Date: February 5th 2010

Contact: Anne Marie Weiss-Armush
DFW International Community Alliance
972-965-5727
Annemarieweiss@dfwinternational.org
www.dfwinternational.org/Carnaval

DFW Interantional Community Alliance presents
CARNAVAL for HAITI
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Hyatt Regency DFW Airport - Terminal C
free parking and entry (bring ticket in for validation, don't use Tolltag)
8:30 - 2 am
$20 per person, ages 18 and older
$25 at the door
Purchase tickets by calling 972-661-2764 or through website
www.dfwinternational.org/

Go clubbing with DFW International friends and celebrate one of the world's most colorful traditions - while fundraising for the victims of the Haiti disaster! Explore the rhythms and dances of Brazil, the Caribbean and the world.......expressions of a shared heartbeat that unites us all.

CARNAVAL for Haiti is a global celebration planned by and for the international community, to benefit the victims of the Haiti disaster. Our seven DJs are from Kenya, Morocco, USA, Russia, India, Brazil, and Mexico!  We will open with a Parade of Nations and close with a Global Drum Circle. Live drumming in the batucada rhythm will accompany the Passarela di Carnaval (Rio de Janeiro style procession) in which each of our 40 participating cultures will be featured, including Brazil, Haiti , USA (New Orleans style Mardi Gras). The evening's program lineup can be viewed at www.dfwinternational.org/Carnaval/ and will include a Carnival Costume contest, Arabic dance competition, samba lessons, tarot card readers, henna / mehndi and body painting, and exciting participatory experiences such as the Nigerian Abiba hip shimmy dance. Prizes will be giv en for the best carnaval costumes, and mini dance lessons for cumbia, merengue, salsa, and tango will be offered. CARNAVAL for Haiti is sponsored by Al Dia, Univision, and Univision radio.

DFW International Community Alliance is the portal for global North Texas, a network of 1,600 of the region’s ethnic and internationally-focused civic, community and educational organizations. The organization promotes and links North Texas ethnic and immigrant groups through its website and cultural calendar at www.dfwinternational.org, that receives two to three million hits a month. For more details about the organization, see the media page HERE.

Our community partners for the International Carnaval Dance party are:

• Albanian American Heritage Center
• Ayubu Kamau African Queens and Kings
• Art of Bellydance by Sa'diyya
• Anisa Belly Dance
• Asociacion Colombiana del Metroplex
• Asociacion Culturan Dominicana DFW
• Association of Ivoirians in Texas<
• Bangladesh Association of North Texas (BANT)
• Brazilian Community of DFW
• Bulgarian American Cultural Center
• Caribbean Association of Texas
• Casa Ciudad de Mexico
• Crescent Moon Belly Dance Studio
• Dallas Capoeira (Brazil)
• Dallas Kismet Stage Events
• Daniel de Cordoba Bailes Espanoles
• Danish American Society
• From the Ends of the Earth
• India Association of North Texas
• Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior (IME)
• Indonesian Community of DFW
• Ivory Coast Association
• Ka Pa Hula O Manulani (Polynesia)
• Lita T. Cruz Productions (Philippines)
• The Mexico Institute
• MAPLE (Peru)
• Marco Polo WorldFoundation
• Moonlady News
• Moroccan North Texas Association
• Mutual Assistance Assn for the Ethiopian Community
• Network of Indian Professionals (NETIP)
• N T Asian American Cultural Association
• Nigerian Women's Association
• Pakistani Society of North Texas
• Parnership Walk
• Polish-American Foundation of Texas
• Richland College
• Russian Bayna
• RussianTexas.Com
• SalsaDallas.Com
• Salvadorian American Association
• Samba Dallas (Brazil)
• Sisters of Sierra Leone
• Sol Studio Art (Brazil)
• Sudanese American Assn of NT
• Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce
• Tangueros de Dallas
• Texas Kenyan Community Organization
• The Dock Bookstore (African American)
• The Wooden Spoon (Scandinavia)
• Tropikal Productions (Caribbean)
• TURANT (Turkey)
• Venezuelan community
• Young Ibgo Association (Nigeria)
• You're The Man Productions
• Young African Professionals