DID YOU MISS OUR SEPT 25 OPENING FESTIVAL OR DASHAIN CELEBRATED BY OUR GREENSBORO BHUTANESE FRIENDS? DON’T WORRY, WE CELEBRATE DASHAIN OVER MANY DAYS!
GREENSBORO, HIGH POINT & PIEDMONT COMMUNITIES, NORTH CAROLINA USA
NEXT EVENT: SATURDAY, OCT 8
THE UNITED Nepalese and Bhutanese communities of the Triad announce United Dashain Festival: Victory of Goodness, the most important cultural celebration of the year shared by both communities. This year's Dashain is about building strong families and communities!
Coming on Oct. 8! International soccer teams will engage in friendly competition in the spirit of community unity at the Greensboro city soccer field near the NC National Guard Armory (On Naco Road past Hairston Middle and Falkener Elementary Schools). Starts 10 AM.Come root for us! The event is free and open to the public.
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To Soccer Tournament Saturday, Oct 8, starts 10 AM
City Soccer Field (near the NC National Guard Armory on Franklin Blvd). From Franklin Blvd, turn left onto 3931 Naco Road Greensboro, NC 27401 and go past Hairston Middle and Falkener Elementary Schools. On the right will be Guilford County School Maintenance Yards. Turn left into the soccer parking field.
If you go to 4149 Naco Road, you've gone too far!
If you go to 4149 Naco Road, you've gone too far!
On Saturday, October 1, our Bhutanese Greensboro friends organized an event to celebrate Dashain, one of the biggest festivals of the Bhutanese diaspora at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, 3910 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro, NC 27405.On Sunday, September 25, Dashain food, music and dance was opened to everyone at Greensboro's Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center.
This first-time event succeeded beyond our expectations, with community members and guests coming from across the Piedmont. More than four hundred attended throughout the day. Everyone participated by organizing committees, transporting neighbors, helping in the kitchen or performing onstage. Families brought potluck dishes to complement the work of the food committee. Whether rich or poor, refugee or immigrant, Bhutanese or Nepalese, everyone contributed.
Members of the Triad Nepalese Community Center showed their strong support of a united Dashain celebration through their attendance and program participation.
When the jokes, songs, and dance began every laughed and clapped together.
United Dashain is about bringing family and community together. Dashain is the greatest festival of the Nepalese diaspora which includes Bhutanese and Nepalese people living here in the Triad. It is celebrated in Nepal and all over the world by people of Nepalese origin. Dashain brings all people together whether they are near or far from their homeland and unites them as one. It is a holiday of reconciliation and forgiveness. It enables families and communities to resolve past disagreements and differences and to end conflicts. Dashain represents the victory of good over evil.
Learn about our culture and people. Share with us. The Nepalese and Bhutanese communities represent about one thousand immigrants and refugees in the Triad area. Nepal and Bhutan are mountainous states astride the famed Himalayas.
Want to know more? Please call 336-707-0592
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