World Village is A community-powered event celebrating arts and culture and Global Lounge's largest fundraiser each year!

Join us for World Village 2024 as Boise’s vibrant multi-national community comes together to celebrate art, culture, music, films, and people!

World Village gives people an opportunity to listen, watch, learn, feel and interact while learning and teaching cultural aspects of Idaho’s diverse heritage. Through art workshops people will learn characters, words and symbols that reflect cultural heritage. Through dance workshops people will learn elements of movement that symbolize important events in other cultures, such as weddings, rites of passage, cultural celebrations and more.

In the creation of music, people will first learn the purpose and history of the instruments and rhythms that enlist call and response interactions of musicians and also draw people together to listen, dance or play as they have done for thousands of years. These hands-on activities help us to transcend language barriers and more quickly integrate newer members of the community, especially those who have relocated from other countries.

Thursday September 26, 2024 @ 6:00pm
In Partnership with Boise State University Center for Educational Opportunities Presents:
World Village at BSU Student Union Building / Forum Room
‍The Stone House in The Canyon: Mary Hallock Foote and a Vision of a Home in the WestPresented by Stacey Guill PhD and Rochelle Smith.
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Friday 27th Performances at Cecil D. Andrus Park:
‍Biotzetik Basque Choir 4:00 - 4:20 PM / Beats and Bones Women's  Healing Choir 4:25 - 4:45PM / Starbelly Dance Group 4:50 - 5:10PM / Dr. Keith & J-BED 5:15 - 6:00PM / Flamenco Idaho: (Director  Kelli Brown) 6:05 - 6:25PM / SunSmith 6:30 - 7:15PM / Tlecoatl Aztec  Dancers 7:20 - 7:40PM / Las Guaracheras 7:45 - 9:15 PM

‍At Treefort Music Hall: LEE FIELDS + Mungo and Kimboo as part of World Village Festival 2024 ~ click for tickets.
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Saturday 28th Performances at Cecil D. Andrus Park:
Killarney Irish Dance Company 10:00 - 10:20AM / Scandi Folk Boise 10:25 -10:45AM / Puerto Rican Dance Group 10:50 -11:10AM / Sneha Cherussery 11:25 - 11:45AM / Makatas 11:50AM - 12:10PM / Ballet Folklorico Yareth de Idaho 12:15 - 12:30PM / Toraâdan 12:35 - 1:05PM / Boise Traditional Chinese Dance Group 1:10 - 1:40PM / Kawa Taiko 1:45 - 2:15PM / The Moody Jews of Boise 2:20 - 3:05PM / Indo Idaho 3:10 - 3:35PM / Fashion Show 4:05 - 4:35PM / Odissi Dance 4:40 - 4:50 PM / Marimba Boise 4:55 - 5:25 PM / Flamenco Laishy 5:30 - 6:00PM / Danza Azteca Tonatiuh 6:05 - 6:35PM / Lobo Lara 6:40 - 7:25PM / Ballet Folklorico Mexico Lindo 7:30 - 8:00PM / The Madcap Laughs 8:05 - 8:50PM / Parlor Greens 9:00 - 10:30PM