Cultural Heritage Fair

The PGO is hosting a "Cultural Heritage Fair" on Wednesday, May 23.  If you, your child(ren), or someone you know can share your/their talent, skills, or treasures with the Fort River community to showcase a cultural heritage, be it generationally inherited or just recently adopted, please contact Reiko Sono, via email (rsono@asianlan.umass.edu).

We welcome any genre, from music and dance to martial arts, craft, etc, at any skill levels.  Please help us make this event interesting, educational, and, most importantly, FUN!

Thanks for International Fair

Thank you to all the people who made last week's International Fair a huge success! Delicious food, impressive performances, and great community!

A special thank you goes to Rebecca Fricke for coordinating this event and the performances.

Shout outs also go to: Liz Larson, Paula Mangiaratti, FR custodial staff, teachers who attended, Michele Spirko, the performers - the kids and the adults who helped, parents who came early and stayed late to help with set-up and clean-up.

And remember, we are looking for someone to step up and coordinate this event next year as Rebecca will be unable. Please contact Rebecca at rebfricke@gmail.com or Pam Rietkerk at pam.fortriver@gmail.com if you are interested.

International Fair

The International Fair is Coming Soon and We Need Your Help!

Don't forget that the International Fair is coming on Friday, May 13th from 5:30-7:30pm.

This fun event will include a potluck meal featuring delicious international dishes, games, and multicultural creative arts and performances.

You will be contacted shortly by your room parent with more information about how you can help make this event a success.

Also, we are still looking for talent (singers, dancers and musicians)  to perform during the fair.  Please contact Rebecca Fricke at 253-7914 or rebfricke@gmail.com if you are interested!

Bring Your Talent to the International Fair

The Fort River International Committee is looking for singers, dancers and musicians to perform on the evening of May 13th at the Second Annual International Fair.  Please contact Rebecca Fricke at 253-7914 or rebfricke@gmail.com.

Talent Needed for the International Fair

The Fort River International Committee is looking for singers, dancers and musicians to perform on the evening of May 13th at the Second Annual International Fair.  Please contact Rebecca Fricke at 253-7914 or rebfricke@gmail.com.

International Fair 2010--Slideshow

International Fair 2010

Parent Council wishes to thank Rebecca Fricke and Chris Felton for organizing the first ever Fort River International Fair!

Rebecca sends the following notice:

Thank you for making the International Fair a success! The food was wonderful and the help was much appreciated. Big thanks to the room parents who put out the news to their families, I think the extra emails and phone calls helped spread the word. We had parents and kids willing to set up, keep things organized and clean up, not to mention the wonderful performances and the display tables! Hopefully this will be the first of many Fort River Internationals! If you have ideas on how to make this even bigger and better please sign up to help next year!

For those of you who left dishes and utensils behind - I took what I could find and those things (spoons, bowls, plates, pot holders) are now being held at the FR office.

International Fair: Tomorrow Night!!

Fort River International Fair

Come celebrate spring and the cultures of students, teachers, staff, and families
that make up our school community!

Friday, May 14

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Fort River Playground

Many of our own Fort River students will be performing at Friday's International Fair! 

Come out to enjoy community; good food; Cambodian, Indian, and Irish Dance; Indonesian instruments and puppets; and Smith House, the band of four of our 6th graders. 

Room parents from each class should have you about food donations for the potluck. There are also some links to individual class online sign-ups at the top-right hand column of this website.

PLEASE NOTE: Parent Council is requesting that families bring in food donations to the fair.  Parent Council will provide paper goods and will be offering drinks for sale!  

Sign-up sheets have mistakenly asked for drinks and paper goods--we apologize for the mix-up!!

Fort River International Fair

Join in the…

Fort River International Fair

Come celebrate spring and the cultures of students, teachers, staff, and families that make up our school community!

Friday, May 14

(rain date Friday, May 21)

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Fort River Playground

• international potluck
• games from around the world
• multicultural creative arts and performances

Can you help at the fair?  Many hands make light work…Contact Rebecca Fricke by April 30 : fricke@crocker.com.

Share your talents in music, dance, poetry, etc. from around the world!
Contact Chris Felton by April 30:  cmfelton@honors.umass.edu

Room parents from each class will be contacting you about food donations for the potluck. There are also some links to individual class online sign-ups at the top-right hand column of this website.

PLEASE NOTE: Parent Council is requesting that families bring in food donations to the fair.  PC will provide paper goods and will be offering drinks for sale!  

Sign-up sheets have mistakenly asked for drinks and paper goods--we apologize for the mix-up!!

Fort River International Fair

Join in the…

Fort River
International Fair!

Come celebrate spring and the cultures of students, teachers, staff, and families that make up our school community!

Friday, May 14

(rain date Friday, May 21)

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Fort River Playground

• international potluck
• games from around the world
• multicultural creative arts and performances

 

Let’s make this gathering a wonderful reflection of our community!

 Can you help at the fair?  Many hands make light work…

 Contact Rebecca Fricke by April 30 : fricke@crocker.com

Share your talents in music, dance, poetry, etc. from around the world!

 Contact Chris Felton by April 30:  cmfelton@honors.umass.edu