Nov. 25, 2003

VCU holds first Grace Street Festival

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By Malorie Burkett

The first Annual Grace Street Festival attracted an enthusiastic crowd from around the Richmond area to enjoy different foods, live stage performances, strolling musicians, artwork and crafts. The festival was hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University's new School of World Studies to celebrate the new school and the different cultures represented in the greater Richmond community.

Interrupting a good time at the festival for a picture are, from left: Dr. Napolean Peoples, director of multicultural student affairs, Steven Bowen, VCU graduate student and Dr. Martha Lou Green, associate dean of student affairs and assistant to the vice provost of student affairs and enrollment services.
Interrupting a good time at the festival for a picture are, from left: Dr. Napolean Peoples, director of multicultural student affairs, Steven Bowen, VCU graduate student and Dr. Martha Lou Green, associate dean of student affairs and assistant to the vice provost of student affairs and enrollment services.


Dancers from La Mezcla Que Baila of the Association of Hispanic Americans of Richmond performed a Peruvian dance at the festival.
Dancers from La Mezcla Que Baila of the Association of Hispanic Americans of Richmond performed a Peruvian dance at the festival.


Festival goers look over handicrafts being sold by Ten Thousand Villages, a shop and "alternative trading organization" from Richmond's Carytown neighborhood that donates proceeds to people in Third World countries.
Festival goers look over handicrafts being sold by Ten Thousand Villages, a shop and "alternative trading organization" from Richmond's Carytown neighborhood that donates proceeds to people in Third World countries.


Just a few of the more than 1,000 people who enjoyed the first annual Grace Street Festival.
Just a few of the more than 1,000 people who enjoyed the first annual Grace Street Festival.