First Annual Asian-American Cultural Festival of Long Island

Long Island, New York, December, 2006 - There's excitement in the air as the first annual Asian-American Cultural Festival of Long Island, an event that will unite Asian-Americans and non-Asians from Nassau and Suffolk for cultural sharing festivities, begins to crystallize. The planning committee has secured the spacious Stony Brook Student Activity Center as the site for the festival and Sunday, March 11th, 2007 as its date.

"I am so pleased to see a dream fulfilled," says Stella Shieh, organizer of the event and member of the Suffolk County Asian-American Advisory Board. "This is a milestone for all the members of the LI Asian community, as we reach out to one another and to non-Asians as well to share our traditions with each other and celebrate diversity."

The festival, under the auspices of Chinese Cultural Programs, Inc., a 501c3 not-for-profit organization based in Manhattan and Long Island, will begin at 1PM with family-oriented activities and continue until 5 when there will be a classical stage performance, VIP awards ceremony, buffet dinner and raffle drawing. Corporate sponsors are welcome to participate, as there are several levels of sponsorship available. Groups who will be engaged in the event include the Suffolk County Office of Minority Affairs and the Asian-American Advisory Board, the Taiwanese-American Association on LI, the Asian-Pacific American Association of Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Tzu-Chi Foundation, the Charles B. Wang Center, the Korean-American Association of LI, the Shanti Fund, the Chinese-American Association of Suffolk, the Chinese Cultural Association of LI, the Chinese-American Association of North Hempstead, Chinese Cultural Programs, Inc, The Japan Center at Stony Brook, The Taiwanese Students Association at Stony Brook University, The Taiwanese Graduate Students Association at Stony Brook University, Filipino-American Community of Long Island, Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office In New York, Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission, R.O.C. Taiwan, and The Center for Chinese Learning at Stony Brook .