Who's in the Demonstration Area?
Minnesota Parkour – origin: France
Chad Zwadlo, owner and head instructor of Fight or Flight Academy, and several fellow Minnesota Parkour members will provide several performances and a workshop. Chad has 12 years experience and a rank of second degree black belt in American Freestyle Karate, six years of Karate instruction experience at Red Dragon Academy and six years of training in parkour and freerunning. He has been teaching an extremely successful freerunning program at Gleason's Gymnastics School for the last 3 years.
Chad is one of the founding members of the MNPK (Minnesota Parkour) community and is the official Minnesota contact of americanparkour.com, the largest parkour website in the world with over 100,000 visitors a month. He is currently a sponsored athlete of Team Sanjuu professional freerunning team, Tumblemonster Stunt team, and Open Air stunt team. Chad has also worked on commercials, television, and movie stunts.
Richard Mindykowski – origin: Native American
Dick Mindykowski, a Lac Courte Oreilles member, creates walking sticks, dancing staffs, tomahawks, turtle rattles, shields, dream catchers and other types of art using materials proffered from the woods. He traps furbearers, harvests tree branches and gathers stones polished by wind and water.
All of earth's four orders find representation in his artwork. The stones, tree branches and furs represent the first three orders—physical, plant and animal worlds. Dick's essence represents the last order, the human world. Upon each piece, he bestows a sense of his own meaning and passion.
For items such as walking sticks, or staffs, his artistry begins with the tree branches. He tends to use wiigwaasi-mitig (paper birch), azaadii (aspen), and his favorite, wadoop (speckled alder). Wadoop, he says, "decorates itself with its own sap." Once he used giizhik (cedar), a special gift from his brother.
He sells his artwork at powwows, particularly the Bear River Powwow at Lac du Flambeau. Also at Lac du Flambeau, he submitted his artwork for competition in the 2007 Midwest Native American Art Market and won first place.
Weaving – Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen is a graduate from Mankato State University with a Bachelor of Science in Art Education and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with the main focus being in studio arts. Her major area of study was in weaving with a minor in jewelry. She has taught adult weave classes at the Owatonna Art Center and also to the Owatonna Area Christian Home Educators (OACHE) children. Leslie has been weaving for twenty-five years and enjoys sharing her knowledge about weaving with others, along with seeing what kind of weavings they can come up with too.
Shakun Maheshwari – Rangoli from India
There are many examples of folk art in India: richly embroidered and dyed clothing, intricate silver and gold, handmade jewelry, earthenware, tapestries, basketry, rangoli (floor art), and mehandi (henna). Designs, methods, and names can vary from region to region. Designs are stylized and derived from nature, myths, animals, and religious stories. Rangoli is an art in which people create intricate designs on the floors of houses and temples and in entryways to bring good luck, peace, prosperity, and happiness into the home. Rangoli is executed freehand by applying colors (powdered rice, white limestone, chalk or flour) in a dry form or as a paste. There are many examples of folk art in India: richly embroidered and dyed clothing, intricate silver and gold, handmade jewelry, earthenware, tapestries, basketry, rangoli (floor art), and mehandi (henna). Designs, methods, and names can vary from region to region. Designs are stylized and derived from nature, myths, animals, and religious stories.
The artist's fingers serve a brush. In India, this floor art is temporary – often people create and redo designs as a daily routine. Certain intricate designs are created on special occasions such as weddings and religious festivals. The designs vary from region to region in India, and are called by different names: Alpana in Bengal, Kolam in South India, Rangoli in Maharastra, Sathia in Gujarat, and Mandana in Rajasthan.
We will be doing Rangoli patterns on paper with colored sand and glue. Young artists can take their creation home.
Learn More at www.shakuntaladesign.com
Hasse Petting Zoo: Pemberton, MN
The Mobile Petting Zoo includes about 20 - 30 animals in an enclosed, sheltered, walk-in pen where visitors can interact with animals from around the world. Our petting zoo features a variety of miniature and small breed farm animals including miniature ponies, miniature donkeys, sheep, goats, miniature pot-belly pigs, alpacas, bunnies, ducks, and chickens.
For more information, visit: www.hassefamily.com/
Sculpt-A-Culture
Various service organizations and individuals are invited to participate in a contest to create a sculpture of fresh produce, donated by Clinton Falls Farms, representing a country in the world. Groups will draw the name of their country at 9:00 a.m. at CulturFest and have from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. to create their sculpture. Participants of the festival will vote by making a donation to their choice of sculpture. The winner will be determined by the highest donation and proceeds will be awarded to this year’s community Thanksgiving dinner. Prizes of $75, $50 and $25 will be given for the top three winners. LouAnn Koupa, Eat Well Nutrition Center will be our moderator.
Register your group today!
Shelby Bucher – English Hunt Seat Riding Demonstration
Shelby is a local high school sophomore with a love of horses and English style riding. At CulturFest, Shelby will demonstrate jumping and English style riding etiquette. Additionally, Shelby will host a booth in the passport area explaining the history and skills involved in English style riding
Learn to Play Rugby
Representatives from the Faribault Bokspring Rugby Team will host a booth explaining the game of rugby and demonstrating.
