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Fall Folk Festival Is Multicultural Oasis

Joyce Seita Pulei, 24, a member of a Maasai dance troupe, Osotua Le Keekonyokie, performs, November 20, 2010 at the Spokane Fall Folk Festival at Spokane Community College in Spokane, Wash.  A group of three shared their traditions and culture through song, dance and storytelling. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
Joyce Seita Pulei, 24, a member of a Maasai dance troupe, Osotua Le Keekonyokie, performs, November 20, 2010 at the Spokane Fall Folk Festival at Spokane Community College in Spokane, Wash. A group of three shared their traditions and culture through song, dance and storytelling. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

Joyce Seita Pulei, 24, a member of a Maasai dance troupe, Osotua Le Keekonyokie, performs at the Spokane Fall Folk Festival at Spokane Community College in Spokane Saturday.  A group of three shared their traditions and culture through song, dance and storytelling. Chelsea Bannach SR story here. (SR photo: Dan Pelle)

Diversity is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Spokane. For those who think it’s a culturally desolate place, the Fall Folk Festival is a multicultural oasis. The 15th Annual Fall Folk Festival, presented by the Spokane Folklore Society is showcasing a cultural cornucopia of traditional music, dancing and crafts from around the world this weekend.

Question: Would you like to see the Inland Northwest become more diverse culturally? Stay the same as now? Or become less diverse?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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