北卡三城地区首届亚洲美食文化节11月14日登场 十城镇响应支持目标吸引三千人
位于美国北卡罗来纳州吉尔福德县科尔法克斯，首届三城亚洲美食与文化节将于11月14日星期六上午10时至下午5时，在罗伯特·G·肖皮特蒙德三城农贸市场举行。
皮特蒙德三城地区包括 Winston-Salem、Greensboro 和高点，整个都市圈约有170万人口，华人相对分散。这场由华人主导推动的文化活动尚未开幕就已获得广泛响应：地区内已有10个城镇参与响应或支持，其中7个城镇已宣布将11月14日定为“亚洲美食与文化日”，另有3个城镇计划在11月10日和12日分别提交市议会讨论表决。
组委会提出的目标是吸引3000人以上参加首届活动，餐饮摊位报名已经结束。活动内容包括亚洲美食、文化演出、传统乐器体验、亲子互动以及社区与商业展示，来自纽约的京剧武生名家吕锁森与夫人、中国戏曲学院音乐系副教授程世君将联袂登台。
组委会表示，希望把美食节办成一个跨越三城边界、由华人积极推动、各族裔共同参与的长期文化品牌，为当地华人及亚裔社区建立一个持续走向美国主流社会的公共平台。（来源：首届三城亚洲美食与文化节组委会）
Inaugural Piedmont Triad Asian Food & Culture Festival Opens November 14 in North Carolina, With Ten Towns Responding and a Goal of 3,000 Attendees
In Colfax, Guilford County, North Carolina, the inaugural Triad Asian Food & Culture Festival will be held on Saturday, November 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Robert G. Shaw Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.
The Piedmont Triad region comprises Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point, with a metropolitan population of about 1.7 million and a relatively dispersed Chinese community. Led and driven by the local Chinese community, the cultural event has drawn a broad response before it even opens: ten towns in the region are participating or offering support, seven of them have proclaimed November 14 as 'Asian Food & Culture Day,' and three more planned to bring the matter before their city councils on November 10 and 12.
The organizing committee aims to attract more than 3,000 people to the first festival, and food vendor registration has closed. The program includes Asian food, cultural performances, hands-on traditional instrument experiences, family activities, and community and business exhibits. Lü Suosen, a noted Peking opera wusheng performer from New York, and his wife Cheng Shijun, an associate professor in the Music Department of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, will perform together.
The committee said it hopes to build the festival into a lasting cultural brand that crosses the three cities' boundaries, is actively promoted by the Chinese community and shared by all ethnic groups, giving the local Chinese and Asian communities a continuing public platform for engaging mainstream American society. (Source: Triad Asian Food & Culture Festival Organizing Committee)
来源：首届三城亚洲美食与文化节组委会
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图片来源：图：活动场地 Robert G. Shaw 皮特蒙德三城农贸市场的入口标识。Greensboro, NC 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Entrance sign of the Robert G. Shaw Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, the festival venue. By Greensboro, NC, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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