Come together with the communities and cultures across Columbus at the B.R.E.A.D! Festival this fall.
Dublin Arts Council will present the third multicultural B.R.E.A.D! Festival of arts and community in Coffman Park on Sunday, October 14, 2018 from 12 to 9 p.m. The festival is free, and is designed to provide education and promote tolerance in the extended community through shared social and cultural experiences. Festival activities embrace the B.R.E.A.D. acronym: Bake, Reconnect, Educate, make Art & celebrate Diversity.
Activities will include community booths, a full day of cultural music and dance, hands-on art making, international cuisine, bread vendors, food trucks, kids’ crafts, a fair trade global marketplace and more. Get creative and join in the community sand art project.
Local cultural groups will be sharing their heritage and traditions with unique and interesting presentations. You’ll sample traditional foods, participate in cultural activities and demonstrations, learn fun facts, and garner a better understand of the diversity around you.
A major attraction of the festival is The Mystical Arts of Tibet featuring the Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery constructing a Mandala Sand Painting in the Coffman Park Pavilion from Oct. 10 through Oct. 14. Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place in this spiritual art form in order to purify and heal the environment and its inhabitants. The public is invited to an opening ceremony including chants, music and mantra recitation to consecrate the site on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 12 p.m. You may also visit the Pavilion during the construction to watch the monks at work, Oct. 10 from 12 to 6 p.m., Oct. 11-13 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Oct. 14 during the B.R.E.A.D! Festival from 12 to 9 p.m.
The mandala is dismantled shortly after its conclusion, symbolizing impermanence and change. The closing ceremony is Sunday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m., and includes disbursement of sand to members of the audience as blessings, and a procession with dispersal of the mandala sand into a nearby stream to share the healing energies of the mandala throughout the world. The dispersal practice is environmentally safe, according to the EPA.
Coffman Park, 5200 Emerald Parkway, Dublin, Ohio
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