Sunday, August 13, 2006

Folkorama - Winnipeg, Manitoba - a tribute to the Pavilion Coordinators


The photo above shows Bonnie and me with the Paraguay Pavilion Coordinator Nena Ortega and Ambassador Juan Aveiro. Nena did an incredible job this year in bringing many volunteeers together to put on the Paraguay Pavilion. I want to say a public thank you to Nena and to all the other pavilion coordinators. You have all done an extraordinary job.

Here is a list of the pavilion coordinators for the first week of Folklorama:
Africa/Caribbean Pavilion - Emaline Jackson
Alpine Pavilion - Fred Oberbuchner
Casa do Minho Portuguese Pavilion - Christina Neves
Chilean Pavilion - Jose Astorga
Chinese Pavilion - Philip Chang
Cuban Pavilion - Ramon Rancana
El Salvador Pavilion - Kattia Melgar
First Nations Pavilion - Greg McIvor
Greek Islands Pavilion - George Sotiriadis
Indo-Tropical Paradise Pavilion - Ganesh Kenneth
Ireland Irish Pavilion - Dale Laird
Italian Pavilion - Tony Chiarelli
Japanese Pavilion - David Murata
Paraguay: "The Heart of South America" Pavilion - Nena Ortega
Philippine Pavilion Nayong Pilipino - Lito Tarac
Russian Pavilion - Sofia Barklon
Serbian Pavilion "Beograd" - George Dragojevic
Slovenija Pavilion - Stan Majowski
Tamil Pavilion - Mohamen Ismath
Ukraine-Kyiv Pavilion - Marusla Lubay
Warsaw-Poland Pavilion - Donata Praski