8/23/2020 · Friday, August 21-Sunday, August 23, 2020 6 p.m. The Ethnic Enrichment Festival is going virtual this year! Enjoy food, music, crafts and dance from more than 30 local cultural groups on August 21-23 via the Ethnic Enrichment Commission’s Facebook page. More>>, ETHNIC ENRICHMENT FESTIVAL , Kansas City, UPDATE II: In lieu of the in-person Ethnic Enrichment Festival , we will be hosting a Virtual Ethnic Festival . Watch it HERE.. UPDATE: The 2020 Ethnic Enrichment Festival has been cancelled due to health safety concerns regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Please stay tuned as our commission will continue finding ways to promote diversity in the Kansas City area.
See Who’s Going to Kansas City Ethnic Enrichment Festival 2021 in Kansas City, MO! Presented by the Ethnic Enrichment Commission, the Kansas City Ethnic Enrichment Festival is dedicated to the celebration of cultural diversity in the Kansas City community. As the organization’s largest event, the festival serves as a way for locals to explore different cultural traditions, arts…
Presented by the Ethnic Enrichment Commission, the Kansas City Ethnic Enrichment Festival is dedicated to the celebration of cultural diversity in the Kansas City community. As the organization’s largest event, the festival serves as a way for locals to explore different cultural traditions, arts and cuisine over the course of a three-day affair.
8/18/2020 · Join us as we celebrate all the wonderful cultures that make Kansas City a wonderful and diverse place to call home. Due to COVID-19, the 2020 Ethnic Enrichment Festival is going virtual! The Virtual Ethnic Festival Shows will start each night at 6 p.m. on Friday, August 21, Saturday, August 22 and Sunday, August 23. Attendance is FREE!, Way back around 1980, a little annual event started up to celebrate the rich diversity found in Kansas City. We are sure that the organizers of this festival were hopeful that it would continue, but wonder if they could have imagined that it would achieve its current level of success. Here we are 39 years later, and the Kansas City Ethnic Enrichment Festival is still going strong.
As Kansas City prepared to celebrate the U. S. Bicentennial in 1976, an idea was born which eventually led to the appointment of the Mayor’s Ethnic Enrichment Commission. In order to focus public attention on the area’s rich cultural heritage, Charles B. Wheeler, Mayor of Kansas City during the Bicentennial year, formed the Ethnic Heritage …
