesday, March 24 ^th, 2010-

      
Final Assembly - Festival International 2010-PM

Please observe the same schedule as above concerning the timing for this final preparation Assembly. Meeting again in the national groups (with a teacher/helper per group) this is when we’ll confirm and finalize all the details for the International Eve Festival 2010.

Thursday, March 25 ^th, 2010-

       FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL EVE 2010-PM

Performances will be held in the Auditorium, the various national groups will set up table displays and food stations. Each student attending the Festival will be issued a student admission ticket plus one adult guest invitation ticket which shall be exchanged upon arrival at the check-in table for name tags for them and their guest to wear while attending the Festival. There will also be information about our various educational opportunities and offerings, including class schedules and information for pre-registration for Summer and Fall sessions.

FEATURED ARTICLES 

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

International Day Has a Lesson for All

June 13, 1993

* In the midst of much publicity about homophobia and gang wars, it was refreshing and heartening for me to attend Rinaldi Adult Center, Granada Hills, on May 27 to witness International Day.

Students from some 40 countries presented their respective cultures through dance, song and displays of crafts and food.

We need to remember from time to time that the United States is unique--as Walt Whitman said, "a nation of nations," indeed a model of the United Nations, which endeavors to address common human needs and to promote living peacefully and productively together.

The attitudes of the students are of gratitude for the opportunity to learn basic skills, which may be a lesson for those of us who take schooling for granted and often with boredom.

LAURA WOOLEY SMITH

Granada Hills

Smith is co-president of the San Fernando Valley chapter of the United Nations Assn. of the United States of America.

©Copyright 2009 Los Angeles Times

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VALLEY FOCUS | Granada Hills

Students Celebrate International Day

May 22, 1998|EDWARD M. YOON

Students representing more than two dozen nations Thursday celebrated the Rinaldi Adult Center's 15th annual International Day.

"Welcome to the United Nations of the San Fernando Valley," Elaine Portnoy, assistant principal at the Granada Hills campus, told participants.

About 100 English as a Second Language students representing such lands as Korea, China, El Salvador, Columbia, Thailand, Iran, Indonesia, Ecuador, Argentina, Armenia and Mexico participated in skits, song and dance numbers and other performances.

"International Day is a chance for our adult students to show one another and our staff the beauty of their own cultures," Portnoy said. "What's unique about this school is that we have students here from several different cultures as opposed to one or two predominant cultures."

The program included magic tricks and a Tae Kwon Do demonstration.

Following the show, students and faculty browsed around the classrooms, which were decorated with furnishings, artifacts, travel posters, clothing and furniture from the various cultures, followed by lunch consisting of cuisine from the different cultures.

"I think the best thing about today is that I get to see the best of other cultures," said Treewan Kulpaya , a resident of North Hollywood, who performed a dance from her native Thailand. "There were some things I never knew before and it's very beautiful."

©Copyright 2009 Los Angeles Times

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Class Notes 

NEWS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS

May 20, 1998|DIANE WEDNER, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

EVENTS

Cultural Exchange: Hundreds of students representing 30 countries will celebrate International Day beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Los Angeles Unified School District's Rinaldi Adult Center in Granada Hills. The multicultural event will feature stage performances, ethnic foods and classrooms decorated with the art and textiles from the students' native lands.

©Copyright 2009 Los Angeles Times

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Rinaldi Adult Center Event Holds Peace Lesson for U.N.

May 27, 1987  l  PHILl SNEIDERMAN, Daily News Stall Writer

GRANADA HILLS -- Principal Allan Platt often wishes world leaders got along as well as the international students who attend Rinaldi Adult Center, a former elementary campus where adult classes are now offered.
   "We have students from 40 different countries at the Rinaldi Adult Center." Platt said.  "It's really a small United Nations. They attend on a daily basis and get along beautifully.
   "If the world's leaders got along as well as these studentsdo, we'd be fine." he added.
   The Rinaldi students had a chance last week to demonstrate this sense of harmony and to share their varied backgrounds at the school's annual International Day.
   The festival attracted hundreds of students, family members and friends from many Valley communities.
   Platt said the event started as a simple open house program four years ago. At first, the international students used it as an occasion to share ethnic foods and information about their home nations.
   "It literally grew from there," the principal said.  "People want to know about other cultures."
   At last week's elaborate International Fair, the students turned classrooms into colorful exhibits spotlighting their homelands. They also wore traditional clothing from their native countries.
   In one room, the Japanese display featured a tea ceremony. Chinatsu Kume of Tokyo was one of the students who created a floral arrangement for the exhibit.
   Kume said she has been attending the Rinaldi center for eight months while living in Northridge.
   Asked her reasons for enrolling, she said, "Because i want to learn English and I want to make lots of friends. I want to stay(in the United States) for a long time -- forever, I hope."
   Kume said she may eventually work for her father, who has a business in San Francisco.
   Near the Japanese display, a Mexico-Central America room featured blankets, flags, newspapers and hats.
   Other rooms were filled with photographs, pottery, coins, and other items from nations such as Thailand, Indonesia, France, Iran, Korea and China.
   Outdoor entertainment was provided by a musical ensemble from the Las Palmas Senior Citizens Center in San Fernando and the Pacoima Senior Citizens Center.
   At midmorning, a standing-room-only crowd pressed into the school's auditorium to view an international entertainment program presented by the Rinaldi students.
  The program featured singing and dancing from China, Mexico, Iran, Japan, South America, Korea and Arabic countries.
   Platt said teh Granada Hills campus is a branch of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Kennedy-San Fernando Adult School.  Among the 2,500 adults who attend Kennedy-San Fernando each term, about 120 are international students who are in the United States on a visa program.
   "Most of the visa students are here to sharpen their English skills."  He said. "They're probably working toward entering a college or university." he said.
   Platt said these students attend classes with new residents of the United States who also are learning to speak and read English.
   The principal said teh Rinaldi center includes students from Israel and Arab nations and from Iran and Iraq. Yet he insisted that the international tensions of their homelands do not spill over into the class rooms.
   "There are discussions," he said. "But it's always ona rational basis."

©Copyright 1987 Daily News

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