FUISA held its vogue and expertise present on the McAlister Auditorium on Thursday night, November 7, 2024.
The annual worldwide vogue present hosted by the Furman College Worldwide Scholar Affiliation (FUISA) passed off the night of November 7 at McAlister Auditorium. The present has been a campus mainstay for greater than a decade.
Twenty-eight nations or territories had been represented: India, Cyprus, France, Vietnam, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Germany, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Chile, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Japan, Mongolia, Jammu Kashmir (territory ), Guatemala, Malawi, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, China, Turkey, Morocco, Nepal and Mexico.
“The purpose of this vogue is to rejoice the worldwide range of worldwide college students at Furman,” stated Dalmondeh “DD” Nayreau '25, president of FUISA. “This system featured a pattern of the worldwide pupil inhabitants, which presently numbers 170 college students representing 60 nations and 6 continents. “By the style present, members share part of their cultures with one another and with the remainder of the Furman group.”
Nayreau additionally stated the scholars hoped to take attendees “on a vogue journey around the globe and study concerning the significance of vogue (colours, materials or patterns) in numerous nations. Whether or not it’s the patterns of a Venezuelan gown, which represents the circle of life, the colours and patterns of the standard gown of the Bamileke ethnic group of Cameroon, which symbolizes royalty, peace and knowledge, or class and wealthy cultural heritage “Related to the Jamdani Saree and Panjabi of Bangladesh, we hope to increase folks's information of the probabilities that exist relating to world vogue past their very own origins.”
Some college students introduced greater than a colourful outfit. College students from Cyprus, Kazakhstan and Venezuela learn poetry and college students from France, Russia, China and Mongolia sang conventional songs. Different college students danced.
FUISA membership is open to your entire Furman campus, Nayreu stated. The aim of FUISA is to construct intercultural relationships by offering alternatives for worldwide college students to work together socially with one another and with American college students. “We use the voice of our group to advocate and help the wants of worldwide college students on the Furman campus and to lift consciousness about intercultural exchanges.”
FUISA additionally hosts the annual worldwide dance competition and the annual worldwide meals competition within the spring. Occasions, together with the style present, are organized by FUISA pupil leaders: Mridul Agrawal '27 (vice chairman), Ary Prera '27 (treasurer), Camila Vargas C. '26 (secretary), Vanessa Amasi '26 (artistic director) and Nayreau. “We additionally wholeheartedly respect the help obtained from the Scholar Variety Council and the Middle for Interpersonal Connection workers. FUISA can also be all the time open to collaborations throughout the Furman and Greenville communities,” Nayreau stated.