The Multicultural Center of Rhode Island, (Kingston Campus) sponsors World Voices World Visions 2005! Bring your fiddle, banjo, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, sitar, or drums for hands-on instructions. Practice your singing, songwriting, dancing, cloth-making, and visual arts. Masankho will be leading drumming and dance circles, and he and Diane will be weaving InterPlay throughout the conference as a form for cross-cultural dialogue and bridge-building. There are full days and full evenings with a wide variety of offerings, including a WORLD VILLAGE track for children ages 5-12 WORLD ARTS- Besides the extensive American and Celtic music and dance programs, the camp will also offer an array of workshops addressing diverse traditions of music, dance, and the creative arts from Cambodia, Nigeria, India, Cape Verde and Guatemala, along with a capstone public dialogue intended to knit together the themes of the camp. WORLD LEARNING for Teachers The camp will also offer two classes for graduate students as well as elementary and secondary teachers who wish to more effectively understand and incorporate folk music into their classroom practice. Through the University of Rhode Island School of Education, either of these classes can be taken for graduate course credit. The week ends with a great Grand Concert on the evening of Friday, July 22 featuring the entire faculty at 7pm. WVWV MISSION--World Voices, World Visions is designed to build understanding and respect for people and cultures around the world through participation in and exposure to the folk arts, public dialogue, study and reflection."The mission of World Voices, World Visions is to help participants understand what it means to be a global citizen and to develop a sense of responsibility for each other beyond the limits of family and nation," says Melvin Wade, director of the Multicultural Center. "The folk arts allow us to understand our own identities; and as we become more secure in our own identities we can become influenced by others and build bridges." The arts are a way to help bridge cultures and to explore our own identities. Actually practicing the arts of other cultures narrows the distance between cultures and helps us understand the roots of our identities." Melvin Wade, Director, URI Multicultural Center for more information see the website at http://www.uri.edu/mcc/WorldVoicesWorldVisions/2005/ or contact Diane Ault at www.interplaytn.org, or Masankho at www.ucandanc.org