2024 Booth Guidelines
Booth Decorations and Activities
As you plan your booth, please keep in mind the event mission—to support the sharing,
celebration, and appreciation of diverse cultural backgrounds, customs, and experiences;
and to foster inclusivity along with a climate of respect and appreciation of differences
through music, dance, art, stories, traditional dress, and educational activities
and displays.
All booths must include:
- Decorations
- Every booth should be decorated with culturally appropriate materials. Emphasis should
be on sharing and celebrating culture. Booths may not criticize or attack one another
or target other students, cultures, countries, political groups, or religions.
- Cultural decorations you may want to consider for inclusion in your booth may include
flags, maps, photographs, posters, tapestries, cultural items, educational displays,
cultural games, activities, music, and videos.
- Booth attendants may want to consider dressing in traditional cultural attire.
- Education and Interaction
- Booths should seek to share cultural knowledge and/or experiences and include interactive
activities for people who visit your booth.
- For example, a booth may choose to lead a “how-to” demonstration of specific cultural
skills or customs or lead a specific interactive activity. Depending on the time required
for each demonstration, you may want to develop a demonstration schedule.
- Interactive activities include explaining cultural decorations, items, food, and/or
dress; teaching basic greetings and phrases in your native language, writing names
in native languages/characters; teaching traditional dance steps, leading a folk arts/crafts
demonstration, reading/telling of cultural/traditional story; playing traditional
games.
Be creative and share a part of your world and experiences with others!
You may also choose to include:
- Music
- Music must be played at a respectful level to not disrupt neighboring booths or performances.
Lyrics must be non-offensive, and respectful of diversity.
Booth Supplies
Booth organizers are expected to bring their own decorations and decorating supplies.
This includes—scotch tape, masking tape, and/or painter’s tape, pens, markers, scissors,
tablecloths, balloons, streamers, cultural items, displays, activities, extension
cords, and if you will feature videos or music, you must bring your own, laptops,
mp3 players, and/or speakers. You may only utilize adhesives on brick walls (not painted
walls or wood); the use of tacks, nails, or glitter is prohibited.
Booth Policies
- Booth organizers must by set up by 10:45 am on the day of the event.
- Booth organizers must check-in with the Cultural Fair Committee upon arrival.
- Booths must have at least one representative present at the booth to engage with event
attendees for the event.
- Your booth's clean-up will begin immediately at 1 PM. Booths must be cleaned up and
checked out by the Cultural Fair Committee by 2 pm.
- All booth/exhibit displays and activities must be conducted inside the space assigned
to you.
- Candles and other flammable objects may not be utilized.
- Booths may not showcase or use weapons, ammunition, explosives, fireworks, or other
objects designed or used to inflict injury or damage while on campus premises, even
if the individual possesses a valid concealed weapon permit or other lawful permission
to carry a weapon.
- No alcohol is permitted at any time.
- No food is allowed, but we encourage you to share recipes.
