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Media Advisory: Embry-Riddle Celebrates Asian Heritage Month

EVENT
Kim Hardiman will be visiting Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus in celebration of Asian Heritage Month to perform a series of traditional Chinese dances. Her dances will include:

The Fan Dance – Symbolizing happiness
The Wushu Fan Dance – A martial arts dance
The Long Red Ribbon Dance – Symbolizing rain
The difficult Double Spears Dance – A Peking Opera martial art dance

A lecture and a question-and-answer session will follow the performance. Topics will include the history of the Year of the Ox; the origin of Chinese New Year; facts about the Chinese astrology calendar; and the use of animal symbolism in Asian culture.

Embry-Riddle students from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam will discuss their traditional celebrations.

This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the University Office of Diversity Initiatives.

WHEN
7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30, 2009

WHERE
Willie Miller Instructional Center Auditorium
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The University educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs, with accreditation pending for Embry-Riddle’s first doctoral programs, in Aviation and in Engineering Physics. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.